Introduction / by Neil Bradford The perfect vehicle / Melissa Holbrook Pierson The road / T. E. Lawrence Letter to Charlotte Shaw / T. E. Lawrence --- Letter to George Brough / T. E. Lawrence My year / Raold Dahl A motorbike / Ted Hughes Long lane with turnings / L. J. K. Setright One man caravan / Robert Edison Fulton Jr. The rugged road / Theresa Wallach Travelling with Che Guevara: the making of a revolutionary / Alberto Granado Chasing Che / Patrick Symmes Che and the art of Motorcycle maintenance / Andy Martin Solo by motor-bicycle from Rawalpindi to Lancashire / Don Whillans Jupiter's travels / Ted Simon Bullet up the grand trunk road / Jonathan Gregson Running with the moon / Jonny Bealby Lois on the loose / Lois Pryce Uneasy rider / Mike Carter Song of the sausage creature / Hunter S. Thompson The unsettled motorcyclist's vision of his death / Thom Gunn Me and my bike and why / Thomas McGuane Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance / Robert M. Pirsig Travels with a Harley / Jim Perrin The case for working with your hands or why office work is bad for you / Matthew Crawford These are the days that must happen to you / Dan Walsh Stealing speed / Mat Oxley What if I hadn't tried it / Valentino Rossi Myth of the motorcycle hog / Robert Hughes