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Biker Wisdom
- Midnight bugs taste best.
- Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold
everything you need.
- You'll get farther down the road if you learn to use more than two
fingers on the front brake.
- It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the
bed.
- The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
- Never be afraid to slow down.
- Only Bikers understand why dogs love to stick their heads out car
windows.
- Never ask a biker for directions if you're in a hurry to get there.
- Don't ride so late into the night that you sleep through thesunrise.
- Mountain Dew and peanut M&M's are as important as gasoline.
- Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of gas before you can think
straight.
- Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you'll ride alone.
- Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of
town.
- Never mistake Horsepower for staying power.
- A good rider has balance, judgment, and good timing. So does a good
lover.
- A cold hamburger can be reheated quite nicely by strapping it to an
exhaust pipe and riding forty miles.
- Never do less then Forty miles before breakfast.
- If you don't ride in the rain-you don't ride.
- A bike on the road is worth 2 in the shop.
- Young riders pick a destination and go... Old riders pick a
direction and go.
- A good wrench will let you watch without charging you for it.
- Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
- Always back your scoot into the curb-and sit where you can see it.
- Work to ride-Ride to work.
- Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.
- Two lane blacktop isn't a highway-it's an attitude.
- When you look down the road, it seems to never end-but you better
believe it does.
- Winter is Natures way of telling you to polish.
- A motorcycle can't sing on the streets of a city.
- Keep your bike in good repair: Motorcycle boots are NOT comfortable
for walking.
- People are like Motorcycles: each is customized a bit differently.
- If the bike ain't braking properly, you don't start by rebuilding
the engine.
- Remember to pay as much attention to your partner as you do your
carburetor.
- Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate
bikes.
- Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.
- Good coffee should be indistinguishable from 50 weight motor oil.
- The best alarm clock is sunshine on Chrome.
- Learn to do counterintuitive things that may someday save your butt.
- The twisties- not the superslabs- separate the bikers from the
squids.
- When you're riding lead--don't spit.
- If you really want to know what's going on, watch what's happening
at least 5 cars ahead.
- Don't make a reputation you'll have to live down or run away from
later.
- A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2am to drive his pickup
to the middle of nowhere to get you when you're broken down.
- Catchin' a June bug (or yellowjacket in your goggles or honeybee
down your shirt) @ 70 mph can double your vocabulary.
- There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
- Practice wrenching on your own bike.
- Owning 2 bikes is useful because at least one can be raided for
parts at any given time.
- You'll know she loves you if she offers to let you ride her bike.
Don't do it and she'll love you even more.
- Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.
- Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit.
- Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
- A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up
a lot of gasoline.
- If the countryside seems boring, stop, get off your bike, and go sit
in the ditch long enough to appreciate what was here before the asphalt came.
- If you ride like there's no tomorrow-there won't be.
- Gray-haired bikers don't get that way from pure luck.
- The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.
- You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the
breeze.
- No matter what you ride, it's all the same wind.
- The only Zen you find riding is the Zen you brought with
you.