Posted on 03/02/2006 12:28:37 PM PST by martin_fierro
ZEN MOTORCYCLE PHOTOGRAPHY REVEALED
02 March 2006
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance photographs have surfaced on the Internet.
Some of you may have heard of it, and some may have even read it. Written in the late Sixties the book 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' was a huge hit in the Seventies and even people who didn't ride motorcycle read it. It was in everyone's bookshelf.
The book was based upon a cross-USA motorcycle trip taken by the author Robert Pirsig and mixed the riding experience with Pirsig's mental ramblings on the theme of life, the Universe and everything. However, none of the photographs taken by Pirsig were included.
Now, the photographs have surfaced and can be viewed by going to:
Thanks for the post. I read the book, and was heavily influenced by it as a youngster. Upon rereading it later in life, I was far less impressed. The cracks in his philosophy, and sanity, were far more obvious to my older and more experienced self than to my younger self.
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