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"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), 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.
This book about the love of motorcycling takes a winding route, past a landscape both subtle and dramatic, literary and experiential. It makes for a ride you are not likely to forget. The Perfect Vehicle includes marvelous vintage and contemporary photographs. 224 pp.
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Katherine Carbin
reviewed Perfect Vehicle: What It Is about Motorcycles on March 06, 2016
Perfect Vehicle: What It Is about Motorcycles
"(and where is the Susan Sontag who will write an erotics of highly specialized equipment?)" the author bemoans, oblivious that she is the damn closest thing. The Perfect Vehicle is the book every author before and after Pierson wanted to write about motorcycles but couldn't. In lieu of trite wanderlust narratives and tired outlaw tales, she so poetically tells us the joy of simply fitting with the machine and taking off on it. The book is periodically dissected into tales from, thoughts about, and history of the road. Women riders especially will read chapter 7 and feverishly nod their heads in agreement over the many sexist exchanges one will have on the road -- some covert, some less so. I'm knocking a star off because the book was too easy to put down, and I often did. The book is not gripping, but a humble love letter from a woman to her machine.
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