Aword of advice: don’t lie in bed beside your wife looking at a photograph captioned: “The distinctive contours of the Honda Six cylinder head after four-axis machining…” It sends out all the wrong messages. I know. I did it.
But having been enthralled by the Honda RC174 ever since writing about classic bike guru George Beale’s project to ‘continue’ it 15 years ago, there was no way I wasn’t going to read this recently published book on the subject.