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| | | Moppa | | Set |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 05/08/2014 | | Posts | : | 1 | | Location | : | Australia |
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| | Posted : 05 Aug 2014 - 06:49 Post title : Why do you ride a motorcycle | | | Motorcycle Envy
I saw a patch the other day that read "Only a biker understands why a dog loves hanging its head outside the window of a moving car" and I'm sure that if you read this blog you are one. As "winter is coming" (Do you like that? I stole that from Game of Thrones) It's likely you are starting to suffer from PMS (Parked Motorcycle Syndrome) you go to the garage just to clean your bike and start it "to charge the battery". You listen to the engine sound, and feel energetic about planning trips for warmer sunnier days well that's, if like me you live in the southern states. I suppose it could be worse I could live in Melbourne or Tassie!
Anyway back to the point, that patch started me thinking about how I often find myself trying to explain to people what I enjoy about motorcycle riding and as I get older, the question becomes more frequent. The sad fact is (and this is probably a reflection on me) the first answer that pops into my head is "if you have to ask, you will never understand" (which by the way I saw on another patch some years back) naturally I don't actually say what I'm thinking but the urge is there... so the question that has haunted me; is how best to explain the unexplainable. I have tried analogies like "it's the same feeling a surfer gets when he watches the sun rise on a windswept perfect wave".
Or a bush walker gets when he finds himself alone and one with nature, or a hang glider gets when he looks sideways and sees an eagle souring on the thermals beside him or a diver gets when a great white shark swims past (well that's if he hasn't filled his wet suit with... well you get the picture) or a solo sailor under sail with hundreds of dolphins keeping him company on an empty ocean.
I am sure you can see the dilemma!
I suppose I can talk about the feeling of having control with over 1600 ccs of power and a thin strip of rubber between you and the road, or the feeling of actually participating in the scenery, rather than just watching it through a windscreen, or the people you meet and the towns you visit and friends made just because you have a really nice bike and your seen as different in some way. The problem here is that you and I both know that's it doesn't have anything to do with the destination.
If you are like me, destination is not a purpose, but direction is, you probably take "random" trips through the country side and visit out-of-the-way towns with names like Dungog, Gerringong, Gunnedah, or Mudgee; whilst looking for that perfect road. There is nothing like riding along mountain roads with an empty mind away from the mundane day-to-day chores. You get that life is different from anything that your parents or society has told you, freedom, happiness, and if you are lucky enough you meet the "biker's God" – that inner discovery process where you re-define yourself and what you want to do with your life.... Sorry I was rambling and lost in my day dream.
Nevertheless I am sure you get my point and what is the point? I will leave you with this "if they have to ask, they won't understand" now where did I put that old Steppenwolf album... "Get your motor running and head out on the highway looking for adventure and whatever comes our way"...
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| | | Irish | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 28/10/2013 | | Posts | : | 854 | | Location | : | New England, NSW, Australia |
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| | Posted : 05 Aug 2014 - 08:25 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Moppa) | | | The safety features. that's what attracts me to motorcycling
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| | | Smitty | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 01/10/2012 | | Posts | : | 996 | | Location | : | Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia |
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| | Posted : 05 Aug 2014 - 08:43 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Moppa) | | | Us New South Welshmen don't park our bikes for winter. We just rode to Kandos last weekend where it was well below zero.
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You must be from SA.........
Those punctuation marks make that long winded statement appear to be cut and pasted from other source 
Actually.... do you ride a Red Haze coloured Bird 
| Cheers Smitty 
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| | | Linkdog | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 10/02/2011 | | Posts | : | 2,923 | | Location | : | Groveland, FL., United States |
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| | Posted : 05 Aug 2014 - 13:41 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Smitty) | | | Snotty wrote, " Do you ride a red haze coloured bird? " Are you thinking War Hero?
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| | | MotorMac | | Jupiter | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 29/08/2010 | | Posts | : | 1,790 | | Location | : | Nor Cal, United States |
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| | Posted : 05 Aug 2014 - 16:16 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Linkdog) | | | It's a "death wish." That's what I was told, in no uncertain terms, when I was about 17.
I have a patch that sez, "If God is your copilot, better switch seats."
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| | | PapaSmurfMC | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 03/10/2013 | | Posts | : | 871 | | Location | : | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| | Posted : 06 Aug 2014 - 01:02 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Moppa) | | | Moppa wrote:
... "it's the same feeling a surfer gets when he watches the sun rise on a windswept perfect wave".
Or a bush walker gets when he finds himself alone and one with nature, or a hang glider gets when he looks sideways and sees an eagle souring on the thermals beside him or a diver gets when a great white shark swims past (well that's if he hasn't filled his wet suit with... well you get the picture) or a solo sailor under sail with hundreds of dolphins keeping him company on an empty ocean.... |
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Dude, you have feelings.  Come back when you get that fixed.
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| | | MotorMac | | Jupiter | | | | Reg. Date | : | 29/08/2010 | | Posts | : | 1,790 | | Location | : | Nor Cal, United States |
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| | Posted : 06 Aug 2014 - 02:28 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: PapaSmurfMC) | | | Wow, tough crowd here.....
Hey, what's a "bush walker?" You mean like the ones down on Melrose?
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| | | Leethal | | Zeus | | | | Reg. Date | : | 24/01/2011 | | Posts | : | 6,407 | | Location | : | Australia |
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| | Posted : 06 Aug 2014 - 05:53 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Smitty) | | |
Smitty wrote:
Us New South Welshmen don't park our bikes for winter. We just rode to Kandos last weekend where it was well below zero.
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You must be from SA.........
Those punctuation marks make that long winded statement appear to be cut and pasted from other source
Actually.... do you ride a Red Haze coloured Bird |
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Ah Smitty, your radar is working well, look what I found:-
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| | | Smitty | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 01/10/2012 | | Posts | : | 996 | | Location | : | Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia |
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| | Posted : 06 Aug 2014 - 07:20 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Leethal) | | |
Leethal wrote:
Smitty wrote:
Us New South Welshmen don't park our bikes for winter. We just rode to Kandos last weekend where it was well below zero.
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You must be from SA.........
Those punctuation marks make that long winded statement appear to be cut and pasted from other source
Actually.... do you ride a Red Haze coloured Bird |
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Ah Smitty, your radar is working well, look what I found:-
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hahahaha....... Netrider, now that explains a lot
| Cheers Smitty
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| | | GerPa | | Jupiter | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 10/12/2011 | | Posts | : | 1,919 | | Location | : | Mackay, Central Queensland, Australia |
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| | Posted : 06 Aug 2014 - 09:47 Post title : Re: Why do you ride a motorcycle (Re: Leethal) | | | Leethal wrote:
Smitty wrote:
Us New South Welshmen don't park our bikes for winter. We just rode to Kandos last weekend where it was well below zero.
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You must be from SA.........
Those punctuation marks make that long winded statement appear to be cut and pasted from other source
Actually.... do you ride a Red Haze coloured Bird |
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Ah Smitty, your radar is working well, look what I found:-
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Orgh Fuck  Looks like he is back and the medication didnt work.
You Crow Eaters better be carefull, He might turn up to Ya Flocking next year  Then what Ya gunna do dont forget Michael comes from Adelaide. 
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| | Post edited by GerPa on 06 Aug 2014 - 09:51 |
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