Book recommendations?

[jok]

I've had a flick through a few of the workshop/repair manuals from Scotsman37's list mentioned in the Sticky thread, bought and read the "Haynes Motorcycle Basics Tech book" (which, great though it is , of course only recommends more Haynes' books ), am slowly working my way through Dan's Repair course and trawled through google, but I was wondering if anyone can recommend any other books or resources on how motorcycles work. I'd be interested in anything from practical hands-on guides to more abstract or theoretical descriptions of particular aspects of a bike.

("Learning by doing" is not really an option for space reasons and I don't have the time (or the money) for a "proper" course at the moment, before anyone suggests it)
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[Bezzer]

I know it's another Haynes but the Fuel Systems Techbook is good, written by the late great John Robinson
Covers all the theory, construction, adjustment, fault finding, and tuning etc etc for Carburettors and Fuel Injection well worth a read.
Same goes for their Electrical Manual as well, but when all is said and done there's no substitute for the actual thing. Surely you could stash an old nail of a bike somewhere and learn quicker by stripping refurbishing it with the knowledge you are building up from books.
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[jok]

I'm not against Haynes at all. Quite the opposite, in fact: what I've read of their's so far is great , just... the more the merrier . I need to get a bike for practical reasons first and, sadly, only then I can think about getting something else to fiddle with (which would have to live outside somewhere... hardly an ideal place). So, for the time being it's just books.

Thanks for the info, though! I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere.
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[ZRX61]

[stinkwheel]

What bezzer said is true though. If you get an old nail, you really wont mind leaving it outside.

Several of my mates living in flats in Edinburgh have built themselves bikes. What you do is bung some plastic sheeting and a lump of plywood in a corner of your room. Next, get a shitheap of a bike and park it somewhere where it wont be tripped over.

Dismantle the bike into rough lumps and bung them in the coal cellar or something in boxes.

Now, take the lumps of bike up to your room one at a time, dismantle, clean and reassemble. You could surprise yourself by how quickly it makes a working bike. Even if you just take the engine up for a fiddle and throw the rest in a skip it would ba a good learning exercise. There is a dismantled C90 engine in my bedroom right now, doesn't take up all that much space.

Then the next problem is how the hell to get a fully assembled triumph 250 single down six flights of stairs (as one mate of mine found). Obviously, you ride it down.

Now, say you bought something like THIS, you wouldn't REALLY worry about parking it outside now would you? (Incidentally, I bet that bike isn't as bad as it looks, if you look at the tinwork, it is dirty but not all that corroded).
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[ZRX61]