| Author | Message | ||
     Ray_maines  |
Court: That's NOT fair! Defend yourself with your own post, but leave my stuff alone. I'm sorry to have mis-quoted you, but don't edit my posts. Ray | ||
| Spiderman  |
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube and that's why God created fast motorcycles! Hunter S. Thompson Source unsure | ||
| Timbo  |
Female dancing: "Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?" Johnny: "What've you got?" The Wild One (1953) | ||
| Timbo |
“There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.” – Ernest Hemingway | ||
| Eeeeek  |
"That guy on the Road Panzer was really moving." -FB | ||
| Awprior  |
"How much does this NOT suck..." Ferris, multiple times during our two day stint of the Ride Across North America. | ||
| Blake |
"Wind in the face beats money in the bank any day" said me  "A ride in the rain beats a sunny day at the office" said me "Anyone interested in joining/forming a newsgroup/email list concerning Buell motorcycles?" By some fool on http://www.motorcycle.com/mo/mccompare/bikiniarch3.html back on February 3rd, 1998. My favorit though... "Ride to lean." By Jerry Haughton. "There are no bad motorcycles." By Court Canfield. "Feel the noise." Adrenalin Moto! | ||
| Buellerthanyou  |
"A skittish motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on Earth..." --T.E. Lawrence "I never, ever ignore the speed limit. If my M2's speedometer says the speed limit is 140, I won't go a mile over that. To do so would be reckless and irresponsible." --"Billzebub" Bessonette Proprietor of the Iron Armadillo Bar, San Antonio, Texas (Buells welcomed) "That is the most visceral and angriest damn motorcycle I've ever ridden." --Frightened Ducatista after riding an S1 (thanks Dueller) "GET ON YER BIKES AND RIDE!" --Freddie M2ercury from "Fat Bottomed Girls" | ||
| Court |
>>>Court: That's NOT fair! That's an accurate statement. I apologize. I put the changed text in color but it was still a naughty thing to do. Blake: I love reading some of those old posts. I realize now that many of the quotes "Ride safe, lean much and smile more" are going on 10 years old. Whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Quotes? For mine, I'll cite Erik Buell:
Court | ||
| Jerry_haughton  |
Ray: Mr. Canfield had a lot more restraint than me, as i was tempted to delete your post in it entirety. when i read your words - no, not the quote, but how you spelled Court's name - i was embarrassed and angry, as i took your deliberate misspelling as disrespect. truth be told, i went to bed last night thinking i should've said something to you. back when Court was regularly trumpeting the virtues of the Cyclone he posted his "Best bike and I can prove it" catch line often, and unless my memory is fading, you used to take some measure of delight in taking him to task for his cheer leading efforts, seeming to miss entirely the spirit in which he said these words. i gather from your posts over the recent years you've acquired a distaste for Buells, yet i know of no significant mechanical issues you had with yours, and unless i'm further mistaken the primary reason you're not presently on a Buell is that you crashed yours into retirement. if i've read you wrong before, i apologize. if i've read you wrong now, i apologize. if you meant no disrespect to Court in your rude (in my opinion) misspelling of his name above, i apologize. i shouldn't be highjacking my own thread like this, and i know my words are hardly in the spirit of the Holidays, but Mr. Canfield has done a ton for me personally and for Buell fans around the globe, and has contributed tirelessly over the years to the sport in general, and yet the best you could do was take a petty little jab at him? Happy Holidays and Peace, Ray. this is a Buell ENTHUSIAST site; try to be ENTHUSIASTIC about something for a change?  | ||
| Court |
Ferris: Stand down my young apprenctice....he meant no disrespect and he was right. I took the namomorpiousity as simple funnin' me in the holiday season when my guard is down. The detractors of Buell have generally been winged like a quail hit by 00 buck as Buell reliability has skyrocketed. In fact, time has proven what I have long maintained about the M-2 Cyclone. Folks, several here, have relinquished them for new XB's, but now without seller's remorse and seveal attempts to find ways to buy their Cyclones back! The "one of the best motorcycles ever made" quote will stand the test of time, and in fact time has borne it out, in the world of two wheeled fun. Now, as a pal immersed in artic weather, i command you to take the highly looktractive Denise and dispatch yourself for a ride in your warm clime! Court ....at my age, entering my sunset years, I am much less bothered than I used to be in my yute. | ||
| Spinzealot  |
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan | ||
| Spinzealot |
"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan | ||
| Davegess |
Colin Edwards after being taken on a fast lap of the TT course at the Isle of Man. "Now I know what kind of machine you need to win the TT...You need a wheelbarrow to carry your balls." | ||
| Glitch  |
I have no idea who wrote this, but I've carried it with me for a while. Sums it up for me though. A motorcycle is not just a two-wheeled car; the difference between driving a car and climbing onto a motorcycle is the difference between watching TV and actually living your life. We spend all our time sealed in boxes and cars are just the rolling boxes that shuffle us from home-box to work-box to store-box and back, the whole time, entombed in stale air, temperature regulated, sound insulated, and smelling of carpets. On a motorcycle I know I'm alive. When I ride, even the familiar seems strange and glorious. The air has weight and substance as I push through it and its touch is as intimate as water to a swimmer. I feel the cool wells of air that pool under trees and the warm spokes of that fall through them. I can see everything in a sweeping 360 degrees, up, down and around, wider than Pana-Vision and than IMAX and unrestricted by ceiling or dashboard. Sometimes I even hear music. It's like hearing phantom telephones in the shower or false doorbells when vacuuming; the pattern-loving brain, seeking signals in the noise, raises acoustic ghosts out of the wind's roar. But on a motorcycle I hear whole songs: rock 'n roll, dark orchestras, women's voices, all hidden in the air and released by speed. At 30 miles per hour and up, smells become uncannily vivid. All the individual tree- smells and flower- smells and grass-smells flit by like chemical notes in a great plant symphony. Sometimes the smells evoke memories so strongly that it's as though the past hangs invisible in the air around me, wanting only the most casual of rumbling time machines to unlock it. A ride on a summer afternoon can border on the rapturous. The sheer volume and variety of stimuli is like a bath for my nervous system, an electrical massage for my brain, a systems check for my soul. It tears smiles out of me: a minute ago I was dour, depressed, apathetic, numb, but now, on two wheels, (or a Trike; for that matter), big, ragged, windy smiles flap against the side of my face, billowing out of me like air from a decompressing plane. Transportation is only a secondary function. A motorcycle is a joy machine. It's a machine of wonders, a metal bird, a motorized prosthetic. It's light and dark and shiny and dirty and warm and cold lapping over each other; it's a conduit of grace, it's a catalyst for bonding the gritty and the holy. Cars lie to us and tell us we're safe, powerful, and in control. The air-conditioning fans murmur empty assurances and whisper, "Sleep, sleep." Motorcycles tell us a more useful truth: we are small and exposed, and probably moving too fast for our own good, but that's no reason not to enjoy every minute of the ride. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Ferris: Stand down my young apprenctice....he meant no disrespect... perhaps. ...and he was right. agreed. Now, as a pal immersed in artic weather, i command you to take the highly looktractive Denise and dispatch yourself for a ride in your warm clime! COMMAND? well since you put it THAT way. look for pix tonight in the Tale Section. "To discover new people while biking. To be bathed in the charm of an unfamiliar place. To hear the spin-song of wheels on the road. These are the ingredients of a good ride." -- Kay "Amazon" Howard, '91 H-D FXRS Low Rider | ||
| Denisea |
yourself for a ride in your warm clime! THIS, the best thought for the day. "...This is the perfume of the past. Future scents wait by the road." --- Melissa Holbrook Pierson --(Ferris and JB2: keep reading.) | ||
| Denisea |
That's NOT fair! sometimes it helps to put on the Big Girl Panties and Deal with It. Whoops, Big Boy Panties.  | ||
| Anonymous |
"Are we in trouble again?" made famous by JB2 | ||
| Pdxs3t  |
LOL....D you are too funny! Jim | ||
| Outrider  |
Court...Thanks for your understanding. The intentional misspelling of your name in my response to Dyna's "Guess Who" quote was purely tongue in cheek humor and a bit of a play on Norm Crosby if you remember him. Ray...Sorry if I led you into a trap and got you in trouble. Jerry...From the sound of things, if I ever get in a fight, I want you covering my back! | ||
| Mr_grumpy  |
Oh S**t not again, Me, as I lobbed my first bike, a nearly new '76 TS250 Suzuki, for the umpteenth time. (In my defence, I was only 17 at the time & on 70's technology semi-knobblies)  | ||
| Ray_maines |
Court: My apologies. Misspelling your name seemed kind of funny at the time but as I read it again 24 hours later I see that it wasn't funny at all. I wouldn't have been very amused if you had done that sort of thing to my name and I don't know why I thought you should have been happy about it either. Very sorry, sir. Ferris: Merry Christmas, pal. | ||
| Rek  |
Grumpy: too funny, I did very nearly the exact sequence and exclaimation on a '73 TS250 (also my first bike) on the very first day I had it. Scene 1: a lonely gravel road in rural Missouri. A 15 year old boy flying at 50 mph towards the T-junction. Scene 2: The bike skids fish-tailing around the corner, nearly makes the turn, and then both wheels slam into the earthen berm along the bar ditch and launches the unsuspecting pilot. Scene 3: I somehow got the bike off the top of me and restarted it without the use of my left arm (broken collar bone), hobbled home on slow-slow and put the bike away before my folks got home from work. Scene 27: my mom rants at me and my dad after dinner when they finally discovered how grieviously I had been wounded on my first day out. A very embareassing situation since all her fears were justified the very first day I had the bike. Rob | ||
| Bkw_bmw  |
"One cannot really enjoy speed to the absolute limit if there's a destination involved." - Stirling Moss "They say your problems disappear at 160 mph. So I blend into the wind at 14,000 rpm and outride the demons that chase me." - Anonymous | ||
| Jb2 |
"Cheap, and worth it." Neil Peart "To struggle is to achieve." Dave Barr "Okay, no more trick ridin'!" Mike Breedlove (Message edited by jb2 on December 21, 2004) | ||
| Rek |
"D'oh!" Homer Simpson | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Ray: and you. | ||
| Firemanjim  |
Was that when JB2 and FMJ were walking the streets of Wendover at 3:00 am looking for some coffee with a wee bit o' stagger??? "I'm fixin to ride it like I stole it---"Richard Nallin,Bonneville Saltflats. Jerry,got a bee in yer bonnet?? Actually saw the sun today and went for 100 miles of christmas shopping. | ||
| Crusty |
You can't put a price on worthlessness -A friend looking at my newly acquired 1954 Matchless 350 back in the '70s. |
