If you've read Robert Pirsig's book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," you’ve spent time with his cycle, "the most famous forgotten motorcycle in American history," says Smithsonian ...

“The Buddha, the Godhead,” he writes, “resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be the new home of American author Robert M. Pirsig’s 1966 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle featured in his book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle ...

The 1966 Honda CB77, or Super Hawk, that Robert Pirsig rode on his 1968 trip from Minnesota to California that inspired the book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. NMAH One of the most famous ...

Author Robert Pirsig left greasy fingerprints on pages of his shop manual while working on his mystical motorcycle, the one in the enduring 1974 classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." ...

Supporters of the late Minneapolis author Robert Pirsig will kick off a motorcycle ride from Minneapolis to San Francisco on Monday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pirsig’s best-selling book ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Fifty years ago, the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" became an instant hit. The late Robert Pirsig — a Minnesota native — was behind ...

Fifty years ago, America took a motorcycle ride that doubled as an exploration into the human mind. Amid a long struggle with mental illness, the author and philosopher Robert M. Pirsig invited the ...

Robert M. Pirsig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” died at his home in South Berwick, Maine on April 24. The 88-year-old writer had been in poor health, according to his ...

Author Robert Pirsig and his son Chris in 1968. Pirsig, who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, died Monday at age 88. Robert M. Pirsig, who inspired generations to road trip across ...