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Quotes, Advice, and Ancient Chinese Secrets...

1. Ride it like you stole it!

2. Got a $5 head? Get a $5 helmet.

3. Life may begin at 30, but it doesn’t get real interesting until about 150.

4. If you’re going to lead, then lead. If you’re going to follow, get the hell out of my way!

5. “Warning: objects seen in mirror are disappearing rapidly”

6 “200mph, no hands. Damn that’d be cool… right before the part where you die.”
– A. Duthie

7. That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.  ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

8. Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.  ~Author Unknown

9. Four wheels move the body.  Two wheels move the soul.  ~Author Unknown

10. Midnight bugs taste best.  ~Author Unknown

11. You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike.  ~Paul Teutul, Sr., American Chopper, "Billy Joel"

12. Beware the rider who says the bike never breaks down.


13. 2 bikes are useful because one can be raided for parts at any given time.

14. Never be afraid to slow down.

15. Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.  ~Author Unknown

16. Four wheels move the body.  Two wheels move the soul.  ~Author Unknown

17. Beware the rider who says the bike never breaks down.

18. It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed.  ~Author Unknown

19. Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.  ~Author Unknown

20. Keep your bike in good repair:  motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking.  ~Author Unknown

21. The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome.  ~Author Unknown

22. “You start the game with a full pot o’ luck and an empty pot o’ experience... The object is to fill the pot of experience before you empty the pot of luck.”

23. Faster, Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.  ~Hunter Thompson

24. What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet?  An organ donor.  ~David Perry

25. If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.  ~AuthorUnknown

26. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.  ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

27. Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.  ~Author Unknown

28. Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary.  ~Author Unknown


29. Life is too short for traffic.  ~Dan Bellack

30. Work to ride and ride to work.  ~Author Unknown


31. Burn rubber, not your soul, baby.  ~ Biker Boyz

32. Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.  ~Mac McCleary

33. Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.  ~Jim Samuels


34. Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.  ~Author
Unknown

35. “Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.” – Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden

36. Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.  ~Author Unknown

37. “Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existence”.

38. Everyone knows Honda’s attitude in the GP Paddock! “ Who will be behind us this weekend? “

39. “A zest for living must include a willingness to die.”
R.A. Heinlein

40. People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. 
~Author Unknown

41. Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.  ~Author Unknown

42. Safety doesn't happen by accident.  ~Author Unknown

43. Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes.  ~Author Unknown

44. When you're riding lead, don't spit.  ~Author Unknown


45. Maintenance is as much art as it is science.  ~Author Unknown

46. Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.  ~Author Unknown


47. Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly.  ~Author Unknown

48. I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.  ~Author Unknown


49. Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude.  ~Author Unknown

50. “Racing is living, everything else is just waiting”

51. “If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
Larry McMurty

52. “Why are motorcycle dealers closed on Sundays? Because Sunday is for worship... Catholics go to church, Motorcyclists go to the track.”
Justin Skalka

53. I want to leave this world the same way I came into it: Screaming and covered in blood.

54. Kansas: home of the highway with 318 miles and 11 curves.

55. Accidents hurt - safety doesn't.  ~Author Unknown

56. If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there won't be.  ~Author Unknown

57. Keep the paint up, and the rubber down!  ~Author Unknown


58. Everyone crashes.   Some get back on.  Some don't.  Some can't.  ~Author Unknown

59. Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 150.   ~Author Unknown

60. What does a Harley and hound dog have in common ? They both spend most of their time in the back of a pickup truck. What differentiates the two ? The hound dog can get in and out of the pickup under his own power.

61. “98% of all Harleys ever sold are still on the road. The other 2% made it home.”

62. Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.

63. NEVER argue with a woman holding a torque wrench.

64. Never try to race an old geezer, he may have one more gear than you.

65. Home is where your bike sits still long enough to leave a few drops of oil on the ground.

66. Routine maintenance should never be neglected.

67. The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.

68. Don’t ride so late into the night that you sleep through the sunrise.

69. Pie and coffee are as important as petrol.

70. Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of fuel before you can think straight.

71. If you want to get a job, you may have to compromise your principals (you may even have to shave).

72. Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you’ll ride alone.

73. Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town.

74. Never mistake horsepower for staying power.

75. A good rider has balance, judgment, and good timing. So does a good lover.

76. A cold hamburger can be reheated quite nicely by strapping it to an exhaust pipe and riding forty miles.

77. Never do less than forty miles before breakfast.

78. A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.

79. Respect the person who has seen the dark side of motorcycling and lived.

80. Young riders pick a destination and go... Old riders pick a direction and go.

81. A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.

82. Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.

83. Always back your bike into the curb, and sit where you can see it.

84. When you look down the road, it seems to never end – but you better believe it does.


"And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106, continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth,
Wringing the handlebar for speed,
Wild to be wreckage forever."
~James Dickey, "Cherrylog Road"

 

85. A rider can smell a party 5,000 miles away.

86. Winter is Nature’s way of telling you to polish.

87. A motorcycle can’t sing on the streets of a city.

88. People are like Motorcycles: each is customized a bit differently.

89. If the bike isn’t braking properly, you don’t start by rebuilding the engine.

90. Remember to pay as much attention to your partner as you do your carburetor.

91. Sometimes the best communication happens when you’re on separate bikes.

92. Good coffee should be indistinguishable from 50 weight motor oil.

93. Learn to do counter-intuitive things that may someday save your butt.

94. The twisties – not the superslabs –separate the riders from the squids.

95. If you really want to know what’s going on, watch what’s happening at least five cars ahead.

96. Don’t make a reputation you’ll have to live down or run away from later.

97. If the person in the next lane at the stoplight rolls up the window and locks the door, support their view of life by snarling at them.

98. A friend is someone who’ll get out of bed at 2 am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere to get you when you’re broken down.

99. If she changes her oil more than she changes her mind, keep her.

100. If you want to get somewhere before sundown, you can’t stop at every tavern.

101. There’s something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.

102. Don’t lead the pack if you don’t know where you’re going.

103. Sleep with one arm through the spokes and keep your pants on.

104. Practice wrenching on your own bike.

105. Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit.

106. A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of fuel.

107. If you can’t get it going with bungee cords and electrician’s tape, it’s serious.

108. If you ride like there’s no tomorrow, there won’t be.

109. Bikes parked out front mean good chicken-fried steak inside.

110. Gray-haired riders don’t get that way from pure luck.

111. There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.

112. Thin leather looks good in the bar, but it won’t save your butt from “road rash” if you go down.

113. The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.

114. Always replace the cheapest parts first.

115. “Keep thy eye on the tach, thine ears on the engine, least thy whirlybits seek communion with the sun” – John 4:50

116. “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!”

117. You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.

118. No matter what marquee you ride, it’s all the same wind.

119. Patience is the ability to keep your motor idling.

120. Learning to ride at 41 is better than never learning to ride at all.

121. "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
>>Ursula K. LeGuin

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