title: Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion
author:  Mick Walker 
description: This illustrated history charts the design and engineering developments that shaped the modern motorcycle. Walker shows how the vehicle's evolution from the steam-powered bicycles of the eighteen-sixties was influenced by technological innovations in the airplane and auto industries, and also by lessons that manufacturers learned from the world of motor racing. Modern "superbikes" can traverse the Sahara and reach speeds of a hundred and seventy-five miles per hour. While it helps to be up on basic internal-combustion workings (a glossary is provided for those who don't know their camshafts from their crankcases), even the mechanically maladroit can enjoy the copious images, which feature such curiosities as snapshots of early sidecars - one a fully enclosed camper, big enough to sleep in, another a policeman's jail cell on wheels, for instantaneous imprisonment. <br />Copyright  2006 <a href="/s/ref=mag_ny_100/?url=search-alias%3Dmagazines&amp;field-keywords=new+yorker"><i>Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker</i></a>
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  # Ridden Hard
  
  
  ## A Ryker Ranch Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Kim Loraine
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2020 by Kim Loraine
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-dc13032518844bb6b40880adbb64f7cc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0005_split_000.html#4OIQ0-dc13032518844bb6b40880adbb64f7cc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0006_split_000.html#5N3C0-dc13032518844bb6b40880adbb64f7cc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0007_split_000.html#6LJU0-dc13032518844bb6b40880adbb64f7cc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0008_split_000.html#7K4G0-dc13032518844bb6b40880adbb64f7cc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0009_split_000.html#8IL20-dc13032518844bb6