Japanese Steel: Classic Bicycle Design from Japan

Beatiful book.

Really nice book

Este libro sobrepasó mis expectativas. Las fotos, las descripciones, la información y la historia de las bicicletas clásicas japonesas transmiten un gran amor de quién creo el libro para aquellos interesados en la historia, mecánica y estética de las bicicletas. Una gran adicción a mi librería.

Awesome photos of beautiful, steel Japanese bicycles. Interesting information about the companies and the trade names used on the bikes, some of which I had never heard of before, and the deals made in manufacturing for American companies. If you love bicycles, particularly steel bicycles, you will enjoy this book. Once I opened it I could not put it down until I had gone through the whole thing. It kept me up, happily entertained for hours until after four o'clock in the morning.

To be honest, I’m not normally much of a book guy. It’s not that I don’t like books, I just don’t have time to sit down and read them most of the time. That means that long leisure reads are typically not going to happen for me. On the other hand, I love a good coffee table book that I can browse through for a bit every now and then. In the interest of full disclosure, I have known about this book for quite some time now. The author, William Bevington, has reached out to me several times regarding the Panasonic segments within this book as I'm the Founder of the Panasonic Bicycles Virtual Museum. He’s truly a man with a passion for these bikes and a great stickler for detail. The majority of the bikes featured in this book happen to belong to my friend Nick. Upon first inspection you’re struck by just how much meat there is to this book. It has 240 beautifully printed pages in full color. The layout is very crisp and clean and the photography is visually stunning. As a lover of Japanese bicycles this book does not disappoint. It is a bit like a multi-layer cake with a lot of information being presented in each section. It is evident that the author spent considerable time doing research and trying to nail down the facts and specifications for each presented model. Having focused on just Panasonic bicycles here on the Virtual Museum web site, I cringe at the amount of effort required to pull off an undertaking of this magnitude while meeting publishing deadlines etc. Featured marques include: Araya Bridgestone Centurion Nishiki Panasonic Miyata Fuji San Rensho Lotus Tsunoda Kabuki I was fortunate enough to do a pre publication review of the Panasonic content of this book for the author and was impressed by the depth of his research in terms of the people he had already been in touch with prior to contacting me. When I saw the page layouts and photography I had a very good feeling that this book was going to turn out nicely and I was correct. The finished book IS absolutely worth adding to your collection. If you love a good coffee table book that is more than just glossy photographs with captions you should definitely pick up a copy of this book while it is still available.

Gostei

Wenn man was kritisches sagen möchte dann höchstens das, dass man sich nach der Lektüre noch mehr wünscht! Mehr Fotos, mehr Beschreibungen aus einer Ära handwerklicher Meisterleistungen. Die dargestellten Räder sind ein Genuss!