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You've never ridden a motorcycle before?"
"Nope."
"What kind of bad-boy girlfriend are you?" I ask in mock dismay.
"Evidently a terrible one."
I swing onto the bike and grab my only helmet. "Nah, you just haven't met the right bad-boy.
You have my attention.
I know you want a motorcycle or you will think you want one for a while.
Well, I don't have one.
But I have an unusual heart.
And you can have it if you want it.
The motorcycle is a system. A real system.
Since I've become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and themselves.
I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.
I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.
Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
Motorcycle adventures are the perfect antidote to middle age.
Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.
Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom, Putin said.
Is it about a bicycle?
A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.
I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
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I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.
So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.
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.
With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74,
Jesus Christ on a bike
With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.
There are more stolen bikes in my garage than there are stars in the galaxy.
The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29 bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
Kind of like Batman. On a motorcycle.
We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here"
"How do you know the bike model?" I asked.
"I'm a boy. We like engines
their bikes and playing kick
In the argot of the cycle world the Harley is a "hog," and the outlaw bike is a "chopped hog.
Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of life.
I should have a gun."
"And you think I can provide it?"
"Ask your biker gang buddies."
"They prefer the term 'motorcycle club.'"
"I'm sure they do.
I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. It's exhausting. You get cold.
I used to be a daredevil on BMX bikes.
A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.
Who's driving this motorcycle and who's in the bloody sidecar? I don't ride in the sidecar. I don't even own a pussy bike with a sidecar.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
I love biker chicks!
Bikes are for riding; they're not car hats.
I had never ridden on a Harley that had only two wheels. I'd never ridden on any motorcycle that had only two wheels.
Bike. Got the old girl out of
Wheels turning, the motorcycle's roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.
Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking.
I got rid of my motorcycle when Jimmy was born. I'm not allowed to die in a bike crash anymore.
I've never been on a bike," I say. "I mean, I've been on a bike but not a motorcycle."
"And why is that?" he asks.
"Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That's just gross."
Chris makes a face.
"If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.
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Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.
The motorcycle is obviously a sexual symbol. It's what's called a phallic locomotor symbol. It's an extension of one's body, a power between one's legs.
-Dr. Bernard Diamond, University of California
criminologist, 1965
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era ... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.
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There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.
We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage
I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.
A motorcyclist rode down the empty street, arms and legs rounded in an O, and came back up with the sound of thunder; his face displayed seriousness of a child who attributes the utmost importance to his howls
There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle - lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.
Two motorcycles rumble in behind me and park in open spots. It's Pigpen and Dust. They're part of the volunteers tailing me and Violet until we're safe.
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar.
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong
on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.
I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years old. It was a frame with wheels and a tank on it and all the parts in a box.
Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.
There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
Awareness is the key to surviving on a motorcycle. Always be aware of your surroundings, and actively scan your surroundings at all times.
I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.
Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street.
What the fuck is that? Harley Vibrator?
I don't even own a bike.
I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.
I can drive anything on wheels ... I can drive anything, actually.
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
The Angels are not articulate about many things, but they bring a lover's inspiration to the subject of bikes.
When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet.
Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.
Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
The leading cause of motorcycle accidents is the nut that connects the saddle to the handlebars. Human
Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike.
Hey motor cycle mama, you gonna marry me?
Who said happily ever after couldn't involve bikers?
Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I'm in hog heaven.
This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.
It really was a hell of a motorcycle, ..It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.
I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.
I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.
I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had.
My parents won't let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I'd only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.
What is this?"
"It's a Harley."
I looked at him from the corner of my eye before turning my silent censure back onto his bike.
"I was implying that you should take me to your big boy mode of transportation instead.
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike ... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.