zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance bikes
Honda CB77 Robert M. Pirsig rode a CB77 Super Hawk on the trip he made with his son and their friends in 1968 on a two-month round trip from their home in St. Paul, Minnesota to Petaluma, California, which became the basis for the novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.[3][6][7] The novel never mentions the make or model of Pirsig's motorcycle,[8] but does discuss their companions', John and Sylvia Sutherland's, new BMW, an R60/2.[9] The R60/2, prized for its place in motorcycle literature, has changed hands and is still regularly ridden, while Pirsig was, as of 2007[update], still the owner of his CB77 Super Hawk.[10]