With a Harley owner? That's the kind of stuff that might have given this tale a jump-start. Could Pierson, who rides a Moto Guzzi, have a meaningful friendship ''The Perfect Vehicle'' gives some sense of the community of bikers, of their loyalty to their bikes and to one another, but not much about who they are. Motorcycle races, motorcycle statistics, famous cyclists (George Bernard Shaw, Charles Lindbergh, Elvis Presley and Ann Richards, the former Governor of Texas, among them) and Pierson's cyclist boyfriends who didn't work out. She cites, as well, the ''appealing athleticism of the endeavor,'' and goes on to recount journeys, rallies, maintenance lessons and lots of not very spellbinding history: of motorcycles themselves, women on motorcycles, they want a way to feel fully engaged with and even vulnerable to their surroundings.'' Of certain bikes'' can ''wring the emotions dry.'' People ''make epic journeys on two wheels because. What People are Saying About This Robert Pirsig This is an exceptionally sensitive and intelligent book. Vehicle.'' What exactly, on a quiet country road with birds twittering and cows mooing, does a noisy motor bring to the party? ''Like an aria,'' Melissa Holbrook Pierson says, ''the exhaust note Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. F you want to know what's so great about riding motorcycles (without actually having to do it), read the first chapter and the postscript of ''The Perfect
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