Why do we ride
Road Master
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,002
Likes: 190
From: Penticton BC Canada
So, why do I ride? I dunno...
I've gotten bored with riding at times and thought I could quit.
I've even sold my bikes and got rid of my bike stuff. I always end up buying another one.
I've given up airplanes and really never looked back, I gave up boating and water skiing and have so far not looked back.
Probably the biggest reason I ride is that my wife still loves to ride on the back. If I got rid of the Road king and just kept the Honda Pacific Coast, I doubt we would ride much together anymore.
Personally, I like both bikes, each for what it is. She likes (what she calls her bike) the noisy black and chrome bike and turns her nose up at the (my) quiet, white Tupperware bike.
Its one of the few things we still do together, so in a way riding helps keep our relationship healthy.
I've gotten bored with riding at times and thought I could quit.
I've even sold my bikes and got rid of my bike stuff. I always end up buying another one.
I've given up airplanes and really never looked back, I gave up boating and water skiing and have so far not looked back.
Probably the biggest reason I ride is that my wife still loves to ride on the back. If I got rid of the Road king and just kept the Honda Pacific Coast, I doubt we would ride much together anymore.
Personally, I like both bikes, each for what it is. She likes (what she calls her bike) the noisy black and chrome bike and turns her nose up at the (my) quiet, white Tupperware bike.
Its one of the few things we still do together, so in a way riding helps keep our relationship healthy.
Road Master
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,002
Likes: 190
From: Penticton BC Canada
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From: Puget Sound, WA.
In a lot of ways its like a drug that is highly addictive. I have never been addicted to drugs or drink but from what I read and see about drug addicts, myself and many people I know are bike addicts The pusher usually talks you into that first ride and you get the biggest rush you have ever felt, for many of us that first ride was all it took and we are bike junkies for life. We spend the rest of our life chasing that high that only a bike gives us. We find every excuse to indulge into riding our drug of choice. For many of us much of our disposable $$ go to feed our addiction. If the weather is nasty for several days we go through withdrawals and become irritable and a pain in the *** to our spouse etc... Often to the point that they become enablers and tell us please go get that fix (ride). The addiction is often so bad that at work all we can think about is getting that fix (ride).
I guess the first step is admitting it, and I want to face the truth...........
Hi, I am Tim and I am addicted to riding bikes
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Sonny Barger
August 19 at 4:58pm ˇ
What attracted me to riding motorcycles in the first
place was that nothing else so seamlessly combines machinery
with the human body than riding a motorcycle.
Every so often I need to remind myself about how the
synergy of the brain and the body relates to the mechanical...
world. William Burroughs referred to the body as a
“soft machine.” It’s the highest piece of technology we’ve
got. Take care of it, and use it, and most of all listen to it.
Sonny
August 19 at 4:58pm ˇ
What attracted me to riding motorcycles in the first
place was that nothing else so seamlessly combines machinery
with the human body than riding a motorcycle.
Every so often I need to remind myself about how the
synergy of the brain and the body relates to the mechanical...
world. William Burroughs referred to the body as a
“soft machine.” It’s the highest piece of technology we’ve
got. Take care of it, and use it, and most of all listen to it.
Sonny