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Why do you ride?
Road Warrior
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 1,889
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From: Mississippi
Because I can't drive...Seriously I have been riding for about 41 years...I commute daily to work...and ride every other chance I get...Every time I have to use the car or the truck...I have to learn to drive again.
Road Captain
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 626
Likes: 79
I have always like bikes/cars/trucks.
At 16 (back in 1976) you could get a motorcycle permit and ride by yourself without a licensed driver with you. It actually gave me freedom 6 months earlier than I could have had with a car/truck. It didn't take long for me to realize how much fun it is/was! I am 50 now and have had a bike for all the time in between except for 8 months. I live in Mass and have ridden year round more years than I have not.
In that time I have ridden at least 500,000 miles and ridden to 37 states. I can't imagine a life where riding a motorcycle wasn't a part of it, it is a part of me.
At 16 (back in 1976) you could get a motorcycle permit and ride by yourself without a licensed driver with you. It actually gave me freedom 6 months earlier than I could have had with a car/truck. It didn't take long for me to realize how much fun it is/was! I am 50 now and have had a bike for all the time in between except for 8 months. I live in Mass and have ridden year round more years than I have not.
In that time I have ridden at least 500,000 miles and ridden to 37 states. I can't imagine a life where riding a motorcycle wasn't a part of it, it is a part of me.
Road Captain
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 601
Likes: 0
From: Florida
I think its kinda like riding a horse in the old west, Just you, your bike and your thoughts. the worlds problems don't seem quite as bad
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Joined: Sep 2011
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From: Renton
The ability to forget about the golden handcuffs to a shitty job, women, and other crap going on.
It's fun to ponder the idea of not being tied down to anything and only know where you are going. Not where you have to return.
It's fun to ponder the idea of not being tied down to anything and only know where you are going. Not where you have to return.