The secret is to stop thinking of them as pot holes and to begin thinking of them as unexpected opportunities to maybe catch some air and test out the effectiveness of your road leathers.

In some states, helmets remain optional—just as in some states, helmets remain optional.

Others may watch as you roar by, but never forget:  ultimately, the ride belongs to you and you alone.

All the chrome and neon in the world won’t disguise a dirty AMSOIL Super Duty oil filter.

Putting on a flashy white jump suit and vaulting over a row of school buses will never make up for a lonely childhood.  Figuratively speaking. 

Remember:  the problem may not reside in the piston itself, but rather with your anxiety over how the piston will perform.

The best seat is not necessarily the most expensive or attractive seat; often times, a ragged, worn seat works best—particularly if it can cook a good steak and keep a clean house—and is open to “experimenting” with other seats.

Remember:  if life is a highway, you are the yellow line that divides it.  And a yellow line wouldn’t be caught dead without plenty of toll change and a package of beef jerky in its saddle bag, would it…?

At some point in the journey—when the seat is vibrating just so — the enlightened rider will reach self-actualization.  Particularly if she’s a woman and happens to be wearing cutoffs.  Or some of those kinky specialty beads…

Full-bore, on a flat Kansas highway, you can hit 145 mph, easy.  But that doesn’t mean you have to.