Product review: Sons of Thunder book
I love motorcycle anthologies. Geno Zanetti's She's a Bad Motorcycle was my first - and I ended up trying to buy every book he excerpted from. And now, I have just finished reading Neil Bradford's book, Sons Of Thunder, another anthology. I was, to be childishly frank, hopping up and down with joy. Bradford relies on many of the same authors as Zanetti but his selection is deeply evocative. TE Lawrence as Motorcycleman Ross forms an exquisite opening to the book and the same goes for the Pierson as well.
If you like motorcycles, to be honest, buying Pierson's The Perfect Motorcycle is something you absolutely have to do. Her eloquence and passion is something that all motorcyclists have inside of them, but few have the articulation and pause required to express it in a form others can identify with. But where Zanetti's view was very America-centric, Bradford successfully travels a far, far, wider world, which stretches all the way across the planet, and from the early 20th century to now. In each passage or poem, Bradford chooses to focus as much as possible on why we get so emotional about motorcycles and it makes the book positively glow for those of us already in love with our two-wheeled gods. And it makes motorcycles glow as objects of inspiration and lust for those who haven't evolved to that state yet.
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