Motorcycle Experience Quotes

I never rode a motorcycle before 'CHiPs.'

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it's been a long journey.

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

After the motorcycle trips I take for one or two weeks, I have trouble getting back into a car, because I feel claustrophobic with all of that metal around me, and I can't see anything. I feel seriously dangerous in a car after riding on a bike, because your field of vision is so closed in. And then I think about all these little bourgeois people driving around in their cars - it's actually hideous. It cramps you on the head, it cramps you on the side, it puts you in a box on wheels... It's a terrible experience. Motorcycles are about opening the field of vision.

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

I've never ridden a hog. I only have sport bikes. But that's basically how I get around L.A. Because traffic is horrendous.

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

I was one of those late bloomers when it comes to motorcycles. I didn't get my motorcycle license until I was 25.

I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.