![]() ![]() In 2011, her “The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing Long-distance Motorcycling’s Endless Road” introduced me to the world of long-distance motorcycling and the Iron Butt Association. Melissa Pierson (left) and John Ryan help inspire an Iron Butt rider. Like many of us, I fell in love with Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s first book, “The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles” and Moto Guzzis along the way. Innumerable thunder roads that wind through moonshine hills in Virginia and West Virginia and Kentucky and Tennessee and North Carolina. Sweepers north in the Shenandoah Valley on Route 42 in the footsteps of generals McDowell and McClellan and Jackson and Hunter and Breckinridge and Sheridan. I wander roads promising beauty and history and vistas and exhilaration. Most of my mototravels seek out the places I could go by car, but don’t. We don’t ponder the nature of pavement, but I do - or, at least that’s what I’m doing as I stand on the southbound lane of Interstate 81. We make these determinations in milliseconds. As riders, we’e always aware of road surfaces: Dry? Oily? Cracked? ![]()
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