She's a Bad Motorcycle Writers on Riding

Why do People Ride Motorcycles? It's not to get from one place to the other. Thomas Krens, curator of The Art of the Motorcycle, the most popular exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, has written: "For much of society, the motorcycle remains a forbidden indulgence, an object of fantasy, and danger." And of envy. No other machine is thought of as the vehicle -- "the perfect vehicle" Melissa Holbrook Pierson calls it -- of rebellion, lawlessness, and freedom. She's A Bad Motorcycle seeks out the common source of the tribal ferocity of the motorcycle gang and the near solipsistic inwardness of the lone rider. All relish risk and learn to disregard pain in their insistence on a freedom that is a hallmark of their self-created identity. From the genre-defining -- and exploding -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to Hell's Angel, the motorcycle has inspired a startlingly rich and unabashedly romantic body of writing that celebrates the risks and exhilaration of the journey to self-discovery. Book jacket.Zanetti, Geno is the author of 'She's a Bad Motorcycle Writers on Riding' with ISBN 9781560253174 and ISBN 1560253177.