Suzuki GSX-R: A Legacy of Performance

Cook, Marc; Kevin Schwantz (Forward)

ISBN 10: 189361851X / ISBN 13: 9781893618510

Published by David Bull Publishing, Phoenix, AZ, 2005

About this Item

192 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket with wear at heel. There is a light bump at heel of spine ad dust jacket. First Edition / First Printing. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. Signed by Kevin Schwantz on half-title page. "Kevin Schwantz 34" This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suzuki GSX-R: A Legacy of Performance
• Publisher: David Bull Publishing, Phoenix, AZ
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189361851X
• ISBN 13: 9781893618510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed Copy

About this title

Synopsis

Suzuki’s GSX-R series is synonymous with performance and has become one of the most evocative marques in motorcycling. Its groundbreaking design established an entirely new category of race-replica motorcycles and forced competing manufacturers to respond to the GSX-R by adopting new technologies and often abandoning their own favored designs. To say the GSX-R forced the hand of sportbike makers everywhere is a dramatic understatement. Suzuki GSX-R: A Legacy of Performance explores the roots of the original GSX-R750 concept, its showroom and racetrack successes, and how its eye-opening performance, lightweight design, and charismatic personality established a new market segment that Suzuki continues to define. Each generation of the GSX-R family is explored through interviews with Suzuki engineers and designers. Virtually every member of the original GSX-R development staff is still associated with Suzuki, and they all offer recollections of the bike’s gestation, providing priceless insight on the breakneck-speed engineering required to bring a light, fast race bike to the street. Readers will be taken inside the off-limits Ryuyo R & D center and proving ground, where the engineering and development of the GSX-R models are carried out. This is followed by a virtual factory tour that shows a GSX-R being built step by step. Suzuki GSX-R: A Legacy of Performance offer’s an insider’s look at the most influential and winning marque in motorcycling, with hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs, many of which have never before been published.

About the Author

Marc Cook has been in motorcycle journalism for twenty-two years. His extensive background in aviation and automobiles gives him a thorough technical understanding seldom found among his fellow journalists. He is the co-author of Ducati 999: Birth of a Legend, with Alan Cathcart.