Grand Prix Motorcycle Racers: The American Heroes

by Norm DeWitt and Alan Cathcart

Until the 1970s, North America was considered a backwater with respect to world championship-level motorcycle road racing. European racers viewed American riders as being less talented and rode around in circles on tracks made of dirt. That all changed when Kenny Roberts exploded onto the Grand Prix racing scene and became the first American to win the world championship in motorcycle road racing's premier class. Roberts' success launched an era of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760334684
• ISBN13: 9780760334683
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"