In this fully illustrated and indepth new study of one of the greatest of motorcycle racers, Mick Walker reassesses John Surtees’s remarkable record and explores the background to his achievement.

Mick Walker’s expert account recalls the extraordinary era, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, when Agostini was without doubt, the man to beat at the top level of motorcycle sport.

This book sets out to record the amazing achievements of a real British industrial empire, the Wolverhampton-based Villiers Engineering Company; spanning over 100 years of production, from the original cycle…