The pillion as your seat of awakening

As a bike for novices, the Honda CMX500 Rebel looks good and is hard to beat.

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You see things differently from a motorbike. As Robert Pirsig argues in his classic Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, from a car the scenery is just more boring TV. "On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore and the sense of presence is overwhelming." The book is "an ode to motorcycling", says Motorcycle News, in its obituary of Pirsig, who died last week at the age of 88.

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