Product Description

•A classic novel of modern times.
•A new definitive voice of the Boomer Generation.
•"Easy Rider"…the day after.

MotorcycleMan: Restless by Phil Englehardt, is the story of Ian Payne, a middle-aged man, who’s a product of the 60s, and Englehardt’s fictional shadow twin. Payne is going through a crisis and decides to shed the life he’s created, and quickly finds there are no easy answers.

The dream of dreams begins, as he starts a new journey and winds his way across America. The stories start and keep on coming as MotorcycleMan reports from the front lines of male mid-life crisisville. Payne’s quest for personal fulfillment takes the reader on a freewheeling ride through drugs, depression, and raw sensuality, to a quiet rebirth, and confidence in his newly recovered independence. Payne is looking to find himself, and understand his next chapter of life. Reconnecting with his youth by taking a bold step forward into his future.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #690018 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 187 pages

Review
"A great read...experts tell us how to categorize midlife crisis, but Motorcycle Man experiences it in living color." -- Ed Rowan, MD, Author of Joy of Self-Pleasuring

"A slim, fast paced pseudomemoir, that might just save a few marriages...an intoxicating punch...philosophical reverie and raw sensuality." -- New Hampshire Magazine

"Englehardt is looking over the shoulder of every boomer, creeping into their midlife discontent and loving it." -- Electra Alessio, Carriage Towne News, editor and publisher

"No man is ever truly free without a Harley." -- Bethany Gordon, Laconia Citizen

"Written in the street-wise style of Kerouac and filled with lots of NH scenes, ending up at Laconia's Bike Week." -- Roger Amsden, New Hampshire Sunday News

From the Publisher
Several thousand copies of MotorycycleMan: Restless have been sold throughout the USA since it's publication in April of 2004. Phil Englehardt's positive message of midlife and motorcycles is one readers and riders have been waiting to hear. He continues to appear as a media guest, and to make live appearances in New England. Englehardt speaks candidly about life events which inspired his creation of the world of MotorcycleMan and the book series. Restless is the first installment, and leaves the reader more than ready for the next installment, Voodoo Moon.

Englehardt's special brand of motorcycle mid-life transition provides great entertainment, but also takes each reader on a journey down the highway within.

From the Author
Phil Englehardt is a Renaissance man in the truest sense of the word. He writes in the tradition of Kerouac’s On the Road, from the point of view of a man who has known the road; loved it, endured it, and learned from it. He gives a voice to middle class, frustrated boomers, but veils their fears in hope, by setting an example of adventure. He gives voice to life as he sees it, as it flows by him and his Harley.

For Englehardt, the book, along with his Harley, are the vehicles for his message of midlife rejuvenation: "MotorcycleMan: Restless is a story of spirit. What people fear most is slowly losing their dreams to the ticking clock. Ian Payne confronts that fear and takes on his destiny," says Englehardt.

Philosophy of mid-life aka the MotorcycleMan.…

"Say you just turned 50 and are fresh from a divorce. Why it’s almost a rite of passage to buy a Harley-Davidson."

"Today, if you hear a loud bike ripping up your street, there’s a 50 percent chance a bald guy is driving it."

Customer Reviews

Take a ride with Motorcycleman!
Whether you're a guy or gal, I promise you won't get restless. Once you read the first page you won't want to put it down. I felt like the author morphed me into the main character, Ian, by his third sentence: "Work envelopes me, relationships confuse me, and Budweiser medicates me."

Ian is the working-class guy-next door. He's "just reached the dark side of his forties," knowing his life has to change after years of slinging hash in his donut shop. Upon the advice of a gypsy (a "Yes" card from an antique automated fortune teller in a seaside arcade), Ian buys a Road King. As he goes through the process of loosening his load, Ian tells you the story of his life in the first person, introducing the fascinating array of people in his life. So real, they jump off the page and you're playing cards with them.

I am more like Ian's (soon-to-be ex?) wife Emily, a middle-aged woman going to graduate school, than I am like Ian. However, like Emily, I appreciate a man's man, tough on the outside, caring on the inside, and middle-aged sexy all over. I'm afraid to ride a motorcyle, but I'd jump on the back of his Harley any day!

If you've had a bitch of a day and need to get out of town and back before bedtime, get this quick read!

Female...was I supposed to read this!??
So, this book allowed me a little further into the "guys world" then I have been before!
Englehardt, with his colorful writing, holding nothing back (or so it seems), made me feel like I was on this adventurious ride right along with him, what a great experience I had!
Recommended reading for any adult any where.