Overview

"For the past three years Aaron Heinrich has interviewed over fifty motorcyclists for his popular web magazine, asphaltanddirt.com, dispelling the myth of the stereotypical ""biker."" As these stories reveal, there is no one definition of what a motorcyclist is and that any description is as varied as the riders who make up the motorcycling community-no two are alike, other than their shared love of two wheels. Here are the stories of motorcyclists that run the gamut of the motorcycling world, from well-known and famous to unknown and obscure, from builders and tinkerers to racers and tourers. Here are world travelling adventurers and local riders, collectors and icons in the industry, motorcycle clubs to lone riders. Some are single, others are fathers or mothers, and still others are grandparents, and their passion covers from vintage days to modern times. Their stories are meant to inspire, amuse and shed some light on this world, and dispel society's myopic stereotype of what it ultimately means to be a biker."

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Author:   Aaron Heinrich
Publisher:   Lost Classics Book Company
Imprint:   Lost Classics Book Company
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.70cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781890623531

ISBN 10:   1890623539
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   07 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

"About the Author v In the Beginning... 1 Meet Joe D 7 How Mark Wilsmore Aced It 15 Simple Is Hard and We're All Going to Die 23 From Boardroom to Showroom 31 It's A Dirty Business 37 It's Better the Faster You Go 43 50-Plus at 150 mph 49 Of Golf, Cooking, and Riding 55 Blame It on Ewan and Charley 61 Making an Impression 67 Crossing the Line 73 Roads Less Traveled 79 Bits, Bytes, Eat, Sleep, Ride...Repeat 85 Screw Impulse Control 91 Keepin' the Dream Alive 97 Nails, Caffeine, and Bikes 105 One-Wheeled Racing Wonders 113 Transformation on Two Wheels 121 Sometimes It's Just About the Ride 127 Stuntman, Weapons Expert, Biker, Writer 133 Sons of Thunder-a Different Kind of MC 139 Chew on This 147 100 Hundred Dollars and a Piece of Pie 153 Furey Road 161 Impatience is a Virtue 167 Blame It on the Kids 173 Loaded Gun Customs 179 When Jayson Warner Smith Learned to Fly 185 Painting Is Not a Numbers Game 193 Defy Expectations 199 More Than One Thing at a Time 207 Ride It, Write It, Own It 215 Run Ryan, Run Riot 221 Keeping Things Interesting 227 The Upside of Pain 233 Keeping History Alive 239 Boredom Sucks! 245 Go Your Own Way 251 Life Doesn't Always Fit Like a Glove 259 What ""Cider Run"" Means to Erin Hunter Sills 265 Women Can Ride 273 Riding With Ants 281 Get Out of Your Own Way 289 Answering the Call of the Wild 297 Boxer, Biker, Painter 305 What Doesn't Kill You... 311 A Life at Full Throttle 319 Necessity Made Robert Pandya 325 A View from the Back 333 Stilettos on Steel 339 Posers Not Allowed 347 Phil Morris Preserves Motorcycling's Fast Past 355 Acknowledgements 361 Appendix 363"

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"It's no surprise that Aaron created Asphalt & Dirt (www.asphaltanddirt.com). It gratified his perpetual need to answer two of his favorite questions: ""I wonder where that road goes, and what's the story here?"" Aaron is a lifelong journalist and storyteller who published his first writing at the age of twelve-a letter to the editor for his local junior high school's clean up project. The power of the written word grabbed him and fueled Aaron's desire to take his writing even further. He went on to obtain an undergraduate degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and an MFA in screenwriting from the University of Southern California. But a writing career is not where Aaron headed from there. Financial expediency sent him down the path of public relations and marketing. Since making that choice, he's worked with large global companies like Microsoft, FedEx and T-Mobile, and startups to medium-sized companies launching a literal plethora of new devices and services. Never far away, though, was an innate curiosity for what lie just beyond the next twisty or bend in the road. After a nearly twenty-five-year hiatus, he got back on a motorcycle and proceeded to rack up mile after mile exploring the freeways, highways, and backroads of the West. Several years later, he launched the website Asphalt & Dirt as a platform for telling the stories of individual riders, regardless of what or where they rode. The stories shared in Asphalt & Dirt cover the roads traveled and lives led of interesting people from all walks of life and all parts of the world. While Aaron continues to help companies of all sizes create and improve their brand stories, he profoundly understands what it means to share the fascinating journey of the human spirit-especially of those who are intimately one with road, wherever it may take them."

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