Thoughts on Big Sid's Vincati

Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime is a memoir that swerves through the compelling emotional landscape of a particular father and son whose relationship is altered through a motorcycle. That machine is a Vincati, half British Vincent and half Italian Ducati.

The narrative tells how the father, Big Sid, one of the best motorcycle tuners in the world, and his son Matthew, a university literature professor, close the distance between them over a proj...