{"product_id":"9780393318098","title":"The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring.\"—The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003eIn a book that is \"a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle\" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. The Perfect Vehicle is not a mere recitation of facts, nor is it a polemic or apologia. Its vivid historical accounts-the beginnings of the machine, the often hidden tradition of women who ride, the tale of the defiant ones who taunt death on the racetrack-are intertwined with Pierson's own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably don't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013078368496,"sku":"9780393318098","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393318098_p0.jpg?v=1763769619","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393318098","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}