![]() ![]() With a Harley owner? That's the kind of stuff that might have given this tale a jump-start. Could Pierson, who rides a Moto Guzzi, have a meaningful friendship ''The Perfect Vehicle'' gives some sense of the community of bikers, of their loyalty to their bikes and to one another, but not much about who they are. Motorcycle races, motorcycle statistics, famous cyclists (George Bernard Shaw, Charles Lindbergh, Elvis Presley and Ann Richards, the former Governor of Texas, among them) and Pierson's cyclist boyfriends who didn't work out. She cites, as well, the ''appealing athleticism of the endeavor,'' and goes on to recount journeys, rallies, maintenance lessons and lots of not very spellbinding history: of motorcycles themselves, women on motorcycles, ![]() The common thread leading to my second book, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, was the attempt to chart a human obsession, in this case the inordinate love of. ![]() ![]() they want a way to feel fully engaged with and even vulnerable to their surroundings.'' So without knowing that it would end up as my first published book, I started writing notes that began in a bubbling up of passion and curiosity and finished with The Perfect Vehicle. Of certain bikes'' can ''wring the emotions dry.'' People ''make epic journeys on two wheels because. Vehicle.'' What exactly, on a quiet country road with birds twittering and cows mooing, does a noisy motor bring to the party? ''Like an aria,'' Melissa Holbrook Pierson says, ''the exhaust note F you want to know what's so great about riding motorcycles (without actually having to do it), read the first chapter and the postscript of ''The Perfect ![]()
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