Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-443).
Table of Contents
Preface / Thomas Krens -- Issues in the evolution of the motorcycle / Charles M. Falco -- Cycles of paradox / Mark Taylor, Josâe Mâarquez -- Song of the sausage creature / Hunter S. Thompson -- The art of the motorcycle: Outlaws, animals, and sex machines / Ted Polhemus -- Bikes were always work for me / Dennis Hopper -- Freedom of death: Notes on the motorcycle in film and video / Art Simon -- Bosozoku (motorcycle gangs) / Ikuya Sato -- To the edge: Motorcycles and danger / Melissa Holbrook Pierson -- Inventing the motorcycle: 1868-1919 / Vanessa Rocco -- The machine age: 1922-1929 / Matthew Drutt -- New world orders: 1930-1944 / Matthew Drutt -- Freedom and postwar mobility: 1946-1958 / Greg Jordan -- Popular culture/counterculture: 1960-1969 / Greg Jordan -- Getting away from it all: 1969-1978 / Sarah Botts -- The consumer years: 1982-1989 / Sarah Botts -- Retro/revolutionary: 1993-1998 / Ultan Guilfoyle -- Exhibition checklist -- Motorcycle books / Charles M. Falco.