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Honda Motorcycles The Ultimate Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Every Honda Motorcycle Ever Built |
Author: Doug Mitchel
Published: 2005-10-18 |
List price: $24.99
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Customer comments on this selection.
 No SL series? No Trail 70 bikes? I miss 1970.
Why no mention or pics of the SL series or the cool small trail bikes from 1970? Was hoping to relive a bit of my childhood here.
The Ultimate Guide?
Is Dougs' book the Ultimate Guide to Hondas, No. Is it worthwhile, indeed. When you consider the immense product line Honda has manufactured over the years, it would be quite challenging to cover each and every model in detail. But Mr.Mitchell has done a fine job of covering the majority of very popular models, and the color photography is superb. Most examples of the bikes are in excellent condition, and a few, namely the MB-5 were not. But I can only begin to imagine what is involved to find perfect examples of all of these bikes covered. If you love Hondas, you won't be disappointed by this book.
 The ultimate Guide Honda Motorcycles
Excellent overview of Honda's I had forgotten about. Covers all models Technical data OK, not indepth, however give excellent general info.
 By far not the "Ultimate Guide"
First off, unless Amazon has updated their picture, the subtitle on the cover is not "Everything You Need To Know About Every Honda Ever Built" but it actually says "...Every Honda Street Bike Ever Built". Even that is not quite correct. If you take that as every street legal Honda you will notice that all the SL and XL models that are street legal trail bikes are missing but the CT90/110 is included. I only noticed a couple of street models missing, an example is the MB5 is included but the NS50 is not, but the information is sparse and inconsistent. If you are trying to identify some Honda by color or decals this book may help you but if you are looking for true technical information it is lacking. Most of the information presented is similar to what you would read in product brochure for that model without any true technical information. There are many errors in the information presented. The author tells you the CB350G has a disk brake but then shows a picture of a CB350K4 and has it labeled a CB350G. This is just one example of many errors in the book. There are many photos but there are normally several photos of the same bike so don't look for a photo of each model of each year or even half of them. There is a pricing guide for the early, 1980 and earlier, models that is handy if you are looking to purchase one of the older bikes. Overall I'd say this book's title far overreaches the actual book. If you really want to know the differences in years and all the U.S. models the "Honda Motorcycle Identification Guide" is a much better reference. For the early years I recommend Roy Bacon's "Honda- The Early Classic Motorcycles" which is based on the U.K models from 1947 1977.
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