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The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
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ISBN10: 0393318095
ISBN13: 9780393318098
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1 1998
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.15 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393318098
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1 1998
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.15 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
In a book that is a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. The Perfect Vehicle is not a mere recitation of facts, nor is it a polemic or apologia. Its vivid historical accounts-the beginnings of the machine, the often hidden tradition of women who ride, the tale of the defiant ones who taunt death on the racetrack-are intertwined with Pierson's own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably don't.
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