TMW Community Topic: Why I Ride

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What is the main reason you ride?

Freedom
18
27%
Excitement
11
17%
Affordability
3
5%
Adventure
5
8%
Parades/Group Riding
0
No votes
Comraderie
1
2%
Sense of Accomplishment
3
5%
Just for fun
25
38%
 
Total votes: 66
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totalmotorcycle
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TMW Community Topic: Why I Ride

#1 Unread post by totalmotorcycle »

We all ride for different reasons and we got into riding differently. There are a lot of untold stories in our community about how and why we do what we do.

Thus, I would like to start up a thead here about it and invite all our members to contribute their story. :D


Why do you ride? What do you like it? What got you started into it? What bike(s) did you ride that you just did it for you?

Have fun with it and enjoy! Feel free to add photos.

Mike
Last edited by totalmotorcycle on Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:55 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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#2 Unread post by BuzZz »

Dude, you missed the most important one.

Fun. :mrgreen:


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No Witnesses.... :shifty:
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#3 Unread post by ceemes »

You forgot another.....All of the above.....had to opt the fun option instead.
Always ask why.

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#4 Unread post by SCgurl »

How about "To drive my mother crazy?"

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#5 Unread post by sapaul »

If you clip a birds wings, you not only take away the ability to fly, but you also destroy a part of it's soul

Take away my bike .......................................
I spent my therapy money an a K1200S
The therapy worked, I got a GS now
A touch of insanity crept back in the shape of an R1200R
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#6 Unread post by dr_bar »

ceemes wrote:You forgot another.....All of the above.....had to opt the fun option instead.

+1
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"Four wheels move the body.
Two wheels move the soul!"
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#7 Unread post by blues2cruise »

I voted for sense of accomplishment but I'd also like to add adventure to my vote.
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#8 Unread post by mswarrior »

Where was the "All The Above" selection? :)
Many say live to ride, I say ride is to live.
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#9 Unread post by Johnj »

Riding makes me feel alive.
People say I'm stupid and apathetic. I don't know what that means, and I don't care.
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#10 Unread post by MZ33 »

When I want to feel like I've accomplished something, I consult my humongous list, pick the one that is closest to appealing, and go do it (unless or until I get distracted by something else. :oops: )

When I want to escape that list, well, that bike is right over there, waiting for me.

Right now, decluttering & reorganizing the home office would be a real accomplishment. :ohmy:
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