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 It's about the ride...
I loved this book, the analogies, the written thoughts...If you ride, it's a must read-
Nice - enjoyable read
I read this as soon as it arrived....only took a few hours. No tough reading, just an enjoyable winters read, while wishing you could be riding.
 Saddlebag Worthy
This book offers a new slant on some Daoist principles for living, but you should probably be a biker to fully appreciate his descriptions and metaphors. I would've packaged the book a bit different and left out the short stories from Garri's friends, but hey, it still has a great message on finding your path and he offers us some real quotable gems of wisdom. It's short and I like that - just the right size for a weekend solo ride. Worth the money.
 Disappointed
To be fair, I only made it through about 25 pages of this book, but that is because it was such a tremendous disappointment to me. His connections between Taoism and motorcycles were weak at best, the book was incredibly repetitive, and was just not that informative on any topic, really. Maybe someday I will pick it up again and love it, but for now I have started Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and am in love with it. For the money, buy it instead.
 Not for most RIDERS
My wife (the book nut) bought this for me. I can read a technical manual from cover to cover and enjoy every word, I am a biker, I love bikes. I really don't need some prophet of psycho-babble to tell me why I like to ride. Yes, there were a few universal statements that fit the attitude of most any biker, but, bikers are unique individuals, not to be generalized, classified or categorized. Admittedly, I skimmed most of the book and was unable to complete the whole thing. Do you want to by a biker friend/spouse a book?....get them a manual, better yet, buy them a tool.
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