![]() She finds, when the relationship has painfully ended, that motorcycling continues to release into her blood the slow, sweet stream of self-realisation. Within its over-inflated mass, there is a precise and charming story: that of an American woman, sensitive and solitary, who falls in love with a motorbike freak. The Perfect Vehicle would have made an interesting article, or a good, much shorter book (it manages to fill 237 pages). Indeed, I wonder if the ease with which a book can be sales-pitched forms some sort of inverse relationship to its merit. They should contain ideas but they shouldn't be capable of reduction to a phrase that encapsulates their raison d'etre publie. ![]() Great idea, right? Therein lies the problem, because books shouldn't be ideas. My first reaction was that I could almost hear the sexy phrase to which The Perfect Vehicle could be reduced: something like "Memoirs of a Girl on a Motorcycle". As it happens, The Perfect Vehicle What it is About Motorcycles, by Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the first book by a female author featured in the Ultimate MotorCycling Rider’s Library. The Perfect Vehicle was not only a phenomenal freshman effort (her first book), but also an extraordinary departure from the male perspective exclusively dominating motojournalism at the time. ![]() It isn't hard to imagine how this book would have seemed like a good idea. Speaking of boys, bad and otherwise, Pierson’s voice as a female writer was particularly striking when this book first appeared in 1997. ![]()
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