Favorite Motorcycling Quotes from the Internet

[gixxerjasen]

Wish I could find it, but it got lost with a database crash. On the TL board, there was a guy named Troy I think. He was describing his tires or new suspension upgrade or something. Anyway, it went something along the lines of ....

"The bike flicked into the turn like a crusty booger from a day of sanding body panels."

It was classic and resided in my sig line for a long time.

 

[Fred W]

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

Excellent! I love that one.

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

I'd change that to read: "You are the reason I'm so far above average."

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

Another good one.
I also recall reading a quote attributed to Jeff that went something like: All of the talk about chicken strips is a bunch of BS

 

[clocklaw]

As seen on ADV:

"I dunno who she is, but I'd pay a dollar to watch her eat a jar of mayonnaise." - Bender

 

[dcarver]

"He chose a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

---Toecutter, speaking of OrangevaleFJR's suicide

"Why straighten out a perfectly good twisty road"

--Toecutter

 

[garyahouse]

These aren't really quotes, they're just some thoughts I thought I'd throw out there:

You limit what you know if you don't know your limit.

--I found out what mine was on Monday July 1.

----What's yours?

The more you twist the throttle, the less you notice the scenery.

I learned this last week as well--guess ya gotta ask, which is more important?

Turn corners, turn heads, or turn wrenches: you are the turns you make.

Which is more dangerous, going REALLY fast, or thinking you can?

--another reason ya better know your limits.

Looking at the road is more important than looking at the GPS... FOR the road.

---that little lesson almost cost me some hospital time. It was a REALLY close call.

Many races are won by someone thought they never would, and lost by someone who assumed they never could.

Certain yer a great rider? Remember that to be genuinely deceived, you must first be convinced that you are NOT.

And this one certainly applies to motorcycles:

The man who rows the boat never criticizes it's progress

--and this one similar to it:

The man who rocks the boat has probably never rowed one.

--that one's for all the naysayers who said I couldn't do it.

Well, I did.

Coast to coast, 2400 miles in 48 1/2 hours; with two bottles of ocean water, 4 witnesses, 18 receipts, a seriously dirty FJR, and one sore butt to prove it.

Gary

darksider #44

 

[Wine Guy]

" If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done! "

 

[yamafitter]

This one from RidetheRock.com while doing some research for 2014 CFR .....

"When all else fails, GAS IT! It may not fix the problem but it will end the suspense!"

 

[rushes]

via rickcorwn:

It's only far, if you don't go
Danny Liska

 

[yamafitter]

From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.....

The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!

I think I'll tell my motorcycle this the next time I park and leave the sidestand up.

 

[Fred W]

You missed this one Billy:

Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the Law!

 

[redtail]

Let him have the bike, it's cheaper than a mistress!

My friend Tommy when I was buying my FJR!!!

 

[gray ray]

Motorcycle racers prayer,

Please God, help me get around this corner, I have run out of talent.

 

[RayW]

One I picked up years ago that was, I think, from one of OrangevaleFJR's posts:

"Sometimes you are riding along and see a road that you've never seen before,
from a road that you've never been on before and you figure, well,
I won't be any more lost if I take that one."

 

[juniorfjr]

A couple years ago one of us's daughter said something like.

"I won't know where I'm going until I get there"

He used on his sig line, who was it?

 

[Fred W]

"Sometimes you are riding along and see a road that you've never seen before,
from a road that you've never been on before and you figure, well,

I won't be any more lost if I take that one."

I really, really, really like this one.

Not just because the legend Andrew Orangevale said it, even though I liked the vast majority of his thoughts I had seen.

It just strikes home with me.

Of course, being real men, we are never really lost., are we?

We might not know exactly where we are at any particular point in time,

but we aren't necessarily lost. Though in the end analysis, it does appears that he was. So very sad, even still.

I sort of like the feeling of not knowing exactly where I stand.

It imitates the rest of my life in a general sense.

 

[Fred W]

A couple years ago one of us's daughter said something like.
"I won't know where I'm going until I get there"

He used on his sig line, who was it?

Unfortunately, it was not an original quote, from whomever it was.

"I won't know where I'm going until I get there"

 

[Knifemaker]

^sounds like the long version of my own quote.

Wife: "Where do you go when you "go for a ride?" "

Me: "I try to get lost"

 

[ionbeam]

I tell pillion, "If we know where we are, I screwed up."

 

[RayW]

"Sometimes you are riding along and see a road that you've never seen before,
from a road that you've never been on before and you figure, well,

I won't be any more lost if I take that one."

I really, really, really like this one.

Not just because the legend Andrew Orangevale said it, even though I liked the vast majority of his thoughts I had seen.

It just strikes home with me.

Of course, being real men, we are never really lost., are we?

We might not know exactly where we are at any particular point in time,

but we aren't necessarily lost. Though in the end analysis, it does appears that he was. So very sad, even still.

I sort of like the feeling of not knowing exactly where I stand.

It imitates the rest of my life in a general sense.

I never got to know Andrew at all. Was, and still am more of a lurker here. But there was something that just resonated with that quote.

I've actually done a couple small local rides with that kind of philosophy in mind.

I would stop at an interscection and mentally "flip a coin" and pick heads one way and tails the other...then have my passenger pick one, not knowing which direction it would take us. Kind of fun that way. Just exploring some local roads and letting fate decide where we go. Keeping it local meant that sooner or later we would run across a familiar, or at least a more major, road and from there I could find my way home.

 

[wnyfjr]

I always liked a line from the movie Quigly Down Under. The hero is asked by the damsel he's rescuing if they are lost. He confidently answers "Nope, I know right where we are." and then under his breath continues "I don't know where we're goin' but there's no sense in bein' late."

They were riding during this exchange...OK, so it was a horse, but still...