I was impressed by the author they managed to find for this piece, Rachel Kushner. She's an accomplished novelist who writes with deep knowledge about motorcycles, as in her novel The Flamethrowers (how I was introduced to her writing). She's at the level that you might expect to find a long interview with her in the New Yorker. To learn more about her, see this article.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/04/13/on-memory-and...