The Bikeriders

The BikeridersThis is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for. If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling engines of big bikes and rides them on racetracks or through traffic or, on occasion, into oblivion. Danny Lyon Danny Lyon joined the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle

A car had crashed into a telephone pole

Memory remains an ineffable mystery

Wagner manages to make the process reassuring as she brings us inside

This is hardly putting the case too strongly

Days later he rode the same train home

creating a sadomasochistic story

These little fables of my imaginary theatrics repeat the mantras of Cavafy's desires and regrets: so old today

Daniel D'Ottavio followed the team's home games at Travers Island

ten sheets to a roll

though stops well short of being glamorous

emulating old-time explorers of the Western frontier

and Nicholas Wilder