The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Instead, Ryan reluctantly removed the suit and put it outside with the bike. It had leaked so much fuel over his left leg during the fifteen-hour ride, covering 929 miles, that the dining-room staff took aside a patron at the breakfast table where Ryan had just taken a seat and asked him to 'kindly remove that man' from the room. Visit s Melissa Holbrook Pierson Page and shop for all Melissa Holbrook Pierson books. In this candid, eloquent, sharply observed book, Melissa Holbrook Pierson introduces us to this strange endeavor and the men and women who live to ride. I knew that one of them read, 'If I have to understand don’t bother to explain,' an inversion of the common dullard's claim 'If I have to explain it you wouldn’t understand.' A short time before I was falling backward onto an anonymous print bedspread in a riding-induced stupor in Florida, he had managed to get the engine to light up. 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. Bir Melissa Holbrook Pierson eseri olan The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcyclings Endless Road E-Kitap olarak en cazip fiyat ile.

He inclined his head to pull off a black helmet covered with stickers. But no, this was John, with his impossible I-have-done-what-few-mortal-men-can-do, so-what-are-you-looking-at? Bearing. Steve McQueen, a man who could do pretty much anything he wanted and frequently did, racing cars and flying planes. The exact replica of John Ryan, distinctive Aerostich and all, was dismounting from a GS.

'As I entered the back door of the lobby in Jacksonville and aimed myself toward the dining room, my eye was drawn to some activity on the other side of the glass doors at the main entrance. A captivating read, impossible to put down. Along the road you’ll meet an impressive range of other extreme riding obsessives, and gain a deeply informed understanding of motorcycling. Here is a book about hard-core, non-stop, record-crushing, subversive, all-weather, bad-ass motorcycle endurance riders-and in particular the peeled-back story of John Ryan, a living legend motorcyclist made of resolve, discipline, toughness and brains.

The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing by Melissa Holbrook Pierson