Biker Wisdom

[totalmotorcycle]

Biker Wisdom


• Midnight bugs taste best.
• Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
• You'll get farther down the road if you learn to use more than two fingers on the front brake.
• It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed.
• The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
• Never be afraid to slow down.
• Only Bikers understand why dogs love to stick their heads out car windows.
• Never ask a biker for directions if you're in a hurry to get there.
• Don't ride so late into the night that you sleep through thesunrise.
• Mountain Dew and peanut M&M's are as important as gasoline.
• Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of gas before you can think straight.
• Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you'll ride alone.
• Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town.
• Never mistake Horsepower for staying power.
• A good rider has balance, judgment, and good timing. So does a good lover.
• A cold hamburger can be reheated quite nicely by strapping it to an exhaust pipe and riding forty miles.
• Never do less then Forty miles before breakfast.
• If you don't ride in the rain-you don't ride.
• A bike on the road is worth 2 in the shop.
• Young riders pick a destination and go... Old riders pick a direction and go.
• A good wrench will let you watch without charging you for it.
• Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
• Always back your scoot into the curb-and sit where you can see it.
• Work to ride-Ride to work.
• Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.
• Two lane blacktop isn't a highway-it's an attitude.
• When you look down the road, it seems to never end-but you better believe it does.
• Winter is Natures way of telling you to polish.
• A motorcycle can't sing on the streets of a city.
• Keep your bike in good repair: Motorcycle boots are NOT comfortable for walking.
• People are like Motorcycles: each is customized a bit differently.
• If the bike ain't braking properly, you don't start by rebuilding the engine.
• Remember to pay as much attention to your partner as you do your carburetor.
• Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes.
• Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.
• Good coffee should be indistinguishable from 50 weight motor oil.
• The best alarm clock is sunshine on Chrome.
• Learn to do counterintuitive things that may someday save your butt.
• The twisties- not the superslabs- separate the bikers from the squids.
• When you're riding lead--don't spit.
• If you really want to know what's going on, watch what's happening at least 5 cars ahead.
• Don't make a reputation you'll have to live down or run away from later.
• A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere to get you when you're broken down.
• Catchin' a June bug (or yellowjacket in your goggles or honeybee down your shirt) @ 70 mph can double your vocabulary.
• There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
• Practice wrenching on your own bike.
• Owning 2 bikes is useful because at least one can be raided for parts at any given time.
• You'll know she loves you if she offers to let you ride her bike. Don't do it and she'll love you even more.
• Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.
• Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit.
• Maintenance is as much art as it is science.
• A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of gasoline.
• If the countryside seems boring, stop, get off your bike, and go sit in the ditch long enough to appreciate what was here before the asphalt came.
• If you ride like there's no tomorrow-there won't be.
• Gray-haired bikers don't get that way from pure luck.
• The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.
• You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.
• No matter what you ride, it's all the same wind.
• The only Zen you find riding is the Zen you brought with you.

Thanks to the Southern Cruisers of Houston (www.houstonscrc.org/)

Mike.

[Keyoke]

fantastic.

[oldnslo]

Great stuff.

[keysman]

Ponderous man, really ponderous.

[poppygene]

Priceless! Some really sage counsel there.

[Gadjet]

You forgot:

There are old riders, there are drunk riders. There are no old drunk riders

Home is where your bike sits still long enough to leave a few drops of oil on the ground

Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory

[oldnslo]

When riding out in the country and you stop to relieve yourself....Never pee on an electric fence.......

[Mag7C]

...and don't forget to take off your riding gloves before attempting.

[mogster]

Thought this is worth reading again (or for the first time for us newcomers)

[sapaul]

Here is some wisdom

When you get to that place when all you have to prove is that you can get from A to B safely and "fudge" what anyone else thinks

that's when you can say you are a Biker true to yourself

(Stranger 2011)