Table of Contents

Preface

PART ONE: WHY WE RIDE

Introduction

The Survey

Category One: Engagement

Category Two: Autonomy

Category Three: Mastery

Category Four: Exhilaration

Category Five: Transcendence

Category Six: Relaxation

Category Seven: Practicality

Concluding Comments

PART TWO: SELECTED COLUMNS

From the GARAGE

The Joy of Maintenance

Perfect Imperfection

Just Say No

Necessary Evils

Your Rite to Ride

Making it Personal

Necessity is a Mother

Garage Fever

From the ROAD

Human Relations 102

The Verdict

Can't Live with 'em, Can't Live without 'em

Feels Like the First Time...Again

The Call of the Open Road

Get Lost!

What Should Be vs. What Is

Doh! Brain Fade and the Perils of Fatigue

From the TRAIL

Dirty Thoughts

Half the Fun

Back to School

Near-Life Experiences

Experts

From the TRACK

Concentrating on Concentration

Learning Curves

The "Trust Me" Line

You Just Can't Get There from Here

From the COUCH (Freud goes for a ride)

Twin Brain - Part One

Twin Brain - Part Two

Moto-Voyeurism

Linkages

Spiritual Motorcycling

Self-Diagnostics

Shifting

Riding in the Zone

Motorcycle Camping

Moto-Connoisseurism

Safe Distance

Displacement

Black Boxes

The Voice of (In)Experience

Loud Pipes Do What?

Top Ten Reasons...

Moto-Placebos

Oh, What a Feeling!

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Cartographer (or not)

From the HEART (personal favorites)

Wrecks

Sensory-Motor Satori

A Cure for What Ails Us

Riding Through the Valley of the Shadow

Giving Ourselves a Hand

Milestones

PART THREE: FLOW FOR RIDERS

Introduction

Aspect One: Challenge-Skill Balance

Aspect Two: Action-Awareness Merger

Aspect Three: Clarity of Purpose

Aspect Four: Clarity of Feedback

Aspect Five: Present Task Focus

Aspect Six: Paradox of Control

Aspect Seven: Absence of Self-Consciousness

Aspect Eight: Transformation of Time

Aspect Nine: Autotelic Experience

Concluding Comments