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outlier -> RE: Harley V-Rod query. (6/2/2008 3:44:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MstrObjectmaker
I am so glad I posted this thread......
You guys are great.......
But then I don't expect most women to get bikes.......
It's a good thing you used that qualifier. (most women)
This is by far the best book I have ever read about motorcycles.
The Perfect Vehicle
What It Is About Motorcycles
Here is what some others have said about it.
"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),
"This is an exceptionally sensitive and intelligent book."--Robert Pirsig
This is the motorcycle memoir for those who are sick of memoirs--or motorcycles. It is a book for people who don't know what the big deal is about riding, or why the Guggenheim Museum in New York, in a swirl of controversy, would exhibit motorcycles as works of modern art. "Riding on a motorcycle can make you feel joyous, powerful, peaceful, frightened, vulnerable, and back out to happy again," Pierson writes, "perhaps in the same ten miles. It is life compressed, its own answer to the question, 'Why?'
Every motorcycle magazine I read that wrote about it did so
with acclaim. From Sport Rider to the chopper mags.
The author's name is Melissa Holbrook Pierson. She gets motorcycles.
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