The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Book Overview

For the 50,000 members of the Iron Butt Association--also known as the "World's Toughest Motorcyclists"--long-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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039307904X
• ISBN13: 9780393079043
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.5"