Many of the bikes featured in this book are classics from the heyday of motorbike manufacturing. Sadly a number of these famous names - such as Ariel, BSA, and Velocette - are consigned to the history books and the bikes themselves have become more and more of a collector's item. Many credit the demise of the British motorbike industry to the invasion of the Japanese manufacturers (Kawasaki, Suzuki, Honda and Yamaha) in the 1970s that changed the...