FUN! That is what it is all about! Good noise, nice scenery, potato potato sound from the HD, or the whine from the Z, and the chance to get out of the mundane workday crap, see something different or at least in a different way, and I am good to go.

Fast on the Z, and mellow on the SG. Does not matter, it is all about the fun!

 

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it's being at one with the elements feeling the minute temp changes, all the smells and sounds. some liken it to a feeling of flying with nothing around you. being free in every sense of the word.

and it is the greatest thing! even better than SEX ! because you know the sex will eventually end but the ride can go on and on.

 

No Therapist Alive could give me, What I getfrom aShort putt, to a long ride on my Heritage. Nothing, Absolutely nothing gives me more enjoyment than being on my Harley. Love to Ride and ALWAYS have. Ride Safe and Often......BearC.Paw......

 

Riding is a part of me. I can use just about any form of transportation where I live, but I choose to ride dang near every day simply because I enjoy it. As for how I ride, I generally ride close to the speed limit, but will occasionally ride faster or slower depending on my mood at the time. My goal while riding is to always get where I'm going while enjoying the journey. Whether the destination is work or a distant watering hole, it doesn't matter. Enjoy the journey.

 

Stress relief. And I love the rumble of a harley motor.

 

It used to mean cruising everywhere with my best friend.

We'd been racing motocross for 20+ years and riding the streets for just as long.

He died when he went off the road and struck a light pole.

I don't ride much on the HD anymore....just not the same without the "RAT"

 

Riding a motorcycle (any make—the Harley part is incidental)for me has always had a Wild West feel to me,kind of likeriding a horse in the back country. You're outside; in the air; on your own, yetmore apart of the world around you; almost in control, but only to the extent of your abilities and by the agreement of the machine; for the moment free to go anywhere and chase any horizon. It's hard to explain, but there's a feeling of completeness I don't get anywhere else.

 

It's the love of the ride, no matter where you are going. It's an attitude, of being free, and being able to enjoy that freedom. For me it is the crusin' and not so much the speed. I ride mostly on back roads, not much traffic, and not much straights. I like the feel of the lean of the bike in a turn. Feeling the wind and the sun. And sometimes the rain and the cold. And as someone put it before me, to enjoy God's creation. Mostly it's an attitude, If I have to keep explainin'it you will never understand.

 

When I started riding int the early 70's it was all about stroked sportsters.....they were the fastest things on the road. Every winter a few of us would make our engines big enough to compete with each other. As the Kawasaki 750(3 cylinder 2 stroke) came out, and then the Honda 750(4 cylinder 4 stroke), then Kawasaki 900's etc.,etc. we would continue to build bigger engines untill even a 113 ci sporty could'nt keep up, and back then.....you could'nt go much bigger than that in an old ironhead. BUT the big thing about riding an HD was TORQUE... and still is. The thrill for ME is being able to pull tree trunks out of the ground---- theres just somethin about feeling G forces when your engine is nearly at an idle, or just feeling the "thump-thump" underneath you when you accelerate that I could never enjoy while on a ricer (my sons both owned them)----- And like you said Anubisss, it's all about cruisin now.... You just can't beat goin down the road at 70 and havin trouble gettin your tach to show a reading.
Regards... Dick

 

The last 7 words of your above post is exactly why
when my wife and I were only married for a year at
18 and 19 years of age we sold everything we owned.
(which wasn't much)We loaded up the chopper with
what we could carry and said when we run out of
money that is where are new home is. For 17 months
and 78,000 miles we rode all over Canada and the U.S.
trying to see most everything (which we did)!

Why? did we do this when we were young instead of
saying we will do it someday" like most everyone else
says and never does?

Because we grew up listening to to many adults that
always said: someday we will do this or that and that
day NEVER CAME EVER' for them, some just lived day
to day 8 to 5 samething day in and day out their whole
life or they were killed by some unforseen thing before
they ever had a chance to find out if they were all talk
and no walk like most everyone else, or if they really
would have done what they talked about.

We decided we would NEVER wait to try to catch any
of our dreams we had growing up, we were going to
go get them while the getting was good because NO
ONE guarantee's anyone of us a tomorrow at all"
Theres is only one day to live and it is today and you
may never live to see the end of this day!

I'm glad I/we were always thinking alike in our lives
because she died in 1989 from cancer! We rode 40 to
100,000 miles a year our whole lives till she died, she
lived all her dreams and she helped make all mine
come true before her death. My life is complete and if
I died this very minute I would have no regrets at all..

My wife now and I still ride 40 to 100,000 miles a year
[b][i][size=2]and we will continue as long as w