Favorite Motorcycling Quotes from the Internet

[supertankerm60a3]

I like my 17 year old daughters quote referencing a friends minor mishap. "He dropped a DUCATI! That's like lighting Channel No5 on fire!"

Another quote of hers (on her 18th birthday) "I am ABSOLUTLEY surprised! Otherwise, I would have worn makeup."

Back to motoercycles, there is my sinature line, that was thought of while talking to a friend who drinks too much fights too much and tries to go too fast, while discussing the pros and (mostly) cons of a supercharged V-Max. "Dude, a bike will keep you young but the wrong bike will stop you from getting older, there IS a difference."

 

[Intech]

Whereever I haved lived, and always rural, I make a point of riding all the back roads. One time while on some really rural back roads in Maine the conversation went like this:

Me: "I know where this will come out."(Then we came out where I thought we would)

Janet: "How did you know that?"

Me: "I came out here and just rode around."

Janet: "Weren't you afraid of getting lost?"

Me: "How can you get lost if you don't know where you are going?"

 

[huron52]

Since I have to spend the next five weeks in this air cast while my Achilles Tendon tries to mend itself I thought I would completely waste my time reading ride reports over on some of the other forums. I came across this little gem by EvilClown on ADVRider....

Somewhere in one of my GoPro videos I think I said, "The only thing that could make us any dorkier is if we were on GSs."

This made me think we need a clearing house of sorts for the little pearls that we stumble across from time to time. Have fun adding on......

When I first read what Bll wrote I thought he said
I have to spend five weeks in this ART CLASS..... I thought WTF!

 

[Bungie]

Since I have to spend the next five weeks in this air cast while my Achilles Tendon tries to mend itself I thought I would completely waste my time reading ride reports over on some of the other forums. I came across this little gem by EvilClown on ADVRider....

Somewhere in one of my GoPro videos I think I said, "The only thing that could make us any dorkier is if we were on GSs."

This made me think we need a clearing house of sorts for the little pearls that we stumble across from time to time. Have fun adding on......

When I first read what Bll wrote I thought he said
I have to spend five weeks in this ART CLASS..... I thought WTF!

Yamafitter: "Paint me like one of your French girls"

 

[mcatrophy]

Not sure where I got this one, but I use it as a fairly serious answer for when I'm told "Motorcycling is dangerous".

"I may ride a motorcycle, but I am not positively suicidal."

 

[majicmaker]

Not sure where I got this one, but I use it as a fairly serious answer for when I'm told "Motorcycling is dangerous".
"I may ride a motorcycle, but I am not positively suicidal."

Mc, My response to that statement is: "I always ride like everyone is out to kill me!"

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Mc, My response to that statement is: "I always ride like everyone is out to kill me!"

Why would you think that? Everyone does not know you personally!

 

[gixxerjasen]

My favorite thing I've said about motorcycling was at the FZ1 rally in Arkansas. We had a ride leader that was showing us some great roads. I usually am the type to stress over routes and where we are and such. However, at a gas stop some other riders approached me and asked "Where are you guys headed?" I replied "I haven't a clue....don't even know where we are right now, I'm just following the leader and enjoying the ride."

I do have to say though, the whole getting yourself lost on purpose on your own is made much easier when you know you have a gps that you can turn on and hit the "Go Home" button when it's all said and done.

 

[majicmaker]

Mc, My response to that statement is: "I always ride like everyone is out to kill me!"

Why would you think that? Everyone does not know you personally!

It's 50/50 with those who love me and those who don't. Good thing is, I'm still here!

 

[gixxerjasen]

Posted on Redfish Hunter's ride report.

By the time I am old enough to want to ride a GoldWing, I will be too old to ride a GoldWing.

 

[mcatrophy]

..."I haven't a clue....don't even know where we are right now, I'm just following the leader and enjoying the ride."...

That's how all of my group rides have been except when I've been leading. Sometimes even then ...

...I do have to say though, the whole getting yourself lost on purpose on your own is made much easier when you know you have a gps that you can turn on and hit the "Go Home" button when it's all said and done.

That's how most of my solo rides out seem to go. (And some group rides when I'm leading.)

For we types who feel uncomfortable with uncertainty, Satnav is a god-send.

(For the record, I rarely lead groups, and even then, the group usually consists of one other bike.

)

 

[gixxerjasen]

Yea, I don't like to miss dinner (hence why my suits are so snug on me) so I don't like living that life of uncertainty.

It also helps when you are leading a buddy and he decides you aren't going fast enough and jumps in front of you for a fantastic sweeper and completely blows by the turn you guys were supposed to take.

 

[rbentnail]

"I haven't a clue....don't even know where we are right now, I'm just following the leader and enjoying the ride."

Haven't posted b/c I'm just not that witty but you reminded my of a couple:

A buddy and I had been on the road for a couple days, going to Maine from NC for a lobstah lunch. We pull into a convenience store/gas station and go on in. As I'm paying for some water and pretzels I say to the li'l fellers behind the counter, "hey man, we've been on the road a few days. What state are we in?" He says Taxachusetts. "Damn!", I said to my buddy, "you'da thought we made it to New Hampsha by now."

Same trip, coming home. We meandered from Maine across NH and into Brattleboro, VT. My buddy calls his wife just to let her know we're ok- she's the worrying type. Suddenly he busts a gut, nearly falling down from laughing. His wife actually said, "Vermont? What part of Illinois is that in?" We still give her shit about that.....

 

[yamafitter]

This little gem from Redfish Hunter....

Cousin David had refused to go into the Harley shop. He lay down in the shade of a nearby porch. When I told him I had spent over $100 on 3 T-shirts, he was disgusted. "You should have consulted with a grown up before you did that."

and this one from Craigman on ADVRider...

Someone started putting names on lunches here at work...Today I had a tuna sandwich named "Kevin"...it was delicious!

 

[yamafitter]

From the Honda Blackbird Forum via exskibum.....

"Harley Davidson -- the most efficient way to turn gasoline into noise without the undesirable side effect of horsepower."

 

[yamafitter]

Yamafitter: "Paint me like one of your French girls"

Do you have any idea how Ghey that sounds

 

[Riona]

My engineering hero is Colin Chapman - a few of his quotes:

"Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere"

"simplicate, then add lightness"

"Make the suspension adjustable and they will adjust it wrong, look at what they can do to a Weber carburetor in just a few moments of stupidity with a screwdriver"

And on a completely different track, Jethro Tull:

"You're never too old to Rock'n'Roll, if you're too young to die"

 

[Redfish Hunter]

From the Honda Blackbird Forum via exskibum.....

"Harley Davidson -- the most efficient way to turn gasoline into noise without the undesirable side effect of horsepower."

I like that one. I have seen it a few times with little variations.

Harley Davidson-Turning petroleum into smoke and noise without that pesky side effect called horsepower since 1903.

 

[MCRIDER007]

From a Ride Report that is yet to be posted......response to the US Border Patrol when returning from Canada:

I'm sorry Officer, I don't have any idea what my license plate number is.....and I don't know where I am or where I am going....I'm just following him!

 

[networkguy]

Only motorcyclists know why dogs stick their head out the window-