How to Build a Motorcycle: A Nut-and-Bolt Guide to Customizing Your Bike

Great book even if you’ve already built a motorcycle already. Wonderfully illustrated.

I would describe the layout as a comic book, the drawings are detailed (Not a technical diagram like a Haynes manual, but still a great and simple to understand reference). You have a wide range of information covered, including what tools to use, different bike design features and how they differ and trouble shooting. I would definitely recommend this book, but I would always recommend it alongside the make and model technical manual (If you're actually building a motorbike). This was one of my recent satisfying purchases.

Everything about this book is brilliant. Awesome illustrations, very well written, informative and it looks equally as good in the garage as it does on a coffee table in the lounge!

It’s a great book. It has great drawings and will give you inspiration and a basic knowledge so a perfect sofa read. Don’t mistake this for a Haynes manual though. One for novices or bikers that want to see if building is for them.

Written by an expert. I like it. And fun to read. Even if I never go down the route of building my own bike. I still learnt a lot.

Fantastic book. Very informative...

I bought this having heard nothing of it and wasn't planning on building a bike. I'm just a biker and it looked like it could be an interesting read. The book is nicely designed and bound and the design is a good balance between illustrations and information. I wouldn't say its all you need to know to build a bike as its not a technical manual like a Haynes but it does give you a good idea of what can be done and how things work. There's some nice photos at the back of the book showing some custom bikes and the rest of the book is very well laid out. I'd say the book would be a good gift purchase for anyone interested in bikes. If I hadn't bought it for myself I would have been very pleased if it was under the Christmas tree.

Well I bought this book because I am into bikes. And yes I am happy. If you are already into motorcycles or are about to start your journey this is a good buy. Really appealing from cover to cover and great quality, this will only cement your lifelong bond with riding into the wind.

As expected, packing could have been even better, but wasn't or uncareful bad either

I don’t read many books, it takes a rare one to keep my attention. This one did, I knocked out the nearly 200 pages in a couple of days. Thank you to Gary Inman to writing this book.

Esta muy bien hecho tiene muchos datos de interés

I have tinkered with and customized a few motorcycles now and I still enjoyed flipping through this book. There is a lot of insight tidbits from how to swap forks to paint finishes and styles or even how to build your own gas tank.the illustrations are very nicely done in almost a blue ballpoint pen style and the back of the book also includes some photos of other people's builds. Very interesting book and I recommend it to anyone who likes motorcycles.

I am making plans to build a Harley-Davidson Sportster for my first custom build and picked this book up after seeing it on the Sideburn Magazine Instagram feed. It's a great overview of the process of building a custom bike, touching on all the major aspects of what you might get into. The information in it is applicable to pretty much any bike...for more specifics you'll want to get the service manual for your bike plus more detailed references on the project you're tackling (metal fabrication, welding, painting, etc.). This book could easily be twice as thick and still not go real deeply into any one area. This book is also beautifully illustrated! The only photos are in the section at the very end showing some different finished motorcycles as inspiration. I like the illustrations vs. photos...they captivate my imagination more than a simple photo does. I can see this being a reference that I refer back to often while working on my build.