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Автор: Girdler Allan
Название: Harley-Davidson Sportster: Sixty Years
Перевод названия: Алан Гирдлер: Шестьдесят лет с моделью Sportster от Харлей Дэвидсон
ISBN: 9780760352182
Издательство: Rockport/Rotovision
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ISBN-10: 0760352186
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 176
Вес: 1.16 кг.
Дата издания: 01.04.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 202 color & 4 b-w photos
Размер: 245 x 284 x 21
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Sixty years
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Go on a 60-year ride with Harley-Davidsons Sportster

Things got a little weird in the American motorcycle industry after World War II. People hungered for new motorcycles, buying just about everything manufacturers could build. But on rare occasions a manufacturer produced a machine that nobody wanted. Such was the case with the Harley-Davidson Model K. The Model K had most of the features buyers wanted in a modern machine, like hand-operated clutches, foot-operated shifters, and cool-running aluminum heads, but it lacked perhaps the most important technological upgrade: a modern overhead-valve valve-train design.

The Model K retained the antiquated side-valve design because of arcane AMA racing rules written when Harley-Davidson and Indian competed head-to-head on American racetracks, but by 1952 Indian was on its last legs. This should have made the Model K a massive sales success. What nobody counted on was the British bike invasion. Thanks to their modern overhead-valve engines, the lightweight British bikes humiliated the side-valve Harleys on the track and on the street. Upgrades to the Model K didnt help; Harley finally relented and introduced a new overhead-valve middleweight for the 1957 model year. Dubbed the Sportster, it was everything the Model K was not. More importantly, it was faster than the British competition. Thus began the Sportsters sixty-year reign.

Harley-Davidson Sportster: Sixty Years tells the complete Sportster story. Noted Sportster expert Allen Girdler covers all the bikes--the XLCH, Caf Racer, XR1000, XLX, 883, Iron, Forty-Eight, Seventy-Two, and Nightster--that have made the Sportster one of the most iconic motorcycles on earth.