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Jim, do you mean the one with Vic Willoughby as co-author? If you find a used copy at a low price I don't think you'd go wrong getting it. But Tony's latest edition "Motorcycle Handling and Chassis Design" incorporates everything in that first book and adds a great deal more so if you are only going to have one or the other, go with the current book.
John Bradley's books are a two volume set, with the first book being the "design" book and the second book being the "build it" material.
When I was John's US distributor I also sold Tony's book and software, and I encouraged people to get all three books and never had anyone say they'd regretted it.
Tony and John's books have some common material (not surprising) but they had different goals in writing them. Tony goes into much more detail on theoretical aspects, while John wanted books that would inspire people to take it out to the garage, do some measurements and calculations (as illustrated in the Volume 1), and then move on to changing/building things. Of course, Tony discusses construction topics too, but John goes into much greater detail in Volume 2 on material selection, construction techniques, etc.
So by getting all three you get a broader spread of knowledge than with just John or just Tony's book(s).
cheers,
Michael
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