📚 Motorcycles

The two-wheel machine: riding, the trade, and the culture that grew up in leathers.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject motorcycles in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert M. Pirsig	1974	78
	Diarios de Motocicleta	Che Guevara	1993	39
	Harley Davidson	Albert Saladini	1997	18
	Motorcycles	Mari C. Schuh	2017	11
	Miller's Classic Motorcycles Price Guide	Judith Miller	1994	9
	Superbikes	Ian Graham	2003	9
	Dirt bikes	David Armentrout	2005	8
	The Perfect Vehicle	Melissa Holbrook Pierson	1997	7
	Motorcycles	Ian Graham	1998	7
	Superbikes	Alan Dowds	2002	7
	Horseless vehicles, automobiles, motor cycles operated by steam, hydro-carbon, electric and pneumatic motors	Gardner Dexter Hiscox	1900	6
	Easy motorcycle riding	Theresa Wallach	1970	5
	Bike!	Thierry Sagnier	1974	5
	Motor cycle tuning (two-stroke)	Robinson, John	1986	5
	Valentino Rossi	Mat Oxley	2002	5
	Motorcycling For Dummies	Bill Kresnak	2008	5
	The scientific design of exhaust and intake systems	Philip Hubert Smith	1962	4
	The encyclopedia of motorcycling	Bishop, George	1980	4
	Honda MBX/MTX125 & MTX200 owners workshop manual	Jeremy Churchill	1985	4
	Modern Motorcycle Technology	Edward Abdo	2008	4
	Modern motorcycle mechanics	John Bernard Nicholson	1953	3
	Classic motorcycles	Vic Willoughby	1975	3
	The illustrated encyclopedia of motorcycles	Erwin Tragatsch	1983	3
	The V-Twin tuner's handbook	D. William Denish	1993	3
	The complete motorcycle book	Jim Bennett	1995	3
	Motorcycle Maintenance Techbook	Keith Weighill	2004	3
	MotoGP Technology	Neil Spalding	2006	3
	Smokin' motorcycles	Bob Woods	2013	3
	Brough Superior	Ronald H. Clark	1964	2
	Chilton's complete guide to motorcycles and motorcycling	Don Koch	1974	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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