Perfect Vehicle : What It Is about Motorcycles

English

ISBN: 0393318095

EAN: 9780393318098

Category: Transportation / Motorcycles / General

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

Release Date: 05/31/1998

Synopsis: 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 Piersons own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably dont.

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Perfect Vehicle : What It Is about Motorcycles

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.7 inches

Width: 6.1 inches

Length: 8.3 inches

Weight: 10.9 oz

Pages: 240