Something to read - by Frederick Seidel

[jmgrif]

For those who like to read!

https://harpers.org/archive/2009/11/about-motorcycles/

 

[RaYzerman19]

Enjoyed that! He's a good writer.

 

[Chiefblueman]

"The point is if you are afraid you ought not to be doing it. Anything that would interrupt your vigilance has to be vaporized before it begins. You aren’t afraid. It doesn’t occur to you to be. You have to be free to float free into a state of mind in which you are in a trance of attentiveness. Once you give fear the right to exist, you better stop riding"

"...... having said that, I have to say in addition that I never was able to love any of the aircraft. I was not able to love the equipment, which was always a central part of the pleasure of motorcycling, the machine turned into a fetish, made into a love object."

Frederick Seidel

With these two quotes, Mr. Seidel has very eloquently summed up a great deal of my feelings regarding my love of motorcycling. I am going to frame them and hang them in my mini moto temple.

Thanks JM!!!