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- Ginger - 06-29-2006
.paul Wrote:free like a bird i'll only fly away
I'm pretty sure you just crossed some kind of invisble line
- .paul - 06-29-2006
asteele2 Wrote:.paul Wrote:free like a bird i'll only fly away
I'm pretty sure you just crossed some kind of invisble line
well im just trying to be on par with you :lol:
- Kaan - 06-29-2006
asteele2 Wrote:That just means that they're smarter than we are.
no that just means they dont know how to live life... thats not a quality i look for in a woman.
- Ginger - 06-29-2006
.paul Wrote:asteele2 Wrote:.paul Wrote:free like a bird i'll only fly away
I'm pretty sure you just crossed some kind of invisble line
well im just trying to be on par with you :lol:
Weak
Re: Why Do you Ride? - Evan - 06-29-2006
asteele2 Wrote:8.) Because "Hop on the back and wrap your arms around me" is a great icebreaker.LOL.....just like all the girls you tried to kick game to on the way back from summit? (emphasis on tried)
when she speeds up to 90mph and ignores you that means she isnt interested in the creepy motorcycle guy
- Ginger - 06-29-2006
*shamed*
- Kaan - 06-29-2006
what? she just wanted to see what the street fighter could do
- Ginger - 06-29-2006
Kaan Wrote:what? she just wanted to see what the street fighter could do
and much to her surprise, it didn't fall apart and leave me in the gutter.
- Kaan - 06-30-2006
asteele2 Wrote:and much to my surprise, it didn't fall apart and leave me in the gutter.
fixed that for you
- Ginger - 07-07-2006
Cross posted - my friend Phil originally posted this in 2005, it's exactly what I had in mind:
Phil K. Wrote:The rising sun is best viewed at 70mph. Chicks dig scars. The thrill. The spills. The challenge. Being able to say "yeah, that's my bike". For the post-ride beer. For the post-ride bullshit. For the solitude. For the solace. For the friends. Because it's hard. Because it's not for everyone. For the looks of longing from people in cars. You would always rather be on the bike. For the speed. For the noise. For the chance, for the possibility. For the sound of pucks on the ground. For the whine of a four, the thump of a twin. You got a girlfriend. You got dumped. You got hired. You got fired. Because you don't need A/C. Or the radio. You need the wind. For the fun. For the fear. For the pain. For the first time you tonned it. For all the first times. Because everything else is irrelevant at 150mph. Being able to fill up with a tenner. For the songs you sing into your helmet. For the hands blackened with grease and grime. For the leather. For your heroes. For the people you love. To seeÔÇöthe road, the environment, outside the frame of a car window. For the cigarettes you smoked parked under a highway overpass waiting for the rain to subside. For waking up in DC and going to sleep in the mountains of West Virginia. For the hangouts. Being able to say "I fixed it." Because the bike will always be there for you.
Why do you ride?
- Mike - 07-07-2006
phil = guy with old bimmer, right?
- Ginger - 07-07-2006
You got it
- Apoc - 07-07-2006
I ride because Andrew's sister loves guys who do.
- CaptainHenreh - 07-07-2006
Mike Wrote:phil = guy with old bimmer, right?
Phil = guy who mutilated your GS500, right?
- Ginger - 07-07-2006
CaptainHenreh Wrote:Mike Wrote:phil = guy with old bimmer, right?
Phil = guy who mutilated your GS500, right?
Yep. I'd forgotten about that. Too bad, too, would've made a great Clubman Racer.
- Ross - 07-13-2006
I have read that quote before...but it's still awesome. Very on-point.
- Maengelito - 07-13-2006
if given the choise between riding or dying. i would choose to ride.
- .RJ - 09-12-2006
Another interesting article, along the same theme:
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Quote:Yet, in spite of the danger, or probably because of it, those were some of the best years of my life. Death is life's great intensifier. It is the proximity of death that makes life so much more meaningful. Too, there was something so pure, so noble, about risking one's life for the fleeting and intangible reward of being faster around a racetrack than the next guy. While others were obsessed with the vulgar pursuits of wealth or pleasure, we were ready to sacrifice everything, for nothing. Surely there is no greater idealism than that?
When people who should have known better cautioned me about the dangers of motorcycle racing, I always told them that a fear of death is nothing more than a fear of life in disguise.