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Leanings: Best of Peter Egan from Cycle World | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Egan
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 195194
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0760311587
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.75
EAN: 9780760311585
ASIN: 0760311587
Publication Date: July 1, 2002
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Product Description
Since his work first graced Cycle World magazine in 1977, Peter Egan has graciously taken his readers along on his adventures. The range of motorcycle riding reports cover runs along the Mississippi River to New Orleans for a tin of chicory coffee or flying to Japan to test-ride new Yamahas. In Leanings, Egans favorite feature articles and columns have been reprinted for the first time, including his trip cross-country on a British twin with his wife and a journey on the abandoned Route 66, plus many more stories about the open road.
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 Rated as good read, an enjoyable collection of magazine column stories. December 14, 2008
Eric A. Kemsuzian (Buckeye Centre)
Peter Egan is the author of the Side Glances column in Road & Track magazine and the Leanings column in Cycle World magazine. He is noted by his readers as having a self-deprecating, ironic, and sometimes dark sense of humor, including detailed accounts of the failings of his vehicles.
A rider's writer December 14, 2008
William Jacobs (Columbia, MD USA)
Peter Egan loves motorcycles, and lives to write about them, the folks who ride them, and the places and states of being we experience while riding. His style is conversational and casual yet intelligent and informed, as though you were having a fireside chat over a beer with the world's greatest guru on the subject who just happens to be a humble ordinary guy like you. And you are. In this collection of some of his best columns and feature articles from Cycle World magazine, where he has been a contributing editor since 1978, Peter shares with us his love of the sport of motorcycling, the bikes and riders he has known, and several keen-eyed journals of his travels to some of the world's most beautiful curvy-road places, including the green hills of his native Wisconsin. This book is a must-have for any thinking motorcycle fan.
Fun book, even if you don't love Motorcycles November 28, 2008
Mikel Montgomery (Derby, KS USA)
This is a wonderful book that really captures a lot of things besides motorcycles. The thrill of discovering new country, staying in cheap motels, dodging weather, and enjoying life all come through in this book. Mr. Egan discusses all of his experiences, from finding and fixing old motorcycles through trips with his wife with a sense of bemused wonderment, never taking himself too seriously. A great book, highly recommended.
Outstanding read August 6, 2008
B. Bates (Santa Fe, NM USA)
Outstanding book on motorcycling. Some of it funny, so of it thought provocing. If you like/love motorcycles, you will love this book. A collection of the author's from Cycle World Magazine.
The motorcycle writer of our era September 4, 2007
Alan C. Simkin (Ellicott City, Maryland USA)
Peter Egan is among a very small and very distingushed group of writers who have the ability to invite the reader along on their adventures. He is to motorcycling what Gene Hill, Peter Capstick, and Gordon MacQuarie were to hunting - and that is very fine company to be in. When you read his stories, you're with him, riding alongside, enjoying the adventure with him, and sometimes his Wife. His eloquent, descriptive turn of phrase combined with his ability to create unique and thought-provoking analogies makes for smooth, sophisticated, and absorbing reading. To Egan, a motorcycle is far more than the sum of its mechanical parts. It's freedom, dreams - both old and new, exploring, learning about yourself, your country and culture. Through Egan's words, motorcycles bring out the best in the human spirit. Reading his writing makes you glad that you're a part of the motorcycling fraternity, and reminds you why you love motorcycles so much. Enjoy this book, and then get a copy of "Leanings II" and relive the enjoyment all over again. These are books that you will reread, perhaps in part, over and over, and enjoy just as much each time you read them.
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