Keith Noakes has a lifelong love of motorcycles and has owned and restored road racing machines, vintage speedway machines and variouss off-road examples. A large part of Keith's working life has been concerned with composite engineering, working in research and development for a large company that was one of the earliest suppliers of carbon and other fibres in various forms for structural applications. It was shortly after the introduction of this technology to Formula One car racing that it was, unsurprisingly, adopted by some motorcycle designers, particularly the innovators in the independent chassis manufacturing companies. Keith's involvement with these forward thinking designers brought him closer to their cutting-edge developments in various materials, and led to the discovery of a wide range of highly appealing machines from many independent manufacturers. The creativity and innovation of these designers, and the success of their machines, inspired Keith to write this book.