- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks; First edition (May 14 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0760302294
- ISBN-13: 978-0760302293
- Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 20.8 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #718,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Coax maximum performance from your sportbike! Cycle World columnist and performance guru Kevin Cameron goes deep inside the world of power and speed, offering his insight on how systems work as well as how modifications and aftermarket trickery translate into more power and better handling on the street or at the track. Component by component, Cameron describes the secrets of speed in minute detail. Sportbike Performance Handbook is your key to building the perfect two-wheeled weapon!
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For a decade, Cameron’s bestselling Sportbike Performance Handbook has been helping readers and riders define performance improvement plans and put them into motion--building better, faster, more powerful bikes. This new edition does everything the first did, and more, bringing bikers up to date on the dramatic changes that have swept sportbike technology in the past ten years. It covers changes to fuel management, suspension, tire technology, brake systems and more. This is the essential tool for anyone looking to coax maximum performance from a sportbike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Just what I was looking for!,
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This review is from: Sportbike Performance Handbook (Paperback)
I received this book today. Gave it a quick look through and it seems to be just what I wanted. I don't want a book that says do this and that to your bike, I need something that give me the theory and lets me plan it myself. I have been building and restoring bikes for 5 years and basic performance is not a problem for me. I am building a CBR600 from the ground up this winter and need to know what to do and what not to do to keep it reliable, but add a good kick.This book seems to have lots of pics and drawings that explain how to tweak the entire bike to your needs. Goes far beyond bolt on and shows just about everything under the sun you could do. does talk about bolt on products for beginners though. Looking forward to reading the entire thing this weekend.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too Advanced for Beginners,
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This review is from: Sportbike Performance Handbook (Paperback)
Well, I was looking for something to read along with my new Clymer's guide, thinking that in addition to just the basics about my bike I'd be well served to understand performance issues. This book is probably GREAT for people planning track days, who have a lot of self-service experience under their belt, but for a beginner to the mechanics of motorcycles the information is SO advanced it's basically useless.Good stuff to learn, and I'm keeping the book because I figure by *next* year I'll be saving $$ for track days. Just too much for "all I wanted to know was how to gap my frikken plugs properly!" me. I give it 3 stars as what I read was fairly clear, and the diagrams did seem to accompany the text well enough for me to realize I was WAY OVER MY HEAD. ;)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't let the cover fool you,
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Despite the misleading cover, this is a wonderfully compiled book of all things related to how a motorcycle handles. I passed over this book several times because the cover made me think it was a book on how to do wheelies and stupid sportbike stunts. I could not have been more wrong. This is a must have book for anybody who likes to wrench on their motorcycle in the garage and wants to improve upon the design without making things worse. Cameron is brilliant at explaining the physics of how and why a motorcycle behaves the way it does without having to delve into the intricate mathematical equations so commonly found in books of this nature.
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