Hog Fever: The Hard Ride to Harley Heaven

La Plante, Richard

ISBN 10: 0312858841 / ISBN 13: 9780312858841

Published by Forge, 1995

About this Item

A small tear to dustjacket, else Near Fine. A biker's memoirs include his experiences with the Hell's Angels and the Forbes 500 on his journey between King's Road, London, and New Mexico, and describes how he endured all kinds of weather and personally customized his motorcycle.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hog Fever: The Hard Ride to Harley Heaven
• Publisher: Forge
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312858841
• ISBN 13: 9780312858841
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Motorcycles

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Synopsis

A biker's memoirs include his experiences with the Hell's Angels and the Forbes 500 on his journey between King's Road, London, and New Mexico, and describes how he endured all kinds of weather and personally customized his motorcycle.

Reviews

HOG is the acronym for Harley Owners Group, and novelist LaPlante (Leopard) was a founder of the first chapter in Britain. His fever for Harley-Davidson motorcycles, which lay dormant until he was 38, goes hand-in-hand with an obsession for everything from the 1960s, including the films Easy Rider and The Wild One. Readers learn that the Harley frenzy extends not just to owning a bike but also to customizing it, a process evidently requiring little originality since owners copy their ideas from biker magazines. We follow LaPlante's travels from London to Spain and New York to Wichita, Kans., where he suffers a broken foot but no diminution of his dedication. Along with recreating his rides with a Hell's Angels group and telling us about getting tattooed, LaPlante carries his stereotypical biker role onto the printed page, but he often sounds like a poseur.
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