# McQueen's Motorcycles: Racing and Riding with the King of Cool - Hardcover

by **Matt Stone** (Author), **Dave Ekins** (Foreword by)

**The long-departed Steve McQueen is still the coolest man on two wheels. Get an intimate look at his coolest bikes right here, right now, in _McQueen's Motorcycles._**

Even thirty years after his death, **Steve McQueen remains a cultural icon**. His image continues to appear in advertising and pop culture and his fan base spans from car lovers to racing enthusiasts to motorcycle obsessives.

In his movies, McQueen's character always had an **envy-inducing motorcycle or car**, but in his personal life, motorcycles were always McQueen's first true love. _McQueen's Motorcycles_ focuses on the bikes that the King of Cool raced and collected.

**From the first Harley McQueen bought** when he was an acting student in New York to the Triumph "desert sleds" and Huskys he **desert raced all over California**, **Mexico**, and **Nevada**, McQueen was never without a stable of two wheelers.

His need for speed propelled him from **Hollywood** into a number of **top off-road motorcycle races**, including the **Baja 1000**, **Mint 400**, **Elsinore Grand Prix**, and even as a member of the **1964 ISDT team** in Europe. Determined to be ahead of the pack, McQueen maintained his body like it was a machine itself. He trained vigorously, weight lifting, running, and studying martial arts.

Later in his life, as he backed away from Hollywood, his interests turned to antique bikes and he **accumulated an extensive collection**, including **Harley-Davidson**, **Indian**, **Triumph**, **Brough Superior**, **Cyclone**, **BSA**, and **Ace** motorcycles.

Today, McQueen still has the Midas touch; anything that was in the man's possession is a hot commodity. McQueen's classic motorcycles sell for top dollar at auctions, always at a multiple of what the same bike is worth without the McQueen pedigree. _McQueen's Motorcycles_ **reveals these highly sought-after machines** in gorgeous **photography and full historical context.**

### Author Biography

**Matt Stone** (Glendale, CA), former executive editor of _Motor Trend_ magazine, has been a professional automotive journalist and photographer since 1985. He is the author and photographer of several books, including Motorbooks' best-selling _365 Cars You Must Drive_ (2006), _My First Car_ (2011), _McQueen's Machines_ (2010), _McQueen's Motorcycles_ (2017) and _Hot Rod Empire_ (2018). He is the co-author, with Preston Lerner, of _Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman_ (2014) and _History's Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed_ (2014).

**Dave Ekins** is a motorcycling legend. Born in 1932, Dave and his brother Bud pioneered the notion of off-road desert racing with motorcycles, and their early 1960s rides up and down the Baja peninsula proved to be the seeds that spawned the original Mexican Off Road Races, later known as the Baja 500 and 1000. In 1964 Dave teamed with brother Bud, Cliff Coleman and Steve McQueen to represent the United States in the International Six Day Trial motorcycle enduro taking place that year in East Germany in which Dave Ekins earned an individual Gold Medal. He also became a factory sponsored development test rider for Honda, and later editor of Petersen's Motorcyclist magazine. Now retired, Dave Ekins was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2001.

**Number of Pages:** 160

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 11.1 x 8.8 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** January 15, 2017

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