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

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.

I own 34 bikes currently. These include dirt bikes, choppers, mopeds, scramblers, and high-end touring bikes. After 40 years of messing with bikes, I've gotten pretty jaded with motorcycle books... Loved this one! Packed with information, very cool illustrations, and I've already learned new tricks and techniques. Definitely worth the price!

Basic but foot high points to follow

Very informative

I’ve been wrenching for well over 20yrs. This is a very useful guide. I’ve read it twice now. Absolutely recommend reading this book weather your building your 1st bike or 500th.

This book makes my coffee table look 1000% better.

As described

I guess I didn't really know what to expect from this book. It was a very basic overview of the steps and methods to building/customizing a motorcycle. This is a book probably for someone who has never undertaken a bike project.

Introduction only

While is not a owners manual, this book is very extensive for a beguiner, it sets you in the right path

Livro muito educativo, desvendando as principais etapas da construção de uma moto. Curtindo muito com meu filho.

I think it's a wonderful first look into the building of motorcycles. It is a book that, like the author said, gives you you a good insight into whether you want to take the on the commitment of building a bike. Or not. For me it was a not. Or at least, not yet. But it still was an _amazing_ entry into the world of motorcycles and despite not wanting to build, I got lots of knowledge about technicalities of frame, nuts and bolts (literally and figuratively!), jargon etc.

Beaucoup de généralités, le détail n'est pas à la hauteur attendue. Bon livre pour entrer dans le sujet, un peu insuffisant pour aller en profondeur...