Man Who Would Stop at Nothing : Long-Distance Motorcyclings Endless Road

English

ISBN: 039307904X

EAN: 9780393079043

Category: Transportation / Motorcycles / General

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Release Date: 09/29/2011

Synopsis: For the 50,000 members of the Iron Butt Association ???also known as the Worlds Toughest Motorcyclists ???long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. These men and women push the limits of human endurance, often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan, a diabetic and a man who even in late middle age loves nothing better than riding impossible distances at no small risk to himself. But why? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, herself a longtime motorcyclist, chronicles the gratifications of long-distance riding as well as the challenges and solitude that accompany it. In seeking to understand why people strive so mightily to reach a goal with no reward other than having gotten there, Pierson gives us an intimate glimpse of a singularly independent yet supportive community and a revealing portrait of its most daring member.

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Man Who Would Stop at Nothing : Long-Distance Motorcyclings Endless Road

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.8 inches

Width: 5.8 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 10.9 oz

Pages: 191