Great idea for a thread! I've sort of gotten away from actual book reading, but there is nothing better than a hot cup of coffee, a warm blanket, and a real live book on chilly mornings.

 

Go to advrider.com
There are days/weeks of fantstic reading there, in their Ride Reports section.

 

Go to advrider.com

There are days/weeks of fantstic reading there, in their Ride Reports section.

Yeah I'd like to get away from the computer screen and read an actual book. I will check that out though.


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I know this is an online story but worth reading now they are done. Three guys on motorcycles ride from NJ. to Ca. and back in 33 days this year from 8/1/15 - 9/23/15. http://www.6onasphalt.com/.I liked the story because I own one of the bikes similar to one in story, a

1982 Honda GL500I Silverwing. Here's my bike on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park one of the best 105 miles to ride even though its 35mph.. Here's another look under great roads.http://www.ridermagazine.com/

 

I just finished a set of 3 books about a motorcycle guy who was part of an outlaw MC, and got saved in prison, and became the 'Outlaw Preacher'. The series by John Andrews talks a little about the MC lifestyle, but all were really well written. The 3 books are titled, 'The Outlaw Preacher', 'The Outlaw Preacher-The Miracle', and 'The Outlaw Preacher-Redemption'. Got them off Kindle, and even got my wife to read them, which she really enjoyed, too.

I have subscribed to a couple websites which send me emails every day with cheap or FREE e-books, which you can get from different sources. Some are only from Amazon, and others are available also from Kobo, Nook, etc. OHFB.com is probably the best I've dealt with so far. They have DOZENS of e-books for FREE, EVERY day! You can also select which genre of books you want to be notified about. BookBub.com, ManyBooks.com, and eBookDaily.com are other ones that are also good. Sometimes I will get a book for Free from one email, and it will then be offered the next day or week from one of the other sites, and sometimes I will only see it for Free on ONE of these sites/emails, but the others will have it for a cheap price. This is the reason I use ALL of them, because I have been able to gradually over time get entire series of books, sometimes from some rather 'big name' authors, ALL for Free! I highly recommend this method for getting your reading fix as cheaply as possible.

 

Daniel Meyer's Life is a Road book is said to be entertaining, he has several books out.

 

+1 on Daniel Meyer

 

Neil Peart wrote one back in 2002 about his motorcycle ride through North and Central America after losing his daughter and wife. I have not read it but have heard good things about it. The name of the book is Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road.

 

I have to second the recommendation of Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart. He took off on multi country bike tour after the tragic loss of his daughter and wife. Parts of the book get a bit maudlin, as one would expect, but he also does an excellent job of putting in to words the thoughts that go through ones mind as you ride across large expanses of the country on two wheels. He describes places he's been and people he met on the road as only someone who don't thousands of miles at a stretch can do. Granted, the book resounded with me for a number of reasons: I have always went on extended bike rides after coming home from deployments for therapeutic reasons and I've always been a big RUSH fan and a Neil Peart fan.

As a disclaimer, I read "Zen, and the art of motorcycle maintenance" some years back and I felt it was pompous trash. Way too much zen, little to no motorcycle maintenance.

 

ok, I know quoting myself is kind of weird.... but.... speaking of road trips and all, I just found my best bud and HSN member squidchief is on his way back. Was just given instructions to set up a road trip. Kind of a sketchy time of the year so we'll probably be cruising through Arizona and New Mexico. Might be interesting to dig up Neil Pearts book and try to recreate that part of his epic trip.

 

Ghost rider has been mentioned multiple times now. So that must mean something. I'll have to look into that one for sure.


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I should have been keeping a list, but since Neil Peartvis also an avid reader, he drops lots of book names within Ghost Rider. So if you start there, and make a list whilst reading, you may have plenty to keep you busy for the winter. I always seem to need a recommendation to get started on a new book, as I have trouble just picking one off the shelf of thousands. Maybe we should do a Honda Shadow Forum book exchange?

 

Book exchange.....I would be interested in that!


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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of my favorites

 

Courtesy of the Gutenberg Project, check out "Across America by Motorcycle". You want to read this ebook even if it is online. This guy was fresh from the trenches of WW1 and decided to explore America on a Henderson in 1919. Here is a link.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44505?msg=welcome_stranger

If you go to ADV, one Ride Report NOT to be missed is:

Virginia to Alaska and back on an '86 Yamaha Radian | Adventure Rider

Someday it will be re-written into a book. Personally, I think it would be a incredible movie. It's not finished yet, either.

 

Last year, I picked up this at the Progressive Motorcycle Show:

Peter Starr - Taking it to the Limit

http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Limit-...arr/dp/0615301401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424038083&sr=8-1&keywords=Peter+Starr

Great read & a really cool guy. Totally worth the purchase.


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