How many time have you been asked why you ride? Well for me this sums it up!

[radismukes]

How many time have you been asked why you ride? Well for me this sums it up!



Never give up Ride on Brothers and Sisters!

 

[Papa Zook]

Good post Robert. If you have to ask why, you wouldn't understand.

 

[Jake70]

To me I would say that if you have to ask that question then that person has obviously never rode a motorcycle and pulled a bug out from between their teeth.

 

[ol' school]

Awesome post Robert!

 

[Bill J. from Austin]

Uh... it's the freedom, man!

I am an avid reader and bibliophile, and over the years I've collected hundreds of books on motorcycles: histories of motorcycling and of various marques, biographies and memoirs of riders and racers and pioneers, encyclopedias, technical manuals, adventure sagas, true crime, humor, fiction, even a couple volumes of poetry!

Of all the motorcycle books I've read thus far (I still have a massive 'to read' pile awaiting my attention) Melissa Holbrook Pierson's The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles has the best explanation I've found for why we ride. It's a great read, and her other books are pretty good, too.

Since I'm here, I'll recommend another great book. Matthew Crawford was a motorcycle mechanic and electrician, just like me, and his book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work has some great insights into riding, wrenching, and the importance of skilled labor in our world. I've begun reading another of his books, called Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road, and so far it's been pretty good, too.

 

[Burnerboy]

AS I sit here at 6;00AM, with a heater blasting full force, on my body, and a foot and half snow (that fell yesterday) and temps in the lower teens 18* degrees

and my poor TRIKE in my garage, Up on jacks, covered over with a blanket, and a battery maintainer plugg'd in...........:badmood: I now know why I ride, and miss it more than ever!!

Come on April 1st..

At least I still have my snow skies!!!

Ronnie

1/19/24

 

[rhino 2]

I question i get asked a lot in Winter is;....Aren't you cold on that thing??

My comeback with a smile is ..No not yet..............

And Not that i would Amit that i was cold to anyone anyway.......

 

[Sidecarbill]

I've never been asked why I ride. But if asked asked anything about my bike that's been asked a million times before, I point to my helmet, my ears, point my palms up and shake my head. Seems to answer most of their questions.

 

[Phu Cat]

Not that i would Amit that i was cold to anyone anyway.

Had been cold a LOT in my early riding days, especially when you have frost on your 'stash. Then I bought a heated vest. Keeping your core warm goes a very long way in keeping our hands and feet warm too.

 

[radismukes]

How many time have you been asked why you ride? Well for me this sums it up!



Never give up Ride on Brothers and Sisters!

BUMP

 

[Swede]

Since I'm new here I'll give it a shot.
I haven't put a lot of smiles like most of you. BUT I have loved every one of them. My dream trip was to ride to Alaska. When I retired I did that with my son. I figured that would satisfy my need to ride. I have gone through 7 bikes. After I had a couple heart attacks and had triple bypass my son said "trike your goldwing and we will go back to Alaska". Well, I triked it but we never made the trip. Had complications and never made the trip. Now we make a couple short trips each year. That pretty well takes care of the "need".

That brings us up to today. Had a garage fire and lost the car and 3 bikes one being the Goldwing trike.

At 83 you would think that would be the end. Don't know where the end is but I have a new Freewheeler. I think this will be the last one.
Sorry for rambling.

 

[Gorilla]

Since I'm new here I'll give it a shot.
I haven't put a lot of smiles like most of you. BUT I have loved every one of them. My dream trip was to ride to Alaska. When I retired I did that with my son. I figured that would satisfy my need to ride. I have gone through 7 bikes. After I had a couple heart attacks and had triple bypass my son said "trike your goldwing and we will go back to Alaska". Well, I triked it but we never made the trip. Had complications and never made the trip. Now we make a couple short trips each year. That pretty well takes care of the "need".

That brings us up to today. Had a garage fire and lost the car and 3 bikes one being the Goldwing trike.
At 83 you would think that would be the end. Don't know where the end is but I have a new Freewheeler. I think this will be the last one.
Sorry for rambling.

Swede if you have the need or the scratch then go for it. Ride safe a that freewheeler.

 

[Rogue1]

That was a great flick. I don't think I'd be off the mark if I was to say I would bet MOST of us have had at least one of the bikes pictured in that film.

 

[ISP-FL]

For me it has always been sort of a therapy. When I got home from VN one of the first things I did was go out and buy a used Yamaha 360 dirt bike. I was assigned to W.S.M.R. in New Mexico. I ran that thing all around base and whenever I was off I was out in the desert on it. Been riding motorcycles and the 52 years since that time. When I ride my mind is on the ride and what is around me. I don't think about what else may be going on in my life or anything else, it is just about the motorcycle and me.

 

[Swede]

For me it has always been sort of a therapy. When I got home from VN one of the first things I did was go out and buy a used Yamaha 360 dirt bike. I was assigned to W.S.M.R. in New Mexico. I ran that thing all around base and whenever I was off I was out in the desert on it. Been riding motorcycles and the 52 years since that time. When I ride my mind is on the ride and what is around me. I don't think about what else may be going on in my life or anything else, it is just about the motorcycle and me.

You said it better than I did.

 

[radismukes]

Since I'm new here I'll give it a shot.
I haven't put a lot of smiles like most of you. BUT I have loved every one of them. My dream trip was to ride to Alaska. When I retired I did that with my son. I figured that would satisfy my need to ride. I have gone through 7 bikes. After I had a couple heart attacks and had triple bypass my son said "trike your goldwing and we will go back to Alaska". Well, I triked it but we never made the trip. Had complications and never made the trip. Now we make a couple short trips each year. That pretty well takes care of the "need".

That brings us up to today. Had a garage fire and lost the car and 3 bikes one being the Goldwing trike.

At 83 you would think that would be the end. Don't know where the end is but I have a new Freewheeler. I think this will be the last one.
Sorry for rambling.

For me It’s not about the length. It’s for the love of the wind in your face, the best way in to see world around us. The love of God’s creation. May you be blessed with many more rides in your life.