These are among the best stories ever written about a life of motorcycle riding, motorcycling sub-cultures and motorcycle people. Bob’s a gifted writer whose motorcycle- related accomplishments are both numerous and impressive (see below).This is a two-volume collection of his best stories, over thirty years of the the cream of his most popular published work.The range is immense, from provocative exposés of industry and club corruption, stupidity and hypocrisy... to brilliantly deep character studies and absorbingly funny and elegiac essays about trips, experiences, adventures and absurdities. Altogether the set includes more than sixty of Bob’s long-unavailable articles and stories.The stories were originally published all over the place: Motorcyclist magazine,The Iron Butt Association News, Rider magazine, BMW Riders Association’s On The Level, BMW Motorcycle Owners of America Owner’s News and many others. This is among the best-ever writing about intersection of motorcycles, peoples and cultures. Bob’s a moto-culture writing genius.This is an unforgettable collection. If you like reading funny, precise, heretical and brilliantly compelling stuff, read this book. By Bob Higdon. Softbound, 6”×9”, b/w illus.
Scan Bob’s moto-life in bullets, then buy his book:
- 1987 Set record for shortest time to touch all contiguous U.S. states
- 1989 Circumnavigated Australia with Mike Kneebone
- 1990-1991 Worked with the AMA and other attorneys to force Virginia to open HOV lanes to motorcyclists
- 1991-2009 Wrote 164 columns for BMW RA magazine
- 1991-2009 BMW MOA high-mileage contests results: 1st (3), 2nd (2), 3rd (1)
- 1992 Named AMA Road Rider of the Year
- 1993-1995Vice-president of BMW MOA club
- 1996 Inducted into BMWBMW Hall of Fame
- 2001 Completed the Iron Butt Rally
- 2004 from the Pacific to the Atlantic across Siberia, Russia, and Europe
- 2003-2008 Rode to every county courthouse in the continental U.S. (3,069)
- 2014 Rode from Las Vegas NV to Prudhoe Bay AK to Annapolis MD
- 2018 Failed for the 5th time to reach Ushuaia,Argentina by motorcycle
