I just read this at Amazon: Product Description
"Here are the pleasures and perils of compulsive long-distance motorcycling—and one man's mission to outride everyone else.
For the 50,000 members of the Iron Butt Association—also known as the "World's Toughest Motorcyclists"—long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. These men and women push the limits of human endurance, often in rides of more than one thousand miles a day. 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. But why?"
I really hope that this is just the way that Amazon chose to hype the book and that the actual book doesn't make it appear that those of us who do these types of rides are somehow compelled to live our lives "on the edge" and intentionally place ourselves at risk to do so.
