The Perfect Vehicle – What Is It About Motorcycles (Paper): 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 Piersons own story which in itself shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle you probably dont.