“A Harley Davidson motorcycle is a marvelous, amazing machine. Imagine, you put a motor between your legs. It’s basically an old tractor motor that has been modified and refined and refined and refined nearly to perfection. It’s hooked to a five-speed transmission that you can easily hold in both hands. It sits on two rubber patches that can’t cover much more than 10 square inches of pavement at a time. It will run well over 100 miles per hour. It will leap forward whether the altitude is 0 or 10,000 feet, whether the temperature is 30° or 110°. It will run hour after hour, day after day. It starts every time you hit the button–wet, dry, hot cold–makes no difference. It will carry you and all you need for any length trip (and if that’s not enough, it’ll pull a trailer, too). And, it sounds like no other motorcycle on earth. You can’t help but enjoy just listening to it: when you are at a stop light or when you just cruise for mile after mile at 85 miles per hour.”
“…… you are part of the landscape when you are on a motorcycle, rather than observing the landscape as when in a car.”
Ken Green
July 9, 1999
Amen!