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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?'" --Maria Dolan
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From my mother I learned to write prompt thank-you notes for a variety of occasions; from Mrs. King's ballroom dancing school I learned a proper curtsy and, believe it or not, what to do if presented with nine eating utensils at the same place setting, presumably at the home of the hosts to whom I had just curtsied. Read the first page
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10 stars from me,
By MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Perfect Vehicle (Paperback)
My dear friend John gave me this book as a gift because like me he is a motorcycle lover, rider, free spirit. Shy 250 pages the book can best be described as a sensual, intellectual wonder.For me it is the following quotes that bring me back re-reading and re-reading. "At precisely this moment someone, somewhere, is getting ready to ride. The motorcycle stands in a cool. dark garage, its air expectant with gas and grease. The rider approaches from outside; the door opens with a whir and a bang. The light goes on. A flame. everlasting, seem to rise on a piece of chrome. As the rider advances, leather sleeves are zipped down tight on the forearms, and the helmet briefly obliterates everything as it is pulled on, the chin strap buckled..........Soft leather gloves with studded palms, insurance against the reflex of a falling body to put its hands out in midair, go on last" "The key is slipped into the ignition at the top of the steering head. Then the rider swings a leg over the seat and sits but keeps the weight on the balls of the feet" "In the neat dance that accomplishes many operation on a motorcycle --one movement to countered by another fro, an equilibrium of give and take--the squeezed clutch lever is slowly let out while the other hand turns the trottle grip down...." This woman, this Melessia Holbrook Pierson knows what she speaks of and as I read I feel as if she is with the group I ride with on back roads through out the Sierras. The Hoggettes as we jokingly call ourselves, because we ride Harleys. So many books on riding real motorcycles are written by men. This one by this woman is the best I own. She has a wonderful section on the value of rally rides as well as loads of photographs of the history and evolution of motorcycles. And as a rider as well as a woman, wife, mother, daughter of motorcycle riders I believe the best and brightest ride motorcycles and that sons and male lovers, partners, husbands should be encouraged to own a motorcycle and ride it often.
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Best book ever on motorcycling sport and philosophy!,
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This is a must if you are interested by the motorcycling sport... plus an interesting story about the life of the author around her Moto Guzzi.
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By Thomas Hade (Delafield, WI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Perfect Vehicle (Paperback)
Besides a few obligatory negative remarks regarding white males and negative overtones about Harleys, this book is a good read. RIght off the bat we get the resume of this writer telling us she has the educational requirements to write this book. The writer is very good at putting to words what a lot of us must feel on the bike. I do feel sorry for her though, she just never seems to get that biking is just about feeling for a lot of us. THis writer seems to have it in for white, male harley riders. So, if you the reader do not care about a women riders' point of view by pass this book. However, if you are, as I am, not educated with words but interested read this book.
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