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This isn't really a tip or a trick but it seemed (to me anyway) to fit this section best. Maybe this thread can list some of the better reference materials people have found over the years.
I bought a copy of this book years ago and NOTHING got me more psyched to build a racebike from the ground up than this book did. Yes I have the Foales chassis book too (a couple editions of that one actually). I also bought volume 2 when it came out. I spent hours going over the info in both of them. I went as far as buying a donor bike but when I started tearing into it life went sideways starting with my dad dying and I never did get back into bikes the way I had been. So now they sit on my book shelf and I have no real plans of ever building a frame… but I digress. Buy this book. It's not cheap and it doesn't tell you what parts to bolt on your CBwhatever but if you truly want to learn the technical side of motorcycles this is quite an education.
EDIT: This is a an old review from probably 15 years ago. I have no idea what the book costs now, and the source they list for it no longer sells books IIRC. But come on, you have Google, use it.
I bought a copy of this book years ago and NOTHING got me more psyched to build a racebike from the ground up than this book did. Yes I have the Foales chassis book too (a couple editions of that one actually). I also bought volume 2 when it came out. I spent hours going over the info in both of them. I went as far as buying a donor bike but when I started tearing into it life went sideways starting with my dad dying and I never did get back into bikes the way I had been. So now they sit on my book shelf and I have no real plans of ever building a frame… but I digress. Buy this book. It's not cheap and it doesn't tell you what parts to bolt on your CBwhatever but if you truly want to learn the technical side of motorcycles this is quite an education.
EDIT: This is a an old review from probably 15 years ago. I have no idea what the book costs now, and the source they list for it no longer sells books IIRC. But come on, you have Google, use it.
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