A brief excerpt from Motorcycle Dream Garages by Lee Klancher .

S peed comes in all kinds of packages. Lion-hearted racers like Dick Mann hardheadedly smash race tracks into submission. Supremely talented James Stewart and Kenny Roberts mix confidence, fearlessness, and innate ability into a ballsy throttle-twisting cocktail that destroys the competition.

Speed also comes to the precise, those to whom a set of handlebars is a scalpel and a wheel a blade. These racers slice and dice race tracks with an engineer’s precision, finding the fastest way around the circuit with minimal touches to the machine.

I was barely old enough to pedal a bicycle when John Hateley was kicking mud into the competition’s faces and therefore I have no idea what kind of racer he was in top form. I can tell you, however, that watching him knife a pristinely prepared flat tracker around the little track at his idiosyncratic dream garage with a foot out and canted in just so makes me think I know. He’s got National-Level Championship Speed, by the way. Not the garden-variety shit you see down at your favorite track doing heel-clickers and whips and making the local boys gawk. He’s the Real Deal, with championships in both motocross and flat track racing.

Hateley’s nose for precision carries into the meticulous madness you’ll find inside the gearhead candy store that he calls a garage at his place in California’s San Fernando Valley.

Every nook and cranny is jammed with storied race bikes, billet enticements, and pieces of moto-history.

Check out the new book, Motorcycle Dream Garages by Lee Klancher , to read the entire story about John Hateley’s garage.
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The Artisan of Speed. A brief excerpt from the book, Motorcycle Dream Garages, by Lee Klancher.

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