Shooting Star: The Rise & Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry

Aamidor, Abe

ISBN 10: 1550229001 / ISBN 13: 9781550229004

Published by ECW Press, 2009

About this Item

First edition, first printing with full number line. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #515.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shooting Star: The Rise & Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550229001
• ISBN 13: 9781550229004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

For many years the British motorcycle industry was the largest in the world, not counting low-powered mopeds and scooters and the like. After World War II the motorcycle industry was the third largest source of foreign exchange for the United Kingdom after motor cars and Scotch whiskey. Yet by 1975 the industry was essentially dead. What led to the fall of the motorcycle industry in Britain, after virtually defining the country for so long?

Shooting Star: The Rise and Fall of the British Motorcycle Industry is the first comprehensive look at the motorcycle industry with a critical look at business and trade practices that led to its demise. The full romance, beauty and excitement of the machines and especially the top racers who rode them is captured here, but it’s all blended for the first time with information about the lesser known businessmen who built the companies and then ran them into the ground, as well as a critical look at some of the engineers and designers who were brilliant and badly flawed at once. The failures of the British motorcycle industry are a painful object lesson for the badly strapped American automobile industry at the present time.

About the Author

Abe Aamidor is a former award-winning journalist; he wrote for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, the Indianapolis Star, and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and has taught journalism at Indiana University, Georgia Southern University, and Southern Illinois University. His novel, "Monastery of Writers," about a writers' commune in an abandoned resort in Southern Indiana with mysterious origins, was published in October 2015 and also is available on Amazon.