'A motorcycle the size of Roz's Betty Boop would have been beyond the dreams of the craziest pack leader at the Ace Cafe on London's North Circular Road in the monochrome days of rockers, Nortons, Bonnevilles and Marianne Faithfull, when 'good' was middle class, 'bad' misunderstood and the motorcycle offered stark hope to a generation of inarticulate searchers . . .' Tom Cunliffe and his wife Roz take life in the saddle and on to the American highways and byways astride the quintessential 'dream machine' - the Harley-Davidson. With flashbacks to the Sixties, the eclectic assortment of moonshiners, bikers hard and not-so-hard, cowhands, Sioux Indians, strippers, biblebashers, war veterans, southern gents and the occasional alligator delivers a unique insight into the diversity of the USA. AUTHOR: Tom has been a writer since 1986, and has written two 'Best Book of the Sea' award winners for Topsail and Battleaxe and Hand, Reef and Steer. Tom's bikes have included a 250cc BSA C15 that taught him about mechanical breakdowns, a 650cc Matchless that almost killed him at the age of 19, various reliable Hondas and Yamahas in the 70s and 80s, a Kawasaki GPZ1100 whose performance you simply couldn't ignore, a 1979 Triumph Bonneville T140 and the star of Good Vibrations a Harley Davidson Soft-tail called Black Madonna. SELLING POINTS: An easy-riding peepshow into today's America through British eyes and between the handlebars of the great Harley-Davidson. Previous editions have sold in excess of 18,000 copies. An extensive road-trip: from Maryland on the east coast to San Francisco on the west (and then back again!). REVIEWS: 'deserves to battle for bookshelf space with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' - Sunday Express 'A pithy throbber of a book' - Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons

Author Biography

Tom Cunliffe is the author of a number of books on boating, including Celestial Navigation; Coastal Navigation; The Complete Yachtmaster; and Hand, Reef and Steer.