Motorcycle Dream Garages

Motorcycle Dream Garages

by Lee Klancher

Published by Motorbooks International

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3550-5

$35.00 Hardcover, 9.25 x 10.87”

192 pages, 213 color photos

 

Reviewed by Ken Aiken

        Every motorcyclist has a dream garage, that list of bikes desired to be owned or ridden and a special space in which to park them that doesn’t take second place to family or four-wheel transportation. The dream garage might have every tool needed to repair, restore, or custom build any motorcycle in existence. It could have showcases and wall spaces for rare memorabilia and racks to hold gear for any possible riding scenario. In any case, it would be unique, an extension of your own personality and passion.

         Lee Klancher has found and photographed 17 very real dream garages. Some these, like Jay Leno’s Big Dog Garage, are well known while others, such as one Hollywood garage that includes a MTT Superbike powered by a Rolls-Royce Allison gas turbine engine and a V-Max concept bike designed by Tim Cameron and built by Christian Travert, are understandably anonymous. Regardless whether these garages are famous or practically unheard of, publicly accessible or kept on a need-to-know basis, house the rarest bikes on the planet or people’s favorite rides, all 17 of these are quite different in style and scope.

        There are dozens of luscious machines featured in this book, but unlike so many coffee-table volumes this one focuses on the spaces that house motorcycles and the individuals who created these mechanical refuges. There’s a bit of inspiration, no matter how modest, to be found on these 192 pages and among the 213 color photos in Kancher’s book.