Motorcycle Quotes

Got these in an email today. Feel free to add more.


Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.

"Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle."

"Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 110."

Midnight bugs taste best.

Never try to race an old geezer, he may have one more gear than you.

It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed.

Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of fuel before you can think straight.

A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.

Respect the person who has seen the dark side of motorcycling and lived.

A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.

Winter is Nature's way of telling you to do mods.

Good coffee should be indistinguishable from 50 weight motor oil.

The twisties - not the superslabs -separate the riders from the squids.

Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck.

The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.

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

i think i saw this in someone's sig here on the boards, dont remember who though.

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Motorcycling is not, of itself, inherently dangerous.
It is, however, extremely unforgiving of inattention,
ignorance, incompetence, or stupidity.
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That's a good one but there are too many commas.

I think this from HST fits in well:

There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.

"(This is a) forced march through my personal history. I don't think many people could sit calmly while boxes of intimate - and in some cases no doubt incriminating - correspondence were dredged up from sealed basement vaults. But I did, Bubba, but always from afar, from the greatest distance, trying not to cause trouble - and because I wanted to stay in the shadows and act like I was dead, and others tried to act the same way. Mistah Thompson, he dead.... We all understood that their lives and their long-range professional Fate would be a lot easier if I went out on a slick Ducati motorcycle one night and never came back."
-Hunter S. Thompson

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On that note, here's somthin' you can quote me on:

If you crash your motorcycle hard enough that it makes bones stick out of your body, it'll leave a mark.

Anyone here want to chip in so we can buy Mental a T-shirt?
It could say: "GUARD-RAILS SUCK".

My wife thinks it should say: "Do not resuscitate."

Doh.....

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Doh.....

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Oh man, that's just SOOOOOOOO wrong. Ouch.

She still a little "bothered" about the 998 and that it's in the bedroom?

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Doh.....

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hubert whats your sig video of? is that sete complaining about his shoulder and rossi laughin about it??

Hey Mental- You ever read Maxim magazine? They have a best scar contest... I think you might be a shoe in (pardon the pun).

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A decent bloke would FNCK off and let the mechanic work

I'd definitely charge double, infact I'd just give the tools to the watcher and say 'Here you do it ... I'll just make up the bill' ... anybody that likes to be micro managed is a moron, so why do it to your mechanic?

Pete

There used to be a sign in my local shop that read:

Labor Rate - $20/hour
If You Watch - $30/hour
If You Help - $60/hour