num_pages: 208
description: Here are the pleasures and perils of compulsive long-distance motorcyclingand one man's mission to outride everyone else.For the 50000 members of the Iron Butt Associationalso known as the World's Toughest Motorcyclistslong-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. These men and women push the limits of human endurance often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan a diabetic and a man who even in late middle age loves nothing better than riding impossible distances at no small risk to himself. But why? Melissa Holbrook Pierson herself a longtime motorcyclist chronicles the gratifications of long-distance riding as well as the challenges and solitude that accompany it. In seeking to understand why people strive so mightily to reach a goal with no reward other than having gotten there Pierson gives us an intimate glimpse of a singularly independent yet supportive community and a revealing portrait of its most daring member.
language: English
title: The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company