Motorcycle wisdom of the road

[hardy541]

• Midnight bugs taste best.
• Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
• Home is where your bike sits still long enough to leave a few drops of oil on the ground.
• The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
• Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.
• Never mistake horsepower for staying power.
• If you don't ride in the rain - you don't ride.
• A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
• Young riders pick a destination and go. . . Old riders pick a direction and go.
• A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
• Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
• Winter is Nature's way of telling you to polish your bike.
• Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.
• The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome.
• A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2 am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere.
• There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
• Practice wrenching on your own bike.
• Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit
• Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
• If you ride like there's no tomorrow - there won't be.
• Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck
• There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.
• No matter what marquee you ride, it's all the same wind.
• Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

[FastDoc]

Great stuff. All pretty true!

[Weldangrind]

If a bike on the road is worth two in the shed, then I gotta get my act together. Thanks for the laugh.

[FastDoc]

Practice wrenching on your own bike.

You don't need to tell that to a Chinarider! :roll:

[BillR]

Very well thought out. I enjoyed this one.

Originally Posted by hardy541

• The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
• If you don't ride in the rain - you don't ride.

My 2 favorites. There's nothing like pulling into the garage just as the drops start hitting the faceshield ('course it's usually about 2/3 of the way home :P )

Originally Posted by hardy541

• There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.

I've never understood this and it's everywhere.
Bicycling magazine once sat at a popular trailhead and did a survey: Most of the riders drove a lot farther than the length of the trail "to get some exercise."
Ride your bike...
Bill

[SpudRider]

Thanks for posting another great list, Hardy!

Spud

[davidsonsgccc]

cool list. its all the same wind i like that.