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[catness]

Something about my bike changes everything. On a motorcycle I'm happy and graceful and free in a way that I'm not, at any other time. Even in the rain, in the cold, late at night in November, with back pain, with stress, with my left mirror and turn signals snapped off by some drunk parking genius who tipped the bike over, I am much more myself,

Comments

[hawkegirl]

*grok*

[steam]

Be careful - if you start dealing with negative folks, you may touch one and cause a massive explosion.

[drwex]

Yeah! Go you! I cheer heartily for your positive thoughts and energies and hope they carry you someplace really good.

[penk]

Bike riding to me removes the 'isolation' between operating a machine and being a part of the environment it creates. A car feels like a box that happens to be carrying me along. Riding a bike is a machine that i've attached to myself that lets -me- move in ways I can't on my own. On an open-frame bike (no fairing or the like), I can -fly- and do things no human being can do - it just takes this extra hardware to do it.

That's what I get out of riding. The ability to let myself go, and be a part of the wind and the motion and the world around me.

Now i wanna go riding.

[srl]

Damn, and my CB-1's still in the garage. At least I've got a pedalbike.

Thanks for the reminder.