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SOURCE: SHOUTWIRE.COM: I have compiled what I think are the greatest motorcycle quotes found throughout various sources. None of these quotes are mine, but I plan on coming up with my own personal bike quotes for another editorial. My bike has been in the shop for about 2 weeks, which can account for the feverish inspiration.
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"I'd rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle."
"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."
"You start the game with a full pot o’ luck and an empty pot o’ experience...
The object is to fill the pot of experience before you empty the pot of luck."
"Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existence."
"A cold hamburger can be reheated quite nicely by strapping it to an exhaust pipe and riding forty miles."
"Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of fuel before you can think straight."
"Keep your bike in good repair: Motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking."
"The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome."
"If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride."
"Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary."
"Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck."
"Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes."
"When you're riding lead, don't spit."
"Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy."
"Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly."
"If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there won't be."
"If you really want to know what’s going on, watch what’s happening at least five [vehicles] ahead."
"If the person in the next lane at the stoplight rolls up the window and locks the door, support their view of life by snarling at them."
"A friend is someone who’ll get out of bed at 2 am to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere to get you when you’re broken down."
"If she changes her oil more than she changes her mind, follow her."
"If you want to get somewhere before sundown, you can’t stop at every tavern."
"A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of fuel."
"Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't."
"Respect the person who has seen the dark side of motorcycling and lived."
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"Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..." - Hunter Thompson
"There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games." - Ernest Hemingway
"A zest for living must include a willingness to die." - R.A. Heinlein
"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." - Alexei Sayle
"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle." - Stephan Jenkins
"If I'm out trail-riding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite.
If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite." - Evel Knievel
"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times." - Evel Knievel
"When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write." - Chantal Kreviazuk
"And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106 continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth Wringing the handlebar for speed Wild to be wreckage forever." - James Dickey
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It sounds like science fiction. Rocket propelled jets racing across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, while millions of fans watch and cheer at home and in stadiums all across the world.
Well, for now it is, but if Peter Diamandis, founder of the aerospace Ansari X Prize, has his way, it will be a reality by late next year.
Diamandis unveiled the Rocket Racing League, a strange hybrid of NASCAR and NASA, at a ceremony Monday in New York as its co-founder and chairman.
"For me, it is a remembrance of sort of 'Star Wars' pod racing," said Diamandis, referring to the rocket race portrayed in 1999's "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace."
Diamandis hopes to hold an exhibition event with four so-called X-Racer planes in October of 2006. The project aims to "inspire people of all ages to once again look up into the sky and find inspiration and excitement," the wild eyed entrepreneur said in a statement.
The hour long races are set to include a dramatic X-Racer liftoff allowing fans to follow each rocket plane by tracking their 20-foot exhaust plumes and watching large-screen TVs.
Streaming multi-angle video would be available from each aircraft, showing cockpit, "on-track" and "side-by-side" and wing-angle views. Fans also would be able to track races by using hand-held GPS devices connected to WiFi systems.
The rocket planes will have a liquid oxygen/kerosene fuel mix, calculated to have a burn time of four minutes, requiring pilots to shut down their engines repeatedly and glide, then restart to pass opponents at up to 300 mph.
The race course would be two miles long, a mile wide and about 5,000 feet high.
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Bloodied but not beaten, the United States bounced back to hold Italy to a 1-1 tie Saturday night in an ugly World Cup game with three ejections, a disallowed American goal and wide-open play.
With thousands of fans in red, white and blue cheering the United States on a warm night, the Americans came out aggressive — and then hung on while playing most of the second half at a man disadvantage. Their reward was their first World Cup point in Europe.
U.S. goalkeeper Kasey Keller saved the Americans with a pair of point-blank stops on Alessandro Del Piero in the final 20 minutes.
"It was a total team effort and those guys bled today for our country and our team," Keller said.
The American team, harshly criticized for lackluster and nervous play in their opener, went to a corner of the field after the final whistle to salute their fans at Fritz-Walter-Stadion, a group roughly equal in size to supporters of the famous Azzurri, a three-time World Cup champion.
"We gave everything, but it was difficult after the second red card," captain Claudio Reyna said. "We gave everything at the end to get a point."
The result complicated a group that after the first games seemed clear.
Italy (1-0-1) leads Group E with four points, one ahead of the Czechs and Ghana (both 1-1) and three ahead of the Americans (0-0-1).
The United States, seemingly deflated after a 3-0 loss to the Czech Republic, now finds itself with a chance to advance to the second round if it beats Ghana on Thursday in its final first-round game.
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