Setting Free the Bears, by John Irving It is the 1960s, and Hannes and Siggy, fellow idealists and dropouts, set out on a picaresque tour of Austria on a 700cc Royal Enfield motorcycle. Siggy is killed in a motorcycle accident, but we get to read his journal, detailing his father's involvement with a Wehrmacht motorcycle unit. And Hannes meets a gorgeous girl who wants to climb on to the back of his bike. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig Philosophical disquisition or autobiographical novel? However you define this once-cult classic, no literary motorbiking column could omit it. The narrator introduces you to the main schools of western philosophy via metaphors from motorcycle mechanics, while travelling across the US with his son on the back of his bike On the Move", by Thom Gunn "Man, you gotta go." Gunn's poetic meditation on the California bikers h...
Setting Free the Bears, by John Irving It is the 1960s, and Hannes and Siggy, fellow idealists and dropouts, set out on a picaresque tour of Austria on a 700cc Royal Enfield motorcycle. Siggy is killed in a motorcycle accident, but we get to read his journal, detailing his father's involvement with a Wehrmacht motorcycle unit. And Hannes meets a gorgeous girl who wants to climb on to the back of his bike. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig Philosophical disquisition or autobiographical novel? However you define this once-cult classic, no literary motorbiking column could omit it. The narrator introduces you to the main schools of western philosophy via metaphors from motorcycle mechanics, while travelling across the US with his son on the back of his bike On the Move", by Thom Gunn "Man, you gotta go." Gunn's poetic meditation on the California bikers h...