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Virago
23rd May 2007, 13:23
I did a search on a few of these and found nothing, although some I've heard before. (Cut'n'paste from an email received this morning):

"I'd rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle."

"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."

"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."

"Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existence."

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

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

"Keep your bike in good repair: Motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking."

"The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome."

"If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride."

"Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary."

"Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck."

"Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes."

"When you're riding lead, don't spit."

"Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy."

"Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly."

"If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there won't be."

"If you really want to know what’s going on, watch what’s happening at least five [vehicles] ahead."

"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."

"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."

"If she changes her oil more than she changes her mind, follow her."

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

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

"Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't."

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




"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..." - Hunter Thompson

"There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games." - Ernest Hemingway

"A zest for living must include a willingness to die." - R.A. Heinlein

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." - Alexei Sayle

"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle." - Stephan Jenkins

"If I'm out trail-riding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite.
If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite." - Evel Knievel

"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times." - Evel Knievel

"When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write." - Chantal Kreviazuk

"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

Toaster
23rd May 2007, 13:28
Cool stuff... I enjoyed that.

Swoop
23rd May 2007, 13:31
It has been up before, but there is so much truth and wisdom in that lot... :ride:

riffer
23rd May 2007, 14:57
Nice. And you even included my signature (the Dickey quote). :yes:

Bass
23rd May 2007, 15:06
The first classic race meet that I went to when we moved to Auckland (attended by John Surtees) had a program that included a glossary of motocycling terms.

They were magic - sadly I can only remember 2 of them.

Saddlebag - An unattractive female pillion passenger.
Rectifier - That type of accident where the rider leaves the machine and slides down the track in a sitting position.

tri boy
23rd May 2007, 15:17
Alexei Sayle. :killingme :killingme :killingme :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Bonez
23rd May 2007, 16:52
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

Oscar
23rd May 2007, 17:30
Four wheels move the body, Two wheels move the soul.

"200mph, no hands. Damn that'd be cool right before the part where you die." - A. Duthie

"There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games."
Ernest Hemingway

"Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls." - Stirling Moss

"Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle."

Seen on a motorcycle's rearveiws - "Warning: objects seen in mirror are disappearing rapidly"

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

There's the V-4 thing - there's just something about it that inline 4s don't have, and V-twins have too much of. - Murray Duncan

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

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

"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..." Hunter Thompson

"Keep thy eye on the tach thine ears on the engine least thy whirlybits seek communion with the sun" John 4:50

"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."

"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!"

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world. -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden

"I believe in treating everyone with respect, but, first you have to get their attention."

"Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existence".

Everyone knows Honda's attitude in the GP Paddock!
" Who will be behind us this weekend? "

"A zest for living must include a willingness to die."
R.A. Heinlein

If you think you don't need a helmet, you probably don't.

"Racing is living, everything else is just waiting"

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.--Larry McMurty

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

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

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

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.

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

Bonez
23rd May 2007, 17:32
Don't argue with an 18 wheeler............

Bonez
23rd May 2007, 17:35
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Skyryder
23rd May 2007, 20:46
Douglas Dragonfly A Drone of a Bike.

Skyryder

Conquiztador
23rd May 2007, 21:07
" My motorbike, the next best thing for a school girl to sit on"

Sign on a closed bike shop door: "It is a nice day, we are out riding our bikes, so should you"

Sign on bike clubs door: "Big dog on guard, enter only if you are a total idiot"

"I like getting lost, it gives me a reson to ride more"