“ I should have a gun. And you think I can provide it? Ask your biker gang buddies. They prefer the term ‘motorcycle club.’ I’m sure they do. Kelley Armstrong
“ Indeed ... but no sand this time, so the lever goes up into fourth, and now there's no sound except wind. Screwit all the way over, reach through the handlebars to raise the headlight beam, the needle… Hunter S. Thompson
“ They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own. Jess "Chief" Brynjulson
“ It should be inserted here parenthetically that there's a school of mechanical thought which says I shouldn't getting into a complex assembly I don't know anything about. I should have training or le… Robert M. Pirsig
“ That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind [...] I've noticed that people who have never worked wi… Robert M. Pirsig
“ Finally, if you're as exasperated as I am by the parts problem and have some money to invest, you can take up the really fascinating hobby of machining your own parts. [...] With the welding equipment… Robert M. Pirsig
“ There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside unde… Robert M. Pirsig
“ When cleaning I do it the way people go to church—not so much to discover anything new, although I'm alert for new things, but mainly to reacquaint myself with the familiar. It's nice to go over famil… Robert M. Pirsig
“ I talked yesterday about caring, I care about these moldy old riding gloves. I smile at them flying through the breeze beside me because they have been there for so many years and are so old and so ti… Robert M. Pirsig
“ Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley… Robert M. Pirsig
“ Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?If you take care of it.What do you have to do?Lot's of things. You've been watching me.Will you show me all of them?Sure.Is it hard?Not if you have the ri… Robert M. Pirsig
“ A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was ther… Lily Brooks-Dalton
“ Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles. Lily Brooks-Dalton
“ They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
“ My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge inste… Scott Thompson
