Stealing Speed

Mat Oxley is the best bike sport writer working in English. He contributed a Kenny Roberts Story for Sideburn 2, and has just had a book published about the amazing story of Nazi flying bomb engineer, Walter Kaaden, who - through his knowledge of pulse jets - created the two-stroke expansion chamber (as seen on Rainey's bike below). Ernst Degner was Kaaden's rider. Until he defected to Suzuki and changed the course of motorcycle history. I've read some of the book and it's fantastic. Buy it here.
Coincidentally, Kar Lee, who designed Sideburn's website, designed the book's cover. GI