Chrome and Black and Dusty: Robert Pirsig’s Motorcycle HeritagePaul F. Johnston (opens in new tab)

Many people know Robert Maynard Pirsig (1928-2017) as author of the iconic 1974 volume Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (William Morrow, NY). Dedicated reader-riders may even remember that he rode a motorcycle across the Midwest to California and back with his son back in the 1960s. But virtually no one outside of his immediate family members and editor know the depth and breadth of his relationship with motorcycles, or that it endured from the ages of four to...