The BMW history book you need: BMW Motorcycles, 1923-2023

BMW Motorcycles, 1923-2023: 100 years of cutting-edge engineering and design. In 224 pages and more than 120 B&W photos, this book by BMW historian Jackie Jouret tells the story of BMW motorcycles from the company's beginnings as a maker of aero engines through the first R32 of 1923 all the way to the R12 nineT built 100 years later. The book covers the machinery and the personalities—those of engineers like Alex von Falkenhausen and Helmut-Werner Bönsch, executives like Bob Lutz, and racers like Schorsch Meier, Helmut Fath and Reg Pridmore—that define BMW, a company with a rich history of technical innovation. Includes information about concept bikes never put into production, as well as the company's successful racing machines, meticulously researched with the cooperation of the BMW Archive in Munich. Available exclusively from Amazon.com for $27.95.