Wilsons Sandbox

--- In DSN_klr650@egroups.com, 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

Hmmm..... For me, it's the prefered mode of transportation. I ride all year, or least when there is traction to be had. I take pride that I am a responsible rider and wear my gear all the time. I don't care about owning a certain brand. To me, anyone that owns a bike only because of its brand is in it for other reasons. I ride practical, do-it-all bikes that are relatively light and are good value. They can travel cross country and squirt through traffic with ease. The KLR fits the bill perfectly and can venture off-road too. I do care about the look of my bike as do all motorcyclists. Any rider that says they do not care about how their bike looks is not being truthful. If that were the case, we'd all be riding Pacific Coasts. MR

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 06:38:56 -0800 Toby 'Slide' Lampson wrote:

> ...I'm curious........ Why motorcycling?

It's a nomadic thing in a world that is increasingly self-centered. We can get outside of ourselves. Bruce Chatwin, author of Songlines, wondered why people who travel seem to have a natural curiousity and happiness with things as they were, compared to settlers that seem to become increasingly dissatisfied with their surroundings. On a motorcycle, there's always promise of a warm place around the bend. The promise is illustrated partly by what W. Somerset Maugham said in the Moon and Sixpence in 1919: "Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest." It's only a promise. Thinking about it might jazz some of us. But I suspect that there is a group of us who will always be romantic nomads at heart, and use motorcycles and virtual elements to make it happen. It's not that common in women, but they are changing. Mariola is a great example, and I see it happening with women friends. Fireball

A man isn't a man unless he has a motorcycle. Kyle -----Original Message----- From: Toby 'Slide' Lampson [mailto:jazranch@...] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 9:39 AM To: KLRville Subject: [DSN_klr650] Why Motorcycles? 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 Visit the KLR650 archives at http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... Let's keep this list SPAM free! Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com

>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........

Before I could pedal a bicycle, I could twist the grip. The reason is not the same now as it was. I guess the first I rode was because I was a "big boy" who could ride a minibike: ego. Then I was a young dirt rider, who in the farming community could out ride anybody within a tanks range: ego. In my teens I raced off road and thought I was a "chick magnet": ego. Now I ride because it is a different, free, open, exciting method of transportation: anti-ego? Good question. == Rev. Chuck :^)>+ A13 http://klr650.50megs.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _____________________________________________________________

> In a message dated 11/28/00 9:53:41 AM EST, jazranch@... writes: > > > Slide >>

simple, if i don't get to do some 2-wheelin', i go completely freakin' nuts. it can be motoring or pedaling, but i just like to ride 2 wheels, on dirt or street. i like the control. i like the combination of physical work (not road motoring) and technical gadgetry. i like the fear in the gut when you whack open the throttle on a very powerful engine and feel your arms being pulled out of the sockets. i just like to ride. mw

I find JOY in the riding. Any riding. I ENJOY the relationships formed with other kindred spirits. I am interested in mechanical things, I enjoy things that follow the maxim "form follows function". That's why I ride a KLX and not a dressed up cruiser. Nothing against dressed up bikes, but the dressed up part doesn't do much for me. Ordinary life, meaning when I'm not on some type of adventure, is boring. I'm very happy, but just going to work, cutting the lawn, reading the paper, is BORING. I need some excitement, some adventure. Motorcycling has always been there for me. Fortunately, I have been blessed with a comfortable, rather mundane life, so I can seek adventure, as oppossed to other poor souls who endure war, famine, and poverty. I can't imagine not being involved in motorcycling in some way. Ed --- In DSN_klr650@egroups.com, 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