Motorcycle Quotes

- Enkele uitspraken omtrent motorrijders en motorijden waar ik me wel kan in thuis vinden...

- 200mph, no hands. Damn that’d be cool... right up to the part where you die. (A. Duthie)

- 98% of all Harleys ever sold are still on the road. The other 2% made it home.

- A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.

- A cold hamburger can be reheated quite nicely by strapping it to an exhaust pipe and riding forty miles.

- A friend is someone who’ll get out of bed at 2 am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere to get you when you’re broken down.

- A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of fuel.

- A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.

- A good rider has balance, judgment, and good timing. So does a good lover.

- A motorcycle can’t sing on the streets of a city.

- Always back your bike into the curb, and sit where you can see it.

- Always replace the cheapest parts first.

- Beware the rider who says the bike never breaks down.

- Bikes don’t leak oil, they mark their territory.

- Bikes parked out front mean good chicken-fried steak inside.

- Burn rubber, not your soul, baby. (Biker Boyz)

- Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. – Stirling Moss

- Careless torque costs lives.

- Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary.

- Don't argue with an 18 wheeler.

- Don't lead the pack if you don't know where you're going.

- Don't make a reputation you'll have to live down or run away from later.

- Don't ride so late into the night that you sleep through the sunrise.

- Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't.

- Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death... (Hunter Thompson)

- Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.

- God didn't create metal so that man could make paper clips!

- Gray-haired riders don’t get that way from pure luck.

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

- I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

- I want to leave this world the same way I came into it: Screaming and covered in blood.

- I'd rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle.

- If she changes her oil more than she changes her mind follow her.

- If the bike isn’t braking properly, you don’t start by rebuilding the engine.

- 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 the person in the next lane at the stoplight rolls up the window and locks the door, support their view of life by snarling at them.

- If you can’t get it going with bungee cords and electrician’s tape, it’s serious.

- If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

- If you really want to know what's going on, watch what's happening at least five cars ahead.

- If you ride like there’s no tomorrow, there won’t be.

- If you ride like lightning, you gonna crash like thunder

- If you think you don't need a helmet, you probably don't.

- If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. (Larry McMurtry)

- If you want to complain about the pace being set by the road captain, you better be prepared to lead the group yourself.

- If you want to get somewhere before sundown, you can't stop at every tavern.

- It didn’t look that far on the map.

- It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. (Ursula K. LeGuin)

- It takes both pistons and cylinders to make a bike run. One is not more important than the other.

- It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed.

- It’s a world with 20,000 television channels...get as far away from it as you can.

- It’s not what you ride, it’s your attitude that it counts.

- Keep the paint up, and the rubber down!

- Keep thy eye on the tach and thine ears on the engine lest thy whirlybits seek communion with the sun.

- Keep your bike in good repair: Motorcycle boots are NOT comfortable for walking.

- Learn to do counterintuitive things that may someday save your butt.

- Learning to ride at 41 is better than never learning to ride at all!

- Life is too short for traffic. (Dan Bellack)

- Life may begin at 30, but it doesn’t get real interesting until about 150.

- Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! 

- What a Ride! (Hunter S. Thompson)

- Maintenance is as much art as it is science.

- Middle age starts when you have been warned to slow down, not by a motorcycle cop, but by your doctor.

- Midnight bugs taste best.

- Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.

- NEVER argue with a woman holding a torque wrench.

- Never be afraid to slow down.

- Never do less than forty miles before breakfast.

- Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town.

- Never mistake horsepower for staying power.

- Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly.

- Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existence.

- No matter what marque you ride, it's all the same wind.

- Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

- Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. (Mac McCleary)

- Patience is the ability to keep your motor idling.

- People are like Motorcycles: each is customized a bit differently.

- People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

- Practice wrenching on your own bike.

- Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. (Jim Samuels)

- Remember the time when sex was safe and motorcycles where dangerous.

- Remember to pay as much attention to your partner as you do your carburetor.

- Respect the person who has seen the dark side of motorcycling and lived.

- Ride as if your life depended on it!

- Ride, eat, sleep...repeat.

- Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you’ll ride alone.

- Routine maintenance should never be neglected.

- Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.

- Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.

- Sleep with one arm through the spokes and keep your pants on.

- Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of fuel before you can think straight.

- Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes.

- Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.

- that's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. (Robert M. Pirsig)

- The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome.

- The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.

- The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle. (Lucinda Williams)

- The twisties, not the superslabs, separate the riders from the squids.

- There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.

- There are those who have crashed and there is those that will crash.

- There is nothing more obscene than a new bike on a trailer.

- Thin leather looks good in the bar, but it won’t save your butt from “road rash” if you go down.

- Warning: objects seen in mirror are disappearing rapidly

- Well-trained reflexes are better than luck.

- What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor. (David Perry)

- Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

- When you look down the road, it seems to never end, but you better believe it does.

- When you're riding lead don't spit.

- Winter is Nature's way of telling you to polish.

- Work to ride and ride to work.

- You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.

- You don’t stop riding because you’re getting old, but you get old when you stop riding.

- You start the game with a full pot o’ luck and an empty pot o’ experience. The object is to fill the pot of experience before you empty the pot of luck.

- You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike.

- Young riders pick a destination and go... Old riders pick a direction and go.