![]() ![]() The Perfect Vehicle added depth and context to what I gleaned from reading motorcycle magazines and talking to other motorcyclists, giving me a more well-rounded understanding of the source of my new-found passion. ![]() ![]() Not only did Pierson artfully articulate the full spectrum of emotions, sensations and experiences that are familiar to any motorcyclist and evoke the “ride to live, live to ride” credo, she educated me about the exciting new world I had come to inhabit. Within the first year or two of my own love affair with motorcycling, I read-no, I devoured- The Perfect Vehicle. And the following year, in 1998, while struggling my way through graduate school in Philadelphia, I bought a motorcycle and learned to ride. Nearly seven decades later, in 1997, American author Melissa Holbrook Pierson published The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles, a delightful book that chronicles her love affair with motorcycles (Moto Guzzis in particular) as well as the unique cultural and historical landscape of the two-wheeled world. ![]() In his 1929 short story, Chains, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy hatched the idea of six degrees of separation, whereby every person on earth could be connected to every other person on earth through a “friend of a friend” chain with six or fewer links. ![]()
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