• Midnight bugs taste best.
• Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
• Home is where your bike sits still long enough to leave a few drops of oil on the ground.
• The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
• Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.
• Never mistake horsepower for staying power.
• If you don't ride in the rain - you don't ride.
• A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
• Young riders pick a destination and go. . . Old riders pick a direction and go.
• A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
• Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
• Winter is Nature's way of telling you to polish your bike.
• Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.
• The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome.
• A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2 am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere.
• There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
• Practice wrenching on your own bike.
• Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit
• Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
• If you ride like there's no tomorrow - there won't be.
• Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck
• There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.
• No matter what marquee you ride, it's all the same wind.
• Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
Here is one more, and I think it beats all of the above. This was sent by "A Scooter in Turkey" and I do believe, all of us "Iron Horse Riders" can really and truly and completely not only identify with this statement but actually feel it in our bones when we ride and I quote:
Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul.
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5 comments:
A good list.
I especially like Young riders pick a destination and go. . . Old riders pick a direction and go.
One to add is Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul.
Thanks John...I like this one and will add it to the list
Cheers
I agree with John, I discovered years ago that picking a direction and just "going", takes me to the most amazing destinations. I rarely follow a road map or an itinerary.
Ride Well
E.T.
Hi Baron,
''Two wheels moves the soul'' kinda just sums it all up really....
Earl Thomas Both you and John are right. I am very much like you, although I'm trying to get more organized now and as soon as the riding season opens up here, I will try to do/make organized trips.
Dave... Yeah John summed it all up very nicely with that statement...it says everthing and hence we ride.
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