The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles

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
Published: 05/01/1998
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.15w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780393318098

About the Author
Pierson, Melissa Holbrook: - Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.