"In 1965, Danny Lyon, a twenty-three-year-old veteran of the Southern civil rights movement, joined the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club. Riding a 650-cc Triumph and shooting with a Nikon Reflex and a Rolleiflex, he produced one of the seminal books of the 1960s: The Bikeriders. This work of realism read like fiction and presented a world as dangerous and romantic as the one depicted in films such as Easy Rider - released a year after the publication of The Bikeriders." "Recognized as a powerful work of photodocumentary, The Bikeriders helped sear the counterculture into the American mind. Yet as influential as the original book was, this edition contains photographs never seen: fifteen black-and-white pictures not included in the original, and fourteen color photographs long thought lost, all reproduced here for the first time.". "Including extensive interviews with racers and outlaws - the original edition being among the first books to use text from taped interviews - The Bikeriders is a vivid immersion in a culture that is now recognized as "the golden age" of motorcyclists, a world that few outsiders knew intimately in its heyday. Documenting the romance, risk, and abandon of di
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