MOTORCYCLE Quotes | 25+ Motorcycle Quotes to Inspire Your Next Ride

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Awesome quotes on the thrill of motorcycle riding and the freedom of the road.

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“On my tombstone they will carve, “IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.”

Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.’

Hugh Laurie

“Any day is a good day to leave some miles behind.”

Foster Kinn, Freedom’s Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“My first car was a motorcycle.”

Adam Carolla

“If I could marry my motorcycle, I’d roll her right up to the altar.”

Flip Wilson

“My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.”

Mike Farrell

“Motorcycling might be the ultimate collaboration between man and machine. Attack it. It is the most intimate mode of travel in which to take in both the enormous beauty and the most subtle nuances of nature. Savor it.”

Michael ONeill, Road Work: Images And Insights Of A Modern Day Explorer

“The joy of riding a motorcycle is out of this world. The thrill of riding in the hills and mountains is an opiatic addiction.”

Avijeet Das

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.”

Emo Philips

“Riding is a sacred place.”

Foster Kinn, Freedom’s Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of life.”

Amit Reddy, Who Stole My India?

“Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive”

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“It was only a motorcycle but it felt like a mode of being.”

Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

On a motorcycle, you can’t really think about more than where you are. There’s a freedom that comes with that – from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.”

Laurence Fishburne

“Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.”

Sonny Barger

“You are on your own. You are not protected by two tons of steel, rubber, foam padding and safety glass. Neither are you steering two tons of guided missile toward other cars, people and property. If you are prepared to accept the responsibility of your own actions, then motorcycling can be both safe and thrilling. Riding is an art as well as a craft and no amount of explanation can take the place of experience.”

Theresa Wallach, Easy Motorcycle Riding, 1970

“The center-point of riding a motorcycle, and of life itself, is Freedom.”

Foster Kinn, Freedom’s Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“A motorcycle is an artist’s brush on the canvas of the open road.”

Bill Ray, The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection

“The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… You have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true. ”

Valentino Rossi

“In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.  On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Riding a motorcycle is a tribute, a tip of the helmet as it were, to our rugged ancestors who challenge us through the dust of centuries, proof that we have succumbed to the safety nets of civilization.”

Foster Kinn, Freedom’s Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“God didn’t create metal so that man could make paper clips!”

Harley Davidson

“Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic!”

Robert M. Pirsig

“Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.”

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.”

Evel Knievel

“In a car, you’re just driving. On a motorcycle, you become one with the road.”

George Clooney

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