Favorite Motorcycling Quotes from the Internet

[gixxerjasen]

My dad and I share quotes we find back and forth, so I'm digging through my emails for this. They aren't specifically motorcycle, but do apply I think.

Don't know the source, but it's one my dad sent me he found online.

"The secret to life is to do one thing each day that scares you. "

Some others I found somewhere....

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

If you can't fix it with a hammer, it's an electrical problem...

 

[majicmaker]

If you can't fix it with a hammer, it's an electrical problem...

That right there is the 11th Commandment in the Airplane Mechanic's Bible!

 

[gixxerjasen]

Well, real spiders can be fixed with a hammer, but not ground spiders, so....

 

[JimNtexas]

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.

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

 

[bluesdog]

When life throws you a curve… lean into it.

 

[Fred W]

I used to have this in my sig line, and I think it's MC fitting:

"I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe, but at least I'm enjoying the ride" -- John Perry Barlow, lyricist for Grateful Dead

Here's another that may be somewhat controversial:

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

 

[majicmaker]

I used to have this in my sig line, and I think it's MC fitting:
"I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe, but at least I'm enjoying the ride" -- John Perry Barlow, lyricist for Grateful Dead

Here's another that may be somewhat controversial:

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

I kinda like both of those Fred!

 

[PhilJet09]

Here's another that may be somewhat controversial:

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

Maybe controversial for some, but not for this Roman Catholic raised mid-western boy. I use that one all the time!

 

[Chuck35]

Here's another that may be somewhat controversial:
"I'd rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle." -- Anon

I often think of this on my Sunday rides.

 

[HotRodZilla]

"Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice."

"If I couldn't ride them fast, I wouldn't ride them."

 

[Geezer]

"Yes Officer I did see the Speed Limit sign I just didn't see YOU"

DCarvers sig line on FJRForum

Who had it first? dcarver or Niehart ?

You are correct, it is the pie man, not Dcarver. I edited my original post.

 

[luvtoride]

I do believe it was Toecutter from this forum... "Loud pipes get passes"

 

[NightShine]

I do believe it was Toecutter from this forum... "Loud pipes get passes passed"

I think... Unless Bob had something else in mind...

 

[allrider]

I'd rather ride a slow bike fast, than a fast bike slow.

 

[yamafitter]

I was checking out the Wild Dog Adventure Riding forum from South Africa when I came across this one....

"The problem with internet quotes is you never know if they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

 

[clocklaw]

Are you the reason I'm so far above average?

 

[bgross]

I will never sell my Miss Lucy Liu! Even though I am a confirmed Beemerholic addict, my 2003 FJR is the best motorcycle I have owned in all my moto riding years!

beemerdons

Until a 2013 moved into his garage, and MLL asked to be relocated from the desert to the beach.

Now known as Lucille, she's enjoying being the best bike *I've* ever had - and teasing the Wingabago, who spends weeks at a time on the battery tender.

"Never say never."

 

[Goody]

Michael J. Pollard as Little, in Little Fauss and Big Halsey,

"I was going faster than I ever went in my whole life, then I fell off."

 

[luvtoride]

I do believe it was Toecutter from this forum... "Loud pipes get passes passed"

I think... Unless Bob had something else in mind...

That is correct... think that I fat fingered or something.

 

[Intech]

I think it was Jeff Ashe post that I saw this one: "You can't get traction on squirrels."