 | Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend by Patrick Symmes
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.69 Symmes enjoyably blends the story of the book's focus with a great narrative on plowing a BMW around South America.
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 | Half Baked in Taiwan by Beth Fowler
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $7.22 I understand the chapter on motorycling in Taiwan is to die for.
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 | Motorcycle Vagabonding in Japan by Guy De LA Rupelle
Buy used from: $93.00 Excellent how-to guide mixed together with a competent travel guide.
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 | Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime by Gary Paulsen
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.16 Paulsen deserves at least a little kudos for presenting a short book on a long trip.
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 | The Perfect Vehicle: What It is about Motorcycles by Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.94 Peirson is the best writer on two wheels--her book is a must-read history, travelogue, and confessional.
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 | The Tao of the Ride: Motorcycles and the Mechanics of the Soul by Garri Garripoli
Buy new: $9.85 / Used from: $3.84 Though Garripoli apparently read _Zen_ a few times too many, the short book offers some rewards.
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 | Jupiter's Travels : Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon
Buy used from: $9.97 Simon is the Hercules of the motorcycle writing genre, and this book makes you want to quit your job and just hit the road.
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 | BMW Motorcycles 1971-76 Gold Portfolio by R.M. Clarke
Buy new: $24.05 / Used from: $15.00 Wonderful excerpts of motorcycle mags' treatment of the classiest bike ever: BMW /5
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 | Going the Extra Mile: Insider Tips for Long-Distance Motorcycling and Endurance Rallies by Ron Ayres
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.00 Reasonable, straightforward, but short book for prospective iron-butt novices
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 | Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well by David L. Hough
Buy used from: $7.00 From lane placement strategy to emergency braking, Hough tells us what to know to survive and enjoy
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 | More Proficient Motorcycling: Mastering the Ride by David L. Hough
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $13.41 Hough's follow-up provides some additional knowledge, though the value added is questionable
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 | A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding by Keith Code
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.50 Any book that helps ameliorate riders' natural "survival reactions" may not be the right book for all bikers...
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 | She's a Bad Motorcycle: Writers on Riding
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.46 Eclectic and uneven amalgam of motorcycle lit, great gift or intro to the genre (includes Pierson, Guevera, Hunter S., Wolfe, Hinton, etc)
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 | The Biker Code: Wisdom for the Ride by Stuart Miller
Buy new: $13.19 / Used from: $0.01 Very small impulse-buy book with great biker-face photography and few words.
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 | Storm: A Motorcycle Journey of Love, Endurance, and Transformation (Travelers' Tales Footsteps) by Allen Noren
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $1.73 Warm, embracing language telling a two-up two-wheeled travel tale around the Baltic Sea. Emphasis is more on human connectivity than bikes.
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 | Purple Mountains: America from a Motorcycle by Notch Miyake
Buy used from: $5.86 Miyake pilots a beemer GS all around North America and lives to tell, but writes in staccato. Overall nice travelogue.
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 | Long Way Round
Buy used from: $26.98 With a little bit of Jedi in him, McGreor and his mate Boorman take an absolutely enviable trip around the planet with camera in tow. Must have.
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 | One Man Caravan ("Incredible Journeys" Books) by Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.99 It all starts here: R. E. Fulton Jr. takes an (armed) tour around the pre-WWII world on a Douglas bike in 1932-33. Lots of pictures in this great reprint.
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