Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0452296153 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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MATTHEW BIBERMAN teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Louisville. . He also works on Vincent motorcycles in his garage with his father, “Big Sid” Biberman
The sublime weight of our obsessions Belle Yang Especially moving is the weight of heritage and history in the memoir of English professor and grease monkey/craftsman, Matthew Biberman. The father ate bitter fruit in his youth and the son is made to wince from the unsettling memory.Matthew Biberman's passion and obsession to lift his father, Big Sid from rapid decline, prompts him to promise the latter they would build the motorcycle of his father's dreams. The promise segues into passion to obsession at the sacrifice of Biberman's marriage.Big Sid Biberman built fast machines, on which he took the young Mathew Biberman for Sunday . B. Webb said good book for fathers and sons. Really enjoyed the story of how years of dysfunction are overcome through the communication required around the construction of the motorcycle. While I don't know anything about motorcycles, I could still enjoy the book while learning a little bit about them. Well done.. "Big Sid's Vincati" according to Bad Bill. This is an excellent read. I have read several very good motorcycle books including Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Perfect Vehicle and this one is in the same class. It is difficult to put down.
But if anyone could do it, Matthew knew his father could. The two men hadn't spoken in years-but called a truce to attempt a shared dream. But now, Sid was old, busted up and broke. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Shop Class as Soulcraft, in this heartfelt memoir that shows how two very different men built a legendary motorcycle, and along the way, discovered what it means to be father and son.. Big Sid was the mechanic to see about repairing Vincents for nearly sixty years. Read Matthew Biberman's posts on the Penguin Blog."If you believe it is possible to fall in love with a motorcycle, you will love this book." -Jay Leno When Big Sid had a heart attack and gave up the will to live, his son Matthew Biberman panicked. Impulsively, Matthew promised his father that they would build a Vincati together. This fusion of two legendary motorcycles, the Vincent Black Shadow and the Ducati GT, a Vincati was considered near-impossible to build. Matthew, despite sharing his dad's passion, had become a Shakespearean scholar
This is a great tale that will resonate especially with people like me, whose love of motorcycles was sparked by family." -Hugo Wilson, Editor, Classic Bike "A splendid motorcycle tale about unlikely things coming together: an imperfect past with an uncertain future, a professor of Shakespeare with a mythic speed-tuner, and a stylish Euro-bike with the most iconic motorcycle in the world." -Fred Haefele, author of Rebuilding the Indian "There are few times when a man has a passion for a machine like Sid Biberman has for Vincents. It is an open- handed cl