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TIME TO LOOK BACK $75 PC Box 3443 GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA TTLDESIGNS@SLAZENET.NET A LEGACY OF PERFORMANCE Thousands of Photos Photographer Alan J. Sessarego $34.95 DAVID BULL PUBLISHING 4250 E. CAMELBACK ROAO SUITE K.150 PHOENIX, AZ S501 B 602/B52-9500 WWW.BULLPUBLISHING.COM 20 Years and Counting The GSX-R line of motorcycles are synonymous with performance and have become one of the most evocative marques in motorcycling. Their groundbreaking design established an entirely new category of race-replica motorcycles and forced competing manufacturers to respond to the GSX-R by adopting new technologies and often abandoning their own favored designs. Marc Cook's Suzuki GSX-R: A Legacy o( Performance explores the roots of the original GSX-R750 concept, its showroom and racetrack successes, and how its eye-opening performance, lightweight design, and charismatic personality established a new market segment that Suzuki continues to define. Each generation of the GSX-R family is explored through interviews with Suzuki engineers and designers. Virtually every member of the original GSX-R development staff is still associated with Suzuki, and they all offer recollections of the bike's gestation, providing priceless insight on the breakneck-speed engineering required to bring a light, fast race bike to the street. The foreword is by 1993 500cc Grand Prix Champion Kevin Schwantz. Readers will be taken inside the off-limits Ryuyo R&D center and proving ground, where the engineering and development of the GSX-R models are carried out. This is followed by a virtual factory tour that shows a GSX-R being built step by step. Suzuki GSX-R: A Legacy o( Performonce offers an insider's look at the most influential and winning marque in motorcycling, with hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs, many of which have never before been published. The hardcover, 9" x I I," I92-page book includes 300 color and 41 black-and-white photos and is printed on heavy-duty art-quality paper. That Stare Carl Fogarty was the king of World Superbike competition in the '90s, winning S9 races and four World Superbike titles for Ducati (in 1994, '95, '98 and '99). But there was more to Foggy's career than just World Superbike. Foggy also won the World Endurance Championship in 1992 on a Team Kawasaki France ZX-7R. On the way to that title, Foggy won the Le Mans 24 Hour, Spa, Bol D'Or 24 Hour, Phillip Island and johor. Foggy also won the Formula I TT World Championship in 1988 and '89, not to mention a handful of wins at the Isle of Man TT races. including the F I win in the FIM World Cup in 1990. In the book Foggy: The Championship Yeors, Fogarty describes each and every one of his wins throughout his career. The book is packed with beautiful photography that any Foggy fan or motorcycle-racing nut will love. Fogarty is still the most successful rider in World Superbike history, with an unprecedented number of wins and titles, feats that will be hard to beat in the coming years. This book is a must for any Foggy fan. 44 OCTOBER 19,2005 • CYCLE NEWS attended his first professional motorcycle race at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, in the early I970s and was employed at Autoweek magazine as a auto-racing photographer. It would be 20 long years before Sessarego would attend another motorcycle race. Once he attended another, he was hooked. His book Time To Look Bock takes a look back over a dozen years and over 75 professional motorcycle races including AMA Superbike, World Superbike, and 500 Grand Prix, among others. The two volumes included in the price feature over 800 pages and over 1000 full color photographs of the men, the machines and the scenes that make motorcycle road racing one of our most beloved sports. MOTOCROSS AMERICA $40 MOTCRBOOKS GALTIER PLAZA, SUITE 200 3BO ..JACKSON STREET ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55101 BOO/45B'0454 WYIW.MOTORBOOKS.COM The Motocross Chronicles From European dirt tracks to packed grandstands and starting gates of U.S. stadiums, the evolution of motocross is chronicled in Motocross America by Bill Amick. A tribute to the history of motocross in America, it's also a permanent and historical reference to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum (Pickerington Ohio) exhibit of the same name that debuted in March 2005. Amick's insightful text tracks the history of motocross from its European roots through its birth and expansion in the United States. It also covers the superhero riders, as well as supercross and motocross technology. The book features beautiful studio photography of the significant bikes and gear from the exhibit, plus archival shots of the sport's greatest riders. Then the book fills in the past with the present in "Where Are They Now?" sidebars. As the museum's executive director, Mark Mederski, explains in the foreword, Motocross Americo "traces the phenomenon of motocross through the work of the visionaries, promoters, athletes, innovators and manufacturers who have made it possible for tens of thousands of Americans to enjoy the thrill of motocross firsthand and millions more to experience it at the track, in stadiums and on television." TRAFALGAR S~UARE ......,~ No. POMFRET VERMONT 05053 BOO/423-4525