Irish adventurer visits Toronto show

From SUPERSHOW Events

TORONTO, ON - It's 2008. The world enters economic meltdown. A global flu pandemic looms. An historical US presidential election is taking place and, somewhere in the Americas, a lone Irishman is coaxing his temperamental Italian motorcycle through another electrical breakdown...

Paddy Tyson is an experienced adventure motorcycle traveller from Fermanagh, Ireland, who will be flying to Canada to be at SUPERSHOW 2011 for a special Canadian book signing appearance. Copies of his new book "The Hunt for Puerto des Faglioli," which he affectionately calls a Motorcycle Adventure in search of the Improbable, will be for sale in Hall 3 at the Show.

Published as a collection for the first time, this witty and informative account is essential reading for travellers and would-be adventurers.

Interspersed with anecdote, social observation and liberal doses of humour, this book follows writer and seasoned overland traveller Tyson through his battle with bureaucracy, bike breaking road surfaces, illness, accident, gun toting police and a pasty Celtic complexion remarkably unsuited to the Central American sun.

“I wouldn’t say that I’m all that new to this 'Riding around the World' thing," Tyson said. "I’ve been doing it in sections since 1994, but it is true that I only gave myself four weeks to prepare for my assault on the Americas, and that included buying the bike, 'Peggy.' She is a 650cc Rotax single, which is remarkably similar to the BMW 650, but which was never imported into Canada. So that seems like a good start."

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