Great video - very amusing, and a worthy homage to ZAMM. I read the book back in the 70's and again a year or so ago wondering if I'd see different things in it with the passage of time. It is a difficult book though and, if anyone hasn't read it, it's much more a philosophical treatise than a travel narrative.
There are various photographs from the trip Robert Pirsig did with his son (and friends) back in '68 scattered around the web and looking at them I can only think it's a mastery of Zen that kept all that luggage intact on his CB77. About three years after their trip, in 1971, I did a month long trip two up from the UK to Greece on the same bike with much less luggage and it really was only the power of prayer that kept the rear end of the bike intact. About a week after I returned the whole of the rear end fell off in the middle of London when vibration finally snapped the last overstressed spot weld. Good as the Honda was luggage carrying was not its strong point. Mind you, Jacqui, my pillion, probably weighed a bit more than Chris
I'm sure you know what happened to Pirsig's son ten years later so I hope the parallels with your trip are not too close.
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