



Items in stock at foreign manufacturers will typically ship to you within 2 to 4 weeks. Items in stock at domestic manufacturers will usually ship to you within 1-2 weeks. Upon receiving your order, we’ll order the items to be shipped to us. Special Order – We do not stock these items, but we can order them.Place your order now to get the next available unit when it arrives. Available to Backorder – These items are not currently in stock, but we normally keep this item in stock.In Stock – These items are in our warehouse and available for immediate shipment.We use several stock statuses in our website. What do the stock statuses in this website mean? Here are the pleasures and perils of compulsive long-distance motorcyclingA?and one man’s mission to outride everyone else. rnt Author: Melissa Holbrook Piersonrnrnt.In seeking to understand why people strive so mightily to reach a goal with no reward other than having gotten there Pierson gives us an intimate glimpse of a singularly independent yet supportive community and a revealing portrait of its most daring member.rn But why? Melissa Holbrook Pierson herself a longtime motorcyclist chronicles the gratifications of long-distance riding as well as the challenges and solitude that accompany it. Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan a diabetic and a man who even in late middle age loves nothing better than riding impossible distances at no small risk to himself. These men and women push the limits of human endurance often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. For the 50 000 members of the Iron Butt AssociationA?also known as the “World’s Toughest Motorcyclists”A?long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession.
