Jupiter’s Travels tells the adventure of Ted Simon’s four year odyssey around the world The best known of Ted Simons books. It tells the story of his 1973 odyssey, a four-year journey around the world on a Triumph motorcycle. The first half of the journey takes the reader from Tunis to Capetown, then around South America from the tip of […]
“A company born almost by chance but always steered by passion.” 2016 is the ninetieth anniversary of Ducati, founded on July 4, 1926, by three brothers, Adriano, Bruno, and Marcello Cavalieri Ducati. To commemorate the anniversary Ducati released the book, Ducati 90 years of Italian excellence. The 320 pages and 390 illustrations are entirely dedicated […]
Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a meditation on how to live better. The book describes a seventeen-day summer motorcycle trip across the United States from Minneapolis, Minnesota to California undertaken by a father and his […]
Basem Wasef’s fascination with all things mechanical spans back to his childhood in London, where he was known to sing “Happy Birthday” to his extensive collection of Matchbox cars. In his book Lengendary Motorcycles Basem views motorcycles as mythical, far more than mere transportation, and some are in a class of their own. Legendary machines […]
