If you're red-blooded and somewhere between 35 and 50 the chances are that your first bike was a sports moped. This book takes you on a nostalgic full throttle trip back to the heady days of the 1970s and early 80s when these fabulous little superbikes were available to 16 year-olds. Packed with photos from past and present, this book will revive wonderful memories of the machines, the people, the fashions, and even the music of the time. Includes coverage of AJW, Batavus, Casal, Cimatti, Derbi, Fantic, Flandria, Garelli, Gilera, Gitane, Honda, Kreidler, KTM, Malaguti, Motobecane, Negrini, NVT, Puch, Suzuki, Testi, Yamaha and Zundapp.

Funky Mopeds!: The 1970s Sports Moped Phenomenon

Engineering & Transportation

Skelton, Richard

Automotive

Veloce Publishing Ltd.

Few people have been as deeply involved in motorcycle sport as Chris Carter, a larger than life character and raconteur who was for a great number of years a journalist, commentator and broadcaster at the very top level of motorcycle sport. This memoir is a funny, fascinating and unique insider view of professional motorcycling over more than six decades. From scrambling in the 1960s, to four decades of international road racing - including Daytona and Macau - and on to trials and speedway. Packed with remarkable stories and amusing anecdotes, as well as interesting reflections and astute observations, it is a light-hearted, highly readable autobiography which lifts the lid on an extraordinary world. In past times, racing paddocks were open and friendly, and Chris felt part of a big, happy family. He lived cheek by jowl with the very top riders and shared their triumphs and tragedies; to many, he was a friend and confidante. Honest, frank and direct, Chris tells things exactly as they were, and provides insights into a fast disappearing world.

Chris Carter at Large: Stories from a Lifetime in Motorcycle Racing

Biographies & Memoirs

CARTER, CHRIS

Arts & Literature

Born in Shropshire soon after the end of the First World War, venerable motoring writer W de Forte has driven everything from his grandfather's first Daimler, to modern-day supercars ... ridden everything from vertiginous Victorian penny farthings, to high velocity twenty-first century superbikes ... travelled everywhere from the permafrost of the Arctic Circle to the baking sands of the Baja Peninsula ... and met everyone from Tazio Nuvolari to Valentino Rossi.W de Forte enjoyed an eventful career as a top-level journalist, spanning 75 years, during which time he tested many thousands of cars and reported on countless automotive events around the world. This made him uniquely qualified to comment on all aspects of classic and vintage motoring and motorcycling.Relatively undimmed by age and ague, even in his mid-90s, de Forte had no plans to retire, but, in late 2014, a high-speed prang while testing a wayward Rudge Ulster at a racing circuit in Belgium brought him up with a jolt, both literally and metaphorically. After recuperating in hospital, he settled down to write his long-awaited and much requested auto-biography.This unique and insightful book is the result. Packed with fascinating stories about classic cars and motorcycles, A Life Awheel - the 'Auto' Biography of W de Forte is an account of an extraordinary motoring life, and the story of motoring in the 20th century.

A Life Awheel: The 'Auto' Biography of W de Forte

Forte, Wilberforce

A celebration of the sports moped recapturing the spirit of happy and carefree times and looking at the bikes that gave freedom to a generation. Covers the social history of the 1970s, as well as the Funky Mopeds, first introduced in 1972. Manufacturers included Gilera, Honda, Puch, Suzuki, Yamaha, Zundapp among others. Covers the current scene and today's revival of mopeds.

Funky Mopeds: the 1970s Sports Moped Phenomenom

A poetic enquiry into the life of a landscape.

Beyond the Fell Wall (Little Toller Monographs)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Little Toller Books

Beyond the Fell Wall is a distillation of the author’s thoughts and observations on this particular patch of land. It is a poetic enquiry into the inanimate life of a landscape – its unheard melodies and unseen movements. It considers both vast geological epochs and brief moments of intimacy, and in turn it asks us to consider sentience in all things – animal, vegetable and mineral. At its heart is the fell wall itself – a vast, serpentine entity. A vessel for the lives, voices and myths of the landscape. The dark heart about which all of life and death revolves.

Earth Sciences

Last of the Summer Wine is the longest-running comedy series in TV history, and one which has touched the hearts of many millions of people around the world. The first ever episode was broadcast in early January 1973. It was in itself just a one-off program, but it turned out to be the first of a series of 295 episodes produced over an incredible 38-year span. In the 1980s and 1990s the show regularly attracted 12 million viewers in the UK, and Christmas specials drew even bigger audiences. Sir Terry Wogan was a fan, and it was reportedly the Queen's favorite program. Last of the Summer Wine has also proved immensely and enduringly popular in many English-speaking countries around the world, with repeats being shown regularly to this day in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the US.

The Golden Years of Last of the Summer Wine

Humor & Entertainment

Television

Tempest

Royal Enfield motorcycles have been in continuous production longer than any other make in the world and the marque has a rich and fascinating history. It also has a bright future ahead. Exciting new models are being built in the firm’s high-tech factory in Chennai in southern India and sold in ever-increasing numbers in 42 countries around the globe. More new designs are in development.\nThe company is unique in having an Anglo-Indian culture and back story. Royal Enfield is proud of its British roots dating back to 1901, and equally proud of its Indian heritage which had its beginnings in the early 1950s. Now the company has come full circle with a global technology centre having been established in the English Midlands, just a few miles from Redditch where the story began.\nThe book will look at the ethos of the Royal Enfield factory in Chennai, the infectious enthusiasm of the people who make the machines and the biking lives and culture of the many millions who ride them in India.

Royal Enfield - A Global Motorcycling Success Story

Banovallum

In the wake of an unnamed calamity a solitary woman travels back to her childhood home, navigating the maze of narrow roads that cross-cut England's hinterlands below Hadrian's Wall. In the absence of human contact, the agency of the land itself begins to impress itself upon her consciousness, and, as her journey unfolds, her life and the lives of the dead, both recent and ancient, slowly reveal themselves as inextricably intertwined. Richard Skelton's second work of fiction continues his exploration of the relationship between landscape and human identity. Whereas 'The Look Away' focused on a claustrophobic, individual encounter, 'And Then Gone' expands to extend the narrative into the deep past, and the stories of lives now 'flattened between the pages of earth.'

And Then Gone

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Xylem Books

Limnology

Poetry

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Funky Mopeds!: The 1970s Sports Moped Phenomenon

Chris Carter at Large: Stories from a Lifetime in Motorcycle Racing

A Life Awheel: The 'Auto' Biography of W de Forte

Funky Mopeds: the 1970s Sports Moped Phenomenom

Beyond the Fell Wall (Little Toller Monographs)

Beyond the Fell Wall (Little Toller Monographs)

The Golden Years of Last of the Summer Wine

Royal Enfield - A Global Motorcycling Success Story

And Then Gone

Limnology