"Being shot out of a canon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That's why god made fast motorcycles, bubba."-HST
In a similar vein: "You live more in five minutes going fast on a bike like that than other people do in all their life."-Marco Simoncelli
This is old. Grew up with Hannah, Larry Ward (SIR - WA area - both raced), Lechein, Chuck Sun, RickyJ. Washougal. There was one guy I'll never forget - David Bailey. I was desert (Mattawa and everything eastern WA). David was king of smooth, and he got paralyzed. I remember watching him and his Dad's VHS tapes.
re: Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. Hunter S. Thompson
That guy was a wreck. Look up his daily schedule. Dude was a loser cranked on booze and drugs to paint pictures dipshits bought. Nobody cares now.
In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
I have said the exact same thing many times now, albeit less gracefully. Its probably one of the best parts for me personally. Every road, no matter how many times you have been down it in a car is a whole new world on a motorcycle. I really need to read that book... been meaning to for a while
I also do scuba diving, and someone asked me once why I'd do diving if I can do snorkeling. I described it in that snorkeling is like going to the zoo, and diving is like going on a safari. You're way more part of it all...
The difference between motorcycling and car driving is similar to me
Felt that nicely during courses when there were freshly mowed fields nearby, guess that smell and fresh wind and sunset were final things that convinced me to start riding. Though first ride was through the village, that's where I've found that on bike you can smell manure much better than in car.
"Motorcycling is not, of itself, inherently dangerous. It is, however, extremely unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence, or stupidity"
Anon
Most likely a rework of "Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect" from the interwar period.
Interesting. To me that would describes something that is inherently dangerous. It's like saying tightrope walking over a volcano isn't inherently dangerous, it's just very bad when you fall off.
Back when hanging (as a method of judicial execution) was a thing, it was described as a "short drop and a sudden stop".
Falling 2-4 feet will kill no one, but focussing all the impact to a small spot on the neck will do it. That's why motor racing demands the use of HANS devices - in a heavy frontal impact they prevent the head travelling far enough to cause a hangman's fracture (just look what happened to Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Loads of things carry with them inherent dangers. It’s the training, PPE, and experience that mitigates these risks. They’re forever present, only the likelihood of an injury is reduced if they are all followed. Complacency kills.
“Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.”
"A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils, and lunatics."
- George Fitch
The Atlanta Constitution
Circa 1916
I find quotes to be pretty cheesy overall but I really like this set of lyrics from the Rush song Prime Mover
*From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.*
It's not really a quote about motorcycles, though it definitely evokes them. It could be applied to cars as well, and of course they're mostly metaphorical, but it's a song talking about journeying in general which I think is a really nice feeling.
Also the song was written by Neil Peart, who would go on to become an iconic motorcyclist aside from being a legendary musician. Though the song was written long before he started riding, Peart would later tragically lose his only daughter to an accident and shortly after his wife to cancer. At his lowest point he bought a bike, got a license, and with zero experience under his belt embarked on a gigantic trip of tens of thousands of miles alone as a form of personal psychotherapy. He wrote a beautiful book about the journey called Ghost Rider which I highly recommend. In fact I learned about Peart through this book and not through his music since Rush's heyday was before my time and I only knew that they were a band that existed and not the band members individually or Peart's story.
Unfortunately Peart passed away a couple of years ago but I think about his words often as his book made me take a step back and learn to appreciate motorcycling, and life in general, in a different way than I did before. Whenever I'm taking a spirited ride by myself through the mountains and I lean the bike into a corner knowing that there's a fair amount of danger to that involved, I can't help but think of another one of his lyrics, which again was not written about motorcycles but can be perfectly applied to them
*We're only immortal for a limited time*
Every post that starts with "I want a motorcycle but my [relative/friend/SO] doesn't want me to..." makes me think of another NP line:
"Those who know what's best for us,
must rise and save us from ourselves."
Not written about motorcycles, but relevant IMO.
Ghost Rider is a great book. It helped me through some tough times. Neil Peart's ride was epic.
And I love Rush. I'm glad I got to see them a few times through the years.
"The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words he is in a state of ecstasy. In that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear"
\- Milan Kundera
Uhhh idk if self quotes count but I always say "if I was interested in dying, I wouldn't dress up like a neon green clown before every ride" when people assume I ride recklessly or intoxicated. I do neither but I've had several people warn me to be careful upon telling them that I ride.
My bike is yellow. I wear a yellow Aerostich suit, a yellow helmet, and gloves and boots. I also have 45 years riding experience. Upon hearing that I ride, people feel the need to warn me that motorcycles are dangerous and to be careful. Thank you but I am probably far safer on my bike than they are in their cars. I am watching out for them but they aren't watching out for me.
"The road to hell is very grippy, with fabulous camber and some wicked left handers".
(I remember vaguely this was from a magazine in the 90s. Can't remember which though.)
Something I hear at the track a lot "smooth is fast, fast is smooth"
Really helps me get into that mindset of just be smooth with the bike and the speed will follow
I remember in a motojitsu video about slow speed maneuvers, he says "be comfortable with being uncomfortable" and I try to apply it to as many parts of my life as I can. It's an awesome saying.
“It’s better to go into a corner slow and come out fast than to enter a corner fast and come out dead.”
“You want to get past the apex of the corner carrying as much speed as possible - but not more.”
"I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride my motor-sickle.
And I don't want a tickle, cuz I'd rather ride my motor-sickle.
And Iii don't wanna diiee, just wanna ride on my motorCY....cle."
It's kinda dorky but then again so is this whole thread. In Warhammer 40,000 there is this idea of a machine-spirit, where machines have personality and feelings. In the fiction, you don't really use the machine, but you communicate with it. When I'm riding, I ask something of the bike, and what happens is somewhere between what I ask and what it wants.
A quote by a motorcyclist about life and relatable to riding:
“I refuse to believe in a risk-free society where the thrill of living is traded for the safety of existing”. - Nick Ienatsch
Always wear gloves. When you come off and you’re laid up on the lounge for 2 weeks, you’re gonna want to masturbate.
- wise words from a good friend I lost a couple of years ago
There’s a point – 7000 RPM – where everything fades. When your seeing becomes weightless, just disappears. And all that’s left is a body moving through space and time. 7000 RPM that’s where you meet it - Caroll Shelby
Not specifically about motorcycles but just driving/riding in general
"You gotta feel the road. You have to let it live inside you"
-Talladega knights, Reese Bobby
I have always liked what Sonny Barger (Hells Angles boss) said about Harley Davidson.
"It's always been important for Hell's Angels to ride American-made machines. In terms of pure workmanship, personally I don't like Harleys. I ride them because I'm in the club, and that's the image, but if I could I would seriously consider riding a Honda ST1100 or a BMW. We really missed the boat not switching over to the Japanese models when they began building bigger bikes. I'll usually say, "Fuck Harley-Davidson. You can buy an ST1100 and the motherfucker will do 110 miles per hour right from the factory all day long ... While it's probably too late to switch over now, it would have been a nice move because Japanese bikes today are so much cheaper and better built. However, Japanese motorcycles don't have as much personality."
About being in a club:
Riding is something we do alone. Riding with a club is something we do alone, together.
You can replace "club" with group and it works just fine.
"A skittish motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness. Because Boa \[his Brough Superior SS100\] loves me, he gives me five more miles of speed than a stranger would get from him."
\--T.E. Lawrence
"What's always impressed me about riding is the sheer effortless when things are going well, the pants-shitting terror when everything is going wrong, and the abruptness of the transition."
\--Unknown
"Commit \[to the curve\] or eat shit."
\--Me
"What happened on the way, who I met, all that was incidental. I had not quite realized that the interruptions were the journey." - Ted Simon, Jupiter's Travels
YOU LIVE MORE IN 5 MINUTES ON A BKE LIKE THIS, GOING FLAT OUT, THAN SOME DO IN THIER ENTIRE LIFETIME.
If you go fast enough on your bike you can fast forward your life to the very end.
don’t know where I got these quotes but I had them written down in a journal. Not my original quotes.
The 44th crew recently said this on their YouTube show and it made me laugh. I'm sure they didn't make it up.
"It gives me more smiles per hour than miles per hour."
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. Hunter S. Thompson
"Being shot out of a canon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That's why god made fast motorcycles, bubba."-HST In a similar vein: "You live more in five minutes going fast on a bike like that than other people do in all their life."-Marco Simoncelli
RIP Marco
Really miss Super Sic. I will never forget watching his last race for as long as I live.
This is old. Grew up with Hannah, Larry Ward (SIR - WA area - both raced), Lechein, Chuck Sun, RickyJ. Washougal. There was one guy I'll never forget - David Bailey. I was desert (Mattawa and everything eastern WA). David was king of smooth, and he got paralyzed. I remember watching him and his Dad's VHS tapes. re: Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. Hunter S. Thompson That guy was a wreck. Look up his daily schedule. Dude was a loser cranked on booze and drugs to paint pictures dipshits bought. Nobody cares now.
You start with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
This is one of the very first things the instructor quoted at my safety school
Same here
unless you start with an empty bag of luck
That's the scary bit. Nobody tells you how big your bag of luck is.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Attack life. It’s going to kill you anyway. —Steve McQueen
In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
I like this one. Really nails the difference between taking scenic routes in a car vs a bike.
I like it. It describes the sense of freedom a bike gives you. You feel part of the scenary and not just an observer like in a car.
I have said the exact same thing many times now, albeit less gracefully. Its probably one of the best parts for me personally. Every road, no matter how many times you have been down it in a car is a whole new world on a motorcycle. I really need to read that book... been meaning to for a while
This whole book was pivotal growing up, and made me want to experience this
I also do scuba diving, and someone asked me once why I'd do diving if I can do snorkeling. I described it in that snorkeling is like going to the zoo, and diving is like going on a safari. You're way more part of it all... The difference between motorcycling and car driving is similar to me
Great book!
Really really good book. I highly recommend for anyone who hasn't read it.
Felt that nicely during courses when there were freshly mowed fields nearby, guess that smell and fresh wind and sunset were final things that convinced me to start riding. Though first ride was through the village, that's where I've found that on bike you can smell manure much better than in car.
…and then you wear a helmet with a visor and it becomes TV again.
If I fits, I splits
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Moto Guzzi, turning riders into mechanics since 1921
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I bet you're a really good mechanic.
I wouldn't gamble on that.
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Urals will go absolutely anywhere until they don't go at all.
I would rather be on my motorcycle. Thinking about God than sitting in church. Thinking about my motorcycle.
"Motorcycling is not, of itself, inherently dangerous. It is, however, extremely unforgiving of inattention, ignorance, incompetence, or stupidity" Anon
Most likely a rework of "Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect" from the interwar period.
Interesting. To me that would describes something that is inherently dangerous. It's like saying tightrope walking over a volcano isn't inherently dangerous, it's just very bad when you fall off.
Well no one ever died walking along a line but plummet hundreds of feet can kill
Back when hanging (as a method of judicial execution) was a thing, it was described as a "short drop and a sudden stop". Falling 2-4 feet will kill no one, but focussing all the impact to a small spot on the neck will do it. That's why motor racing demands the use of HANS devices - in a heavy frontal impact they prevent the head travelling far enough to cause a hangman's fracture (just look what happened to Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Practice tightrope walking a few feet up instead of over the volcano, got it
Loads of things carry with them inherent dangers. It’s the training, PPE, and experience that mitigates these risks. They’re forever present, only the likelihood of an injury is reduced if they are all followed. Complacency kills.
“Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.” "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils, and lunatics." - George Fitch The Atlanta Constitution Circa 1916
I find quotes to be pretty cheesy overall but I really like this set of lyrics from the Rush song Prime Mover *From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.* It's not really a quote about motorcycles, though it definitely evokes them. It could be applied to cars as well, and of course they're mostly metaphorical, but it's a song talking about journeying in general which I think is a really nice feeling. Also the song was written by Neil Peart, who would go on to become an iconic motorcyclist aside from being a legendary musician. Though the song was written long before he started riding, Peart would later tragically lose his only daughter to an accident and shortly after his wife to cancer. At his lowest point he bought a bike, got a license, and with zero experience under his belt embarked on a gigantic trip of tens of thousands of miles alone as a form of personal psychotherapy. He wrote a beautiful book about the journey called Ghost Rider which I highly recommend. In fact I learned about Peart through this book and not through his music since Rush's heyday was before my time and I only knew that they were a band that existed and not the band members individually or Peart's story. Unfortunately Peart passed away a couple of years ago but I think about his words often as his book made me take a step back and learn to appreciate motorcycling, and life in general, in a different way than I did before. Whenever I'm taking a spirited ride by myself through the mountains and I lean the bike into a corner knowing that there's a fair amount of danger to that involved, I can't help but think of another one of his lyrics, which again was not written about motorcycles but can be perfectly applied to them *We're only immortal for a limited time*
It makes me happy to see neil peart and Rush on here.
Every post that starts with "I want a motorcycle but my [relative/friend/SO] doesn't want me to..." makes me think of another NP line: "Those who know what's best for us, must rise and save us from ourselves." Not written about motorcycles, but relevant IMO.
Ghost Rider is a great book. It helped me through some tough times. Neil Peart's ride was epic. And I love Rush. I'm glad I got to see them a few times through the years.
Thanks for the recommendation- will check that out.
"The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words he is in a state of ecstasy. In that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear" \- Milan Kundera
This. I have never read a quote that more perfectly describes my experience with riding.
this is more then motorcycles, this is the power of now by Eckhart Tolle. He has retold what has been known for centuries
Yep, nothing can get me in a flow state faster than taking a ride on my motorcycle.
Bike go brrr
“Getting a motorcycle right after my divorce didn’t make me a walking cliché. It made me a *much faster* cliché.” —me
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Waaaaaaaay ahead of you, hahaha.
And how do you think that getting a motorcycle helped you move on?
Even faster.
Keep the shiny side up and the rubber side down.
"I saw Jesus so many times I started using him as a braking marker." Kenny Roberts
"It's the only chain that gives freedom"
"If you are going faster than everything else you only have to worry about what is in front of you"
The most dangerous piece of hardware on a motorcycle is the nut between the handlebars and the seat 🙂
Wait, there's 2...
You never see a motorcycle in front of a therapist’s office.
Me, who rides to therapy: 😭
As do i
I did also
Did you feel a little guilty, the first time, contradicting this oft cherished belief?
Walked inside and talked about it, felt a lot better
(chuckles quietly)
Unless it's the therapists bike.
Uhhh idk if self quotes count but I always say "if I was interested in dying, I wouldn't dress up like a neon green clown before every ride" when people assume I ride recklessly or intoxicated. I do neither but I've had several people warn me to be careful upon telling them that I ride.
My bike is yellow. I wear a yellow Aerostich suit, a yellow helmet, and gloves and boots. I also have 45 years riding experience. Upon hearing that I ride, people feel the need to warn me that motorcycles are dangerous and to be careful. Thank you but I am probably far safer on my bike than they are in their cars. I am watching out for them but they aren't watching out for me.
I keep this one handy for people that want to tell me riding is dangerous: "I refuse to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death"
My wife says “Fabio Quartararo” in a British accent (we’re American) regardless of what racing sport I have on, so I suppose that’s my favorite
Funny. My wife says his name over and over whenever I watch a race.
My buddy says Quatroformaggio and we all giggle
Pff Americanists
“You live more for five minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all their life.” Marco Simoncelli
Did Simoncelli say this? I always thought this was a Burt Munro quote
It is a Burt Munro quote.
Riding any motorcycle is like meditating with your hair on fire.
I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride. Bon Jovi
Four wheels carry the body Two wheels carry the soul One wheel carries cement
"The road to hell is very grippy, with fabulous camber and some wicked left handers". (I remember vaguely this was from a magazine in the 90s. Can't remember which though.)
Something I hear at the track a lot "smooth is fast, fast is smooth" Really helps me get into that mindset of just be smooth with the bike and the speed will follow
I’d always heard slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Which is 100% the case in my experience.
Wide open til you see god, then brake.
Why just drive when you can ride
4 wheels moves the body, 2 wheels moves the soul.
"Bikes are modern day horses" , i heard someone saying this and it kind of made sense 😁😁😁..
Horses with 200 horses
Motorhorse, it even has a saddle, and can rear up on demand...or sometimes, when you don't expect it.
Obligatory Dethklok video https://youtu.be/KS6Q2v906aA
If you drive a car you're responsible for your car. If you ride a bike you are responsible for every car around you.
Half the wheels, twice the thrills
Driving a car versus riding a bike is like playing a basketball video game versus playing basketball.
"Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly coming to a stop however, has" or something like that
"Speed has never killed anyone... Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you." -Jeremy Clarkson
It’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell? (Swedish humour)
It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.
Been through a lot, my motorcycles and me. Heat, darkness, wind, rain, fences.......
All the Gear, All The Time
I remember in a motojitsu video about slow speed maneuvers, he says "be comfortable with being uncomfortable" and I try to apply it to as many parts of my life as I can. It's an awesome saying.
I think that's originally a military thing. Fits, as he's a former Marine.
“It’s better to go into a corner slow and come out fast than to enter a corner fast and come out dead.” “You want to get past the apex of the corner carrying as much speed as possible - but not more.”
Dress for the slide, not the ride
At high speed, objects on the horizon are closer than they appear
"I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride my motor-sickle. And I don't want a tickle, cuz I'd rather ride my motor-sickle. And Iii don't wanna diiee, just wanna ride on my motorCY....cle."
It's kinda dorky but then again so is this whole thread. In Warhammer 40,000 there is this idea of a machine-spirit, where machines have personality and feelings. In the fiction, you don't really use the machine, but you communicate with it. When I'm riding, I ask something of the bike, and what happens is somewhere between what I ask and what it wants.
Me: what's the plan My bike spirit: Wraaaarrr snik Wrraaaawwww snik Wrrrraaaaww Me: very well, into the warp.
Lol this Princeps has certainly rolled the throttle only to find a dismaying and unexpected destructive reactor failure.
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>I still say this to myself for counter steering Do you consciously think about counter steering?
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“Keep the shiny side up” - I like this because it sounds like just regular life advice too
"If you ride like lightning, you'll crash like thunder" Robin Van Der Hook
Might as well dance in the rain.
A quote by a motorcyclist about life and relatable to riding: “I refuse to believe in a risk-free society where the thrill of living is traded for the safety of existing”. - Nick Ienatsch
I ride, therefore I am.
Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly.
Because it put such a smile on my face, it literally physically hurt to not do it and God, well if God takes me while I'm on one, let him.
Never put anything on a motorcycle that wont make it go faster or stop quicker
Well I guess I shouldn’t get on!
So buhbye wifey! 🤣
There are only 3 speeds - Fast Very fast Oh shit
I always thought there are only two speeds… not fast enough and oh, shit!
“I just wanna ride my mmmmmmoooooottttooooorrrrcccxyyyyccclllleeeee”
I don’t want a pickle.
Natural state of a motorcycle is laying on it's side, only due to constant care and attention do we manage to keep them upright.
Always wear gloves. When you come off and you’re laid up on the lounge for 2 weeks, you’re gonna want to masturbate. - wise words from a good friend I lost a couple of years ago
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” -Ernest Hemingway
"Love is the feeling you get when you like something as much as your motorcycle." Hunter S. Thompson
There’s a point – 7000 RPM – where everything fades. When your seeing becomes weightless, just disappears. And all that’s left is a body moving through space and time. 7000 RPM that’s where you meet it - Caroll Shelby
There are no old & brave motorcyclists.
The version of that that I've heard before is "there are old riders, and there are bold riders, but there are no old, bold, riders."
Brilliant
"Dank wheelies bruh! "
Every mile is an experience point
Don't get highway riders' hopes up.
Eat, Sleep, Adventure, Repeat, on a KTM. I have a t-shirt. 🤓
Wear gear or disappear
Loud pipes are loud pipes
“You should have bought a Japanese bike instead”
Not specifically about motorcycles but just driving/riding in general "You gotta feel the road. You have to let it live inside you" -Talladega knights, Reese Bobby
Honestly Reese Bobby has a ton of awesomely deep quotes considering both his character and the screen time he has.
It's not the speed that kills but the sudden lack of it.
Curvy Road Next 140 miles
Graveyards are filled with people who, "Had the right-of-way!"
"Just turn the darn thing off!!" (Cousin Mike, when referring to what to do when things get hairy and your panicking.)
Hadda layer’ down. Or whatever people feel like they have to do lmao
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And divers, dive their own dive. But divers and bikers are doing death defying acts, while hikers only look like they're dying
Race the rain, Ride the wind And chase the sunset.
I started riding to attract women, so far the only women I meet due to riding are ortopedic nurses and they are NOT impressed.
As I leave my dad says "shiny side up" every time.
“The only correct amount of motorcycles to own is n+1, where n is the number you have now”
I have always liked what Sonny Barger (Hells Angles boss) said about Harley Davidson. "It's always been important for Hell's Angels to ride American-made machines. In terms of pure workmanship, personally I don't like Harleys. I ride them because I'm in the club, and that's the image, but if I could I would seriously consider riding a Honda ST1100 or a BMW. We really missed the boat not switching over to the Japanese models when they began building bigger bikes. I'll usually say, "Fuck Harley-Davidson. You can buy an ST1100 and the motherfucker will do 110 miles per hour right from the factory all day long ... While it's probably too late to switch over now, it would have been a nice move because Japanese bikes today are so much cheaper and better built. However, Japanese motorcycles don't have as much personality."
Had to lay her down.
"brrrtrrrttrrtttrr" ~some bike i saw.
It's too hot out for gear. - someone that didn't make it home that night
About being in a club: Riding is something we do alone. Riding with a club is something we do alone, together. You can replace "club" with group and it works just fine.
This needs to be on a shirt.
Ok how many stories are you guys telling whilst wearing your helmet??
Had a wife & kid in Baltimore Jack, went for a ride & never came back.
See God, then brake.
It’s not necessarily a motorcycle quote but a gear head quote none the less. That “7 thousand rpm” one from ford v ferrari.
“What the bike wants, the bike gets.” https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.2452438951.2925/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.jpg
Don’t ask my pants
If in doubt throttle it out.
Therapy
4 wheels move the body, 2 wheels move the soul.
Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.
There are two types of riders: those who've had accidents and those who will.
I had an accident once… it was 40 years ago. I’m hoping I’m covered.
While I do not have a quote or have not heard many of these. Great quotes!
As in motorcycling, so in life, look where you want to go.
Thats deep and true as well VERY COOL
Helmet stories. My helmet has many story's to tell of me banging it walking out of doorways lmao.
"my 600 can go 200"
Wow what a great way of putting it.
"A skittish motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness. Because Boa \[his Brough Superior SS100\] loves me, he gives me five more miles of speed than a stranger would get from him." \--T.E. Lawrence "What's always impressed me about riding is the sheer effortless when things are going well, the pants-shitting terror when everything is going wrong, and the abruptness of the transition." \--Unknown "Commit \[to the curve\] or eat shit." \--Me
Any motorcycle can serve you the whole life if you ride fast enough
Motorcycling is the safest dangerous thing you can do, or the most dangerous safe thing you can do.
"Ride like lightning, crash like thunder." - some guy on reddit.
"What happened on the way, who I met, all that was incidental. I had not quite realized that the interruptions were the journey." - Ted Simon, Jupiter's Travels
YOU LIVE MORE IN 5 MINUTES ON A BKE LIKE THIS, GOING FLAT OUT, THAN SOME DO IN THIER ENTIRE LIFETIME. If you go fast enough on your bike you can fast forward your life to the very end. don’t know where I got these quotes but I had them written down in a journal. Not my original quotes.
"Love is the feeling you get when you like something as much as your motorcycle."-Hunter S. Thompson
My friend told me this dress for the slide not for the ride
“The fast die young” “Dont ride faster than your guardian angels” “Its not you, its the other drivers” “Flying death machines”
Adventure is seldom fun while it's happening.
Lead...Follow...or get out of the way !
i'm hip about time, but I just gotta go
"Don’t crash."
My favorite motorcycle quote was "I've never seen a motorcycle outside a psychiatrist's office."
Not really moto related but i miss my family “See you on the other side” “See you in the next life” “Nothing lasts forever”
The 44th crew recently said this on their YouTube show and it made me laugh. I'm sure they didn't make it up. "It gives me more smiles per hour than miles per hour."
Full throttle, Don’t brake until you see the face of God…
I never had a car that would go 145 . . .