Remember the book by Gary Paulsen that I mentioned in the last newsletter? I started searching the internet to see if he had published anything else on travels or motorcycles, and here was this book by him entitled "Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime" (there's another title by Gary Paulsen called "Zero to Sixty: A Motorcycle Journey Through Midlife", but this may be an error). But rather than buying it sight unseen over the 'net, I went downtown and found a bookstore that had a copy. Strangely, it seemed almost identical to Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride. So I got out the library copy (I hadn't returned it yet) from my knapsack, and the clerk and I compared the two. Word for word identical! I don't know what's going on, but it's the same book. So order one title or the other, but not both, or you'll be disappointed. Unless you know a biker friend who has a birthday coming up.
Also on the book front, I found, at the same store, a copy of "Hog Fever," by Richard La Plante. I just started it but I like it already. Similar writing styles. (Separated at birth?) It's in paperback for $15. The caption above the title reads, "This book is the bible for the first-time Harley rider and anybody else who's ever dreamed of a life in the wind." He starts with a Sportster and works his way through the Harley line, along the way traveling through Europe and America. 224 pages, plus b&w photos. (Funny thing: when you type in Hog Fever into Amazon.com's search box, it also brings up a book entitled "Classical Swine Fever and Related Viral Infections (Developments in Veterinary Virology).")
There's also a book called The Adventure Motorbiking Handbook, by Chris Scott, which I ordered (although it's a bit pricey at $25). 
Other books on motorcycle travel are "Alaska by Motorcycle," by Gregory W. Frazier (which I haven't read yet), "Desert Travels, Motorcycle Journeys in the Sahara and West Africa," also by Chris Scott (which I also haven't read), and the classic "Jupiter's Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph," by Ted Simon (which I read many, many years ago). And there's also "Against the Wind," by Ron Ayres, about the legendary Iron Butt Rally, and "10 Years on 2 Wheels," by Helge Pedersen, about his quarter-million mile journey around the world on an on/off-road BMW motorcycle. Two more titles by Gregory W. Frazier: "New Zealand by Motorcycle" and "Motorcycle Sex: Or Freud Would Never Understand the Relationship between Me and My Motorcycle."
Feb. 1970 issue of 16 Magazine has the following "centerfold" of Michael Parks (looks more like David Hasselhoff to me!):
TV GUIDE review by Cleveland Amory of Then Came Bronson (Oct. 11, 1969 issue):
The first Harley run I went on was on one of the bikes that was used in the
show. The owner was a real estate agent named R__ from Temecula. The ride was from Temecula, CA, to Yosemite about 11 or 12 years ago. I never forgot it and just bought my fist bike this winter. A Sportster, of course. Here is its picture the day I got it. It was fun happening upon your site. Brought back some great memories.
