Chassis design and handling: Gaetano Cocco, Vittore Cossalter, Tony Foale ...
Happy reading. :goofy:
Anything by Kevin Cameron.
Haynes have a 'Techbook' series which looks pretty good if you're looking for generic how things work rather than model specific How-To info:
Starting here you can easily find the whole series:
http://www.amazon.co...MHJGTERJM0MB0MQ
Another vote for author Vittore Cossalter. For the math and physics I got his book Motorcycle Dynamics 2nd Edition. It shows pictures of the bike with diagrams of the forces from the various systems. This is a super cool theory book.
Go to the web site for helminc, select Repair and Owner's Manuals, put in your bike, and select Service and Owner Information. Oddly on the right side of the page appears the Honda Common Service Manual. This book has a section for each type of system built into Honda motorcycles. It is not great but it gives some hints as to why Honda did what they did which I could not find elsewhere. I had some discussions online and it seem the newest book is comprehensive and is probably the best to get, versus a version printed when our respective bikes were built.
http://www.helminc.c...selected_media=
If you want nitty gritty motorcycle dynamics and physics, the Cossalter book has it. Tons of force diagrams and equations and all that stuff. I bought it because I am (was) a physicist and found it interesting. But not it's not light reading.
The Cocco book is good, but full of equations and maths should that scare you. I must find my copy again!
http://www.amazon.co...5Y9J69PAMM5DP7T
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Check out the series titled Motorcycle Tuning by John Robinson - chassis, four stroke and two stroke. Excellent clear straightforward descriptions by a much-missed UK journalist and engineer.