You can read some of the Tales as originally posted to rec.motorcycles.
The Tales in the book have been polished and many photos added.
- Rebus Knebus and His Leap...
- Pony Maples - A Colorful Character.
- Isle of Memories - Heaven on Earth in the Irish Sea.
- Team Casual - (Very) Amateur Roadracing.
- Thumper - My BMW Single.
- (A Real Long) Zielfahrt - The BMW 60 Year Rally.
- People In Gray - Behind the Iron Curtain.
Gathering Speed - Tales of Motorcycles and Life is NOW AVAILABLE, directly from the publisher.
- ISBN 0-9656176-0-2
- Library of Congress # 96-95183
It contains Tales of adventure acquired from touring the U.S.A. and the world, commuting, restoring, rallying, racing, wrecking, wrenching, and just generally absorbing life's lessons as delivered via motorcycles made by BMW, Ducati, Harley Davidson, MV Agusta, Vincent, and Yamaha, with an International Harvester pickup truck, an Amphicar and a machine gun or two thrown in for good measure. Boink for a look at the table of contents of the hundred ninety-eight page, soft-bound book, lavishly illustrated with eighty-some photographs.
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- Boink to read reviews by Ged Martin, Shank, John Sloan, Roar Larsen, Josh Fielek.
Oh yeah, and here's some links...
David Braun - Flash@Deathstar.org - DoD # 412