The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles

The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780393078367


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"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New Yorker 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.


The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of tou
The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-05-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The author discusses her ten-year love affair with motorcycles, providing historical and social accounts of motorcycles and motorcyclists in an attempt to provi
The Perfect Vehicle
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Categories: Motorcycles
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Granta Books (UK)

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Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-03 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Matt Stone
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-06 - Publisher: Motorbooks

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