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Motorcycle wisdom for today…

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what’s beyond. (- Buzz Aldrin)

(From the IFuckingLoveScience FB Page)

Motorcycle wisdom for today…

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what’s beyond. (- Buzz Aldrin)

(From the IFuckingLoveScience FB Page)

The Difference Between an Engine and a Motor

The first installment of mini mechanical lessons and tales of terminology.

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“The difference in a motor and an engine: A motor is converting electric energy into mechanical energy. A engine is converting energy into mechanical energy.”

- From MotoFactory PDX

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine, circa 1600’s
She’s meanness set to music and the bitch is born to run!
Mechanic, Mad Max
Even when you’re on a group ride, it’s still just you and the bike on the road. Even two up you’re the only one inside your helmet. Yet, we’re all (kinda) one big family.

Robert Fullum, friend of mine and Instructor for Team Oregon

Makes you wonder if the solitude is part of what brings us together? Like lone wolves crossing paths in the forest. 

Born to ride, forced to work.
Aint that the truth.

Born to ride, forced to work.

Aint that the truth.

You know you’re a biker when you start recognizing your friends by the sound of their exhausts.
True story.
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

(Jack Kerouac)

Today is my birthday! A friend of mine sent this to me and I felt like it was appropriate to share. Everyone go get on your bikes and twist the throttle for me!

Why isn’t there a single company out there that sells a complete line of considered protective gear for men and women?

Instead we get a hodge-podge of mismatched stuff thats designed to look good on a hanger in Cycle Gear or whatever.

Sean Smith, motorcyclist and freelance journalist in Los Angeles
“The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.” - Hunster S. Thompson
(I know I just posted this quote earlier but after I did, I decided to make this graphic. Thought I would share!) 

“The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.” - Hunster S. Thompson

(I know I just posted this quote earlier but after I did, I decided to make this graphic. Thought I would share!) 

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.
Explore the balance between control and risk.

Explore the balance between control and risk.

Motorcycle wisdom for today. 

Every man dies, not every man truly lives. 

Motorcycle wisdom for today. 

Every man dies, not every man truly lives. 

Anything is possible- it’s a frickin’ motorcycle!
Justin Sullivan, 2012
Wisdom from Deus- 

Calm seas never made a good sailor.

Wisdom from Deus

Calm seas never made a good sailor.