1955 BSA MC1 250 GRAND PRIX PROTOTYPE (THE MOTORCYCLE FILES) [Kindle Edition]
Book Description
The Motorcycle Files is a series of short but hugely-informative e-books (or e-files) that are priced relative to their size and content.
The series presents you with a unique opportunity to build your own library of road and track tests of some of the world#x2019;s rarest motorcycles.
This edition of The Motorcycle Files, for example, is the first-ever track test feature by any journalist of the ultimate mystery bike – the 250cc BSA MC1 prototype Grand Prix racer which was developed during 1950-55 by what was then the world#x2019;s largest motorcycle manufacturer. It was developed and tested and showed great potential – but it was never raced.
This e-file gives a full history of the machine including an exclusive interview with Roland Pike, one of its main development engineers and with Geoff Duke the six-times World Champion who tested it and found it to be ‘fit for purpose’.
Unfortunately the BSA management refused to allow it to race unless all concerned were prepared to guarantee that it would win first time out! Obviously an impossibility to predict.
Abandoning the project was a great shame as Duke’s assessment of the prototype was that it could have been developed into a genuine World Championship challenger in the 250cc class.
Journalist and former racer, Alan Cathcart, has been testing road and racing motorcycles all over the world for twenty years and this, allied to a successful racing career, has earned him the respect of all of the major motorcycle manufacturers, museums and private owners of priceless two-wheeled rarities.
In many cases the machines that he has tested for The Motorcycle Files are the only existing example in the world. And Alan#x2019;s unique combination of riding ability and journalistic skills means that manufacturers are willing to open the doors to their factory team race shops to him and then allow him to test on the race track the machines that are usually restricted to World Championship Grand Prix and Superbike racers.
The Motorcycle Files, therefore, are the only publications that can offer you the chance to build up your own library of information on some of the rarest machines on the planet. Each file includes the track or road test, plus technical information and the historical background of the featured machines.
Added to that is the fact that The Motorcycle Files has utilized the skills of some of the best motorcycle photographers in the world to provide unrivalled action and technical images. No other series can strip the fairings from the racing machines and allow you a close-up look at the engines and other technical details usually seen only by the race team engineers.
The initial releases in The Motorcycle Files series will focus mainly upon a selection of the most famous road and racing machines of the past.
The Motorcycle Files is a series of short but hugely-informative e-books (or e-files) that are priced relative to their size and content.
The series presents you with a unique opportunity to build your own library of road and track tests of some of the world#x2019;s rarest motorcycles.
This edition of The Motorcycle Files, for example, is the first-ever track test feature by any journalist of the ultimate mystery bike – the 250cc BSA MC1 prototype Grand Prix racer which was developed during 1950-55 by what was then the world#x2019;s largest motorcycle manufacturer. It was developed and tested and showed great potential – but it was never raced.
This e-file gives a full history of the machine including an exclusive interview with Roland Pike, one of its main development engineers and with Geoff Duke the six-times World Champion who tested it and found it to be ‘fit for purpose’.
Unfortunately the BSA management refused to allow it to race unless all concerned were prepared to guarantee that it would win first time out! Obviously an impossibility to predict.
Abandoning the project was a great shame as Duke’s assessment of the prototype was that it could have been developed into a genuine World Championship challenger in the 250cc class.
Journalist and former racer, Alan Cathcart, has been testing road and racing motorcycles all over the world for twenty years and this, allied to a successful racing career, has earned him the respect of all of the major motorcycle manufacturers, museums and private owners of priceless two-wheeled rarities.
In many cases the machines that he has tested for The Motorcycle Files are the only existing example in the world. And Alan#x2019;s unique combination of riding ability and journalistic skills means that manufacturers are willing to open the doors to their factory team race shops to him and then allow him to test on the race track the machines that are usually restricted to World Championship Grand Prix and Superbike racers.
The Motorcycle Files, therefore, are the only publications that can offer you the chance to build up your own library of information on some of the rarest machines on the planet. Each file includes the track or road test, plus technical information and the historical background of the featured machines.
Added to that is the fact that The Motorcycle Files has utilized the skills of some of the best motorcycle photographers in the world to provide unrivalled action and technical images. No other series can strip the fairings from the racing machines and allow you a close-up look at the engines and other technical details usually seen only by the race team engineers.
The initial releases in The Motorcycle Files series will focus mainly upon a selection of the most famous road and racing machines of the past.
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