An icon for the outlaw, the rebel, the thief, and the beat poet, everyone from Tom Waits and Arlo Guthrie to Hunter Thompson and Robert Pirsig has written about the motorcycle. The Devil Can Ride offers the best of the vast collection of motorcycle writing created since old Gottlieb Daimler first bolted a crude internal-combustion engine to his wooden two-wheeled Einspur in 1876.
Would Lawrence of Arabia have been as popular a film if the main character had died from slipping in his bathtub in the opening sequence instead of crashing his Brough Superior motorcycle? Would The Great Escape have been as powerful had Steve McQueen pole vaulted the fence instead of jumping it with his motorcycle? Would Marlon Brando have become America's archetypal bad boy had he done The Wild One clad in plaid and driving a golf cart instead of leather and a Triumph Thunderbird? Hell no-the motorcycle is as much a part of these films as the actors playing the leading roles.
Since the earliest years of the sport, the motorcycle has been an icon of rebellion. As such it has been celebrated in all forms of popular art: film, in song, and especially in print. For The Devil Can Ride, editor and motorcycle journalist Lee Klancher scoured magazine archives and book lists to collect the most engaging and thought provoking motorcycle writing of all time.
Authors, poets, and songwriters like Tom Waits, Arlo Guthrie, Hunter Thompson, and Robert Pirsig have written about the motorcycle, that icon for outlaws, rebels, thieves, and beat poets. This collection of motorcycle tales features the best of the vast collection of motorcycle writing created since old Gottlieb Daimler first bolted a crude internal-combustion engine to his wooden two-wheeled Einspur in 1876. In addition to essays from writers like Thompson and Pirsig, The Devil Can Ride features writers like Peter Egan, Fred Hafele, Patrick Symmes, Ewan McGregor, and Jim Rogers. Photographs, old posters, tickets, and other appropriate art and memorabilia illustrate this literary collection.
The book features:
Peter Egan
Fred Hafele, Rebuilding the Indian
Patrick Symmes, Chasing Che
Ted Simon
Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round
Robert E. Fulton Jr, One Man Caravan
Dave Barr, Riding the Edge
Werner Bausenhar, Africa: Against the Clock on a Motorcycle; Into the Den of the Bear and the Lair of the Dragon on a Motorcycle
Ron Ayres, Against the Wind
Michael Fong, A Tankful of Time
Rik K. Haffar, Away From My Desk
Flash Gordon MD, Blood, Sweat & Gears
Steve Krzystyniak, Bitten by the Bullet
Jonathan Gregson, Bullet Up the Grand Turk Road
Chris Scott, Desert Travels
Maxwell Gardiner, Four Legs, Two Wheels and Half a Brain
Tom Cunliffe, Good Vibrations
Ann Ferrar, Hear Me Roar
Hunter S. Thompson, Hells Angels, Revenge of the Sausage Monster
Richard La Plante, Hog Fever
Tom Smith, In the Long Run
Sam Manicom, Into Africa
Jim Rogers, Investment Biker
Jerry Smith, Into the Heart of Africa
Owen L. Riess, La Ropa Sucia: A Motorcycle Adventure Through Mexico
Daniel Meyer, Life is a Road
Al Culler, Motorcycle Travels and Travails
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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