Why we ride: If you have to ask

Riding a motorcycle can make you feel joyous, powerful, peaceful, frightened, vulnerable, and back out to happy again, perhaps in the same ten miles. It is life compressed, its own answer to the question "Why?"  
Melissa Holbrook Pierson

The Perfect Vehicle is one of my favorite books about what its like to ride a motorcycle. I've given it out to a few of my friends over the years. Every winter, I pick up the book and read a few pages just to remind myself that spring will come and I will be on two wheels again.