The Scott Motorcycle: The Yowling Two-Stroke | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Clew
Publisher: Haynes Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2216861
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0854291644
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2275
EAN: 9780854291649
ASIN: 0854291644
Publication Date: October 30, 2004
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Condition: Sealed and New. In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.
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Product Description
Scott motorcycles never fail to draw a crowd. Conceived 100 years ago by an unorthodox Yorkshireman who invented the vertical two-stroke twin and then placed his engine in an open frame machine, the Scott motorcycle was at the time viewed as beautiful, well-built and smooth - but certain eccentricities meant it was not always easy to ride. Jeff Clew's authoritative and incredibly illustrated book, re-issued to meet continuing demand, tells the full story of the machine described as 'the Bugatti of motorcycles'.
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The Scott Motorcycle August 16, 2008
A well written and informative history, particularly of the early days of this marque, and its founder, Alfred Scott, which I found interesting because I knew little of this period. The Scott motorcycle is inevitably a minority interest, but technically interesting as the book makes clear that some of the features of the contemporary two-stroke motorcycle were invented by Alfred Scott and produced in 1908, i.e. the telescopic front fork, often attributed to BMW in the 1930's. The author makes the book eminently readable, and the period photographs are wonderful. I have a particular interest as I grew up about 6 miles from where the factory used to be, and have spectated at the Scott Trial in November in the rain in North Yorkshire, fortunately close to a pub called "The Green Dragon" in the village of Reeth, in Swaledale, where a warm meal could be had. However, I think that this book will appeal to any motorcycle enthusiast who has an interest in how we got to where we are today, and where some of the ideas developed so well by present day manufacturers came from.
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