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This paperback reprint - back due to popular demand. Mick Walker's expert account recalls the extraordinary era, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, when Agostini was without doubt, the man to beat at the top level of motorcycle sport. It is fully illustrated and includes a race-by-race record of all Agostini's achievements. Fifteen world titles - eight at 500cc and twelve Isle of Man TT victories in an extraordinary 17 year career make Giacomo Agostini the most successful racing motorcyclist in the history of the sport. His precocious talent and the courage and flair he demonstarted as a rider throughout his long career marked him out from all his comtemporaries. Yet until now no full-length study of his spectacular career has been published in English. Mick Walker's expert account recalls the extraordinary era, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, when Agostini was without doubt, the man to beat at the top level of motorcycle sport. Agostini's great races and his fierce rivalry with riders like Mike Hailwood, Jarno Saarinen and Phil Read are vividly recreated, and his world-beating motorcycles are analyzed in detail, including the legendary MV Agustas. In this fully illustrated and in-depth new study Mick Walker reassesses Agostini's remarkable record and explores the personal and technical background to his achievement. He writes of Agostini's birth in Northern Italy, his success as a teenager in hillclimbs and other local events and his sudden appearance on the world stage as Mike Hailwood's teammate at MV in 1965. No one could have predicted the matchless run of success that followed - no less than 122 Grand Prix wins. Agostini turned briefly to motor racing after he retired from motor cycles, then went into motorcycle team management with Yamaha and Cagiva, and was closely involved in the design of the MV Agusta F4 superbike. Mick Walker covers this less-known side of Agostini's career, but he concentrates on the racing years and on the motorcycles themselves. There is a technical analysis of the bikes Agostini rode and developed, in particular the 350cc and 500cc MVs he used at his peak. There is also a full race-by-race record of his achievements.
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GIACOMO (pronounced Jack-o-mo) Agostini was born on 16 July 1942 at Brescia, a medium-sized town a northern Italy, but was brought up in the much smaller lakeside town of Lovere, near Bergamo. Read the first page
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GIACOMO (pronounced Jack-o-mo) Agostini was born on 16 July 1942 at Brescia, a medium-sized town a northern Italy, but was brought up in the much smaller lakeside town of Lovere, near Bergamo. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Mick Walker confirms himself as one of the greatest Motorcycle writers. This book is very well written and full of informations and WONDERFUL pics. Great Book!
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A Massive Disappointment
22 Dec 2007
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I purchased this book with great anticipation; as a new convert to motorcycle road racing, I was eager to learn as much as possible about the lives and careers of some of history's most daring athletes, including the great Giacomo Agostini, who ruled the European Grand Prix circuits in the 1960s and 1970s aboard the fearsome MV Agusta bikes. So when I first saw Mick Walker's series on the great motorcycle champions, I was thrilled. Sadly, this book does not ever come to close to living up to my expectations. Mick Walker's biography is little more than a pasting together of magazine accounts from Agostini's career. What little there is of Mr. Walker's writing is flat, dull, and repetitive. The book's sole redemption is the selection of photographs--the dozens of photos are the reason I (generously) rate this book 2 stars.
Beyond the disappointment of spending money on a book that is not worth reading, the truly massive disappointment of this book is that it wasted a brilliant opportunity to provide English-language readers a biography of one of the world's greatest racers. Here's hoping that the failures of this book do not deter others from trying to record the lives of Agostini and his peers with the respect and effort they and their admirers deserve.
Beyond the disappointment of spending money on a book that is not worth reading, the truly massive disappointment of this book is that it wasted a brilliant opportunity to provide English-language readers a biography of one of the world's greatest racers. Here's hoping that the failures of this book do not deter others from trying to record the lives of Agostini and his peers with the respect and effort they and their admirers deserve.
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A classic Mick Walker book about one of the greatest motorbike racers that ever lived.
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28 Mar 2008
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By about page 65 I discovered the first of 16 blank pages. 8 places where the facing pages were blank. maybe mine is the only one but beware.
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