The ad agencies think they know. We do it,the ads tell us, to be cool, to ensure reproductive success, to display something beyond the financial reach of others. Yet conversations with riders and confirmed motorheads reveal latent poetry that seldom makes it into print.
Freedom comes into the conversation.
I wanted something that would go, I wanted to go. Like climbing a mountain, riding a motorcycle can push the horizon back, widen the view. Motorcycles are multipliers and enhancers. With them, we are powerful or graceful, far-ranging, equal to the agile birds or beasts. There is motion, vibration, breathing, galloping, swooping, alighting.