motorcycles?how long - nklr

[Peter Berghs]

Mark wrote:

> SAAB's slogan was "Find your own road"; the KLR's should be "Make > your own road". > Mark > B2 > A2 >

Make your own road...that's great, we should make that the K.O.R.G. motto! Peter B A15

[Peter Berghs]

Good question.... I just got back into motorcycles after a 15 year hiatus and I regret all the time I've missed. I love learning the technical stuff, how to do it better, faster, smoother. I like the closeness to nature that riding provides, the smells, the heat, the cold, the rain, its different every time I get out there. I'm also a wanna-be mechanic...I really miss the tinkering I did when I was growing up on the farm, workin on my bike is relaxing because I'm doing it for myself and no-one else. And finally, it brings back a lot of happy memories about blasting throught the fields and woods on the homestead. I used to ride for hours and not really go anywhere but I was free! Peter B A15 My ticket to simple adventure. Toby 'Slide' Lampson wrote:

> > Everyone- > So you've been into motorcycling for a day, or a month, > a year, or for years......you may lean toward dirt or street- > but I'm curios........ > Why motorcycling? What is it about the sport that > 'does it' for you......or keeps you here? > Is it in the pride of ownership?....the ride?.....or > perhaps the maintenance? > I'm just curios what the answer is for others........ > > Slide

[InWoods13@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/28/00 3:17:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, jazranch@... writes: << Nope. I'm not doing a paper. I was thinking though, that we may all have a common-factor or two other than the bike itself....and it appears so here. Some say its the practicality of the bike and its manuevering.... Others mention a physical aspects like 'the wind' or 'bouncing', Perhaps it has similarities to a pilots view.. Some mention mental qualities............like it being a 'stabilizing factor', 'open', 'free'........perhaps a nomadic 'promise', or a 'method of stress relief'............ and 'relaxation'. >> Started out as being the dream career. Now it's the escape/challenge/freedom. Nothing in the world like that feeling of flying, whether it's over a tabletop, or thru a turn. It's all good. Scott A14 "thunderdog"

[Michael Kovaliv]

Why I like riding? I like the way it feels to ride, the movement and control, the freedom and the involvement in the travel, in contrast to sitting and almost being driven. I like that the bike says to me "let's go somewhere" as apposed to "you have to go somewhere". I like the feeling that it is me that is traveling, that I move through the environment. I think if I could ride one of those "speed cruiser" type things they used in the forest in I think it was Return of the Jedi I would be into that in a big way as well. Mike A12

[Mark]

At 4:42 PM -0700 11/28/00, Bogdan Swider wrote:

>What hooked me and keeps me addicted is the way motorcycling at speed >connects me with my surrounding. That's why I like technical riding only in >small doses...

Ya, but there's a better chance of REALLY connecting with your surroundings when you go technical! Mark B2 A2

[Russell Scott]

When I was an itty bitty baby my mama used to rock me in the cradle. Its in my roots. Besides, when I was three I broke my leg riding my tricycle. I guess I enjoyed that too. Russel'r <- motorcycle riding is truly rock'n and roll'n

[Karl Raupp]

> Why motorcycling?

Ummm, why not motorcycling? And why the hell doesn't everyone do it? Karl

[stevens@vanion.com]

--- In DSN_klr650@egroups.com, Peter Berghs wrote:

> Mark wrote: > > > SAAB's slogan was "Find your own road"; the KLR's should be "Make > > your own road". > > Mark > > B2 > > A2 > > > Make your own road...that's great, we should make that the K.O.R.G. > motto! > > Peter B > A15

Could tweak it a little to "Go Your Own Way" then we'd have a theme song, using the Fleetwood Mac song. "Swede"

[racing43rd@aol.com]

I've been riding now for 35 years and I think in the beginning (1965) it was the thrill of the ride plus the attention I and the bike tended to draw. But as time and miles have gone by the thrill has remained but my enjoyment of the time as I ride has increased a hundredfold. As I ride all the stupid petty problems that plague me slide away and disolve in the wind. I am never so at peace as when I ride. I am as completely relaxed as I ever become when I ride. My sense of everything increases. Sights, sounds, smells, even the "texture" of the air becomes real. I once tried to explain to a non rider that no matter how badly my day may be going if I have rdden that day for at least 90 minutes everything will be fine, and because of that I can handle just about anything that gets thrown my way. I could go on and on but I think anyone who has ridden a significant amount of miles knows what I ! mean. Ed Gaffney Windsor Ohio

[Dan Paulsen]

You meet some of the greatest people while motorcycling. Some of them are riding too. Dan Paulsen Graham WA