The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
Paperback 241 pages English May 17, 1998
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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.
- Author:
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:
- May 17, 1998
- Number of pages:
- 241 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0393318095
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393318098