Hunter S. Thompson
THERE ARE SOME THINGS NOBODY NEEDS IN THIS world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp speed 900cc cafe-racer is one of them-but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.
Everybody has fast motorcycles these days. Some people go 150 miles an hour on two-lane blacktop roads, but not often. There are too many oncoming trucks and-too many radar cops and too many stupid animals in the way. You have, to be a little crazy to ride these super-torque high-speed crotch rockets anywhere except a racetrack - and even there, they will scare the whimpering shit out of you... There is, after all, not a pig’s eye worth of difference between going head-on into a Peterbilt or sideways into the bleachers. On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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BEING SHOT OUT OF A CANNON WlLL ALWAYS BE BETTER THAN BEING SQUEEZED OUT OF A TUBE. THAT IS WHY GOD MADE FAST MOTORCYCLES, BUBBA… I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED THIS, IN SPITE OF THE TROUBLE IT'S CAUSED ME.
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