Straight facts about riding! A Twist of the Wrist, the acknowledged number one book on rider improvement for ten years straight, brought riders worldwide to a new understanding of vital riding skills. Uncovers and traces, action by action, the direct links between man and machine.
Author Randy Leffingwell and researcher Guy Fay poured their hearts and souls into selecting 36 tractors that changed the face of agriculture. The result is a unique, stunningly illustrated book that offers fresh insight into the hallmark machines of agriculture. Beginning with a Case steamer and ending with the Cat Challenger, this book traces the development of farm machinery from crude friction-driven machines to 300-horsepower computer-controlled behemoths.
McLaren, Hulme and Amon have risen above the radar in New Zealand with colourful tales of skill, success, daring and disaster. To have merely competed overseas, let alone excelled at any level in motor sport, is to have achieved something beyond our local comprehension. In New Zealand, motor racing is fun, and expensive. Overseas, it is deadly serious, expensive beyond our grasp and hugely competitive. Greg Murphy, the best known driver in New Zealand today, is one of many Kiwis whose name has been on the lips of millions outside A... read more
This book takes a broad-brush approach to the history of the RNZAF, which was formally made an independent service in 1937; it is a
Bucyrus-Erie Company is a name synonymous with moving the earth. From the smallest loader-backhoe to some of the largest machines ever to move on land, no other company has produced such a wide variety of types and sizes of excavating equipment. With a rich heritage going back 128 years the company, now known as Bucyrus International Inc., is still designing and building some of the world's largest shovels and walking draglines. Nothing could be more apt to describe this manufacturing power house than its slogan used in the 1960s "... read more
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This handsome new book showcases a dozen superb automobiles, selected by the experts at "Road and Track." Illustrated with over 200 gorgeous photographs, "Supercars" celebrates these incredible machines.
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Following up on Crap Cars and My Dad Had One of Those, for Father's Day 2008 Top Gear celebrates the mid-life crisis with the definitive collection of the flashest, fastest, most impractical cars ever to be found in the driveways of otherwise perfectly sensible men. Drawing on the high level of expertise in this area, Top Gear explores the phenomenon of motoring and the midlife crisis, identifying over 50 classics of the genre across four desperate decades. From Ford Capri to Ferrari Testarossa, it celebrates the flashest, fastest ... read more
In a very particular way British sports cars reflect British society, with its class structure and contradictions. There are the aristocrats such as the Bentley 4-1/2 litre supercharged model or the Aston Martin Vanquish. At the other end of the wheel-based social scale are the purveyors of sporty mobility like the MG TC or the Austin Healey Sprite. Somewhere in between, January boss Sir William Lyons made it his mission to make his fine creations accessible, even to people who could not afford them.So far about two and a half mill... read more
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This lavishly illustrated book examines over 300 air and space disasters. Includes hijackings and other crimes, and accidents such as the space shuttle, also discusses the development of black boxes and cockpit voice recorders.
Porsche, with its open aerodynamic coupe body, exotic appearance and performance capabilities beyond that of a normal passenger car, has become an icon in the transportation world; not only as a sports car, but also for the status and sexy image it brings to its owner.The concise and compelling texts shed light on every aspect of Porsche history, richly illustrated with a variety of historical documents. Throughout the 400-page book, naturally, one thing stands out: the vehicle itself. Rainer Schlegelmilch's photographs veritably p... read more
Saddle up for a lively look at the frisky Ford that's been winning America's heart for 40 years. Includes a complete full-colour review of the original "ponycar" with hundreds of photos and nostalgic brochure pages.
From building roads through dense forests, mining the earth for raw ore, laying pipe, constructing power developments, to creating golf courses, Caterpillar's earthmoving machines have played an important role in shaping our world. Caterpillar Earthmovers at Work features Caterpillars in action moving massive amounts of rock, dirt, trees and anything else in their path. See these machines used in forestry & logging, road construction, railway construction, hydroelectric power projects, mining and much more.A treat for all heavy equipment fans.
Extensively illustrated and packed with detailed information on both manufacturers and machines, Yellow Steel knits together the diverse stories of the many companies that created the earthmoving equipment industry - how they began, expanded, retooled, merged, succeeded, and sometimes failed. Their history, a step-by-step linking of need and invention, provides the foundation for virtually all modern transportation, construction, commerce, and industry
"Adventure Riding Techniques" is the definitive guide to the specialist skills needed for off-road adventure riding, written to give readers the confidence to undertake a long-distance adventure ride, whatever the conditions. This book takes a practical approach to adventure bike basics, riding techniques, crossing different types of terrain, riding positions and survival. In typical Haynes style, using picture-led chapters and step-by-step instructions, this book covers all the key aspects of the techniques relevant to adventure riding.
