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I strongly prefer solo motorcycle travel, but it’s at the same time often poignant; i want to share specific moments with a few people, but it’s more or less im
by hprotagonist 3y ago
I strongly prefer solo motorcycle travel, but it’s at the same time often poignant; i want to share specific moments with a few people, but it’s more or less impossible to do so. So you lean a bit further into the turn, breathe, enjoy the moment, and hope the people you’re thinking of will get that moment one day as well.
- leetrout 3y agoThere is something that you can only get flying an airplane solo or riding a motorcycle on roads outside of cities and traffic that I've yet to find a substitute for. The adrenaline. The air. The G's (even on small bike or small planes).
- hprotagonist 3y agothe smells are underrated. Slicing smoothly through the countryside on an empty road, golden hour after a spring rain, the smell of cow farm and cut hay, pulling through big sweepers fast enough to feel the countersteer but somehow dreamlike slow, nothing about the bike in your field of view, just the world and the wind? “i thank you god for most this amazing / day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees”
- tiedieconderoga 3y agoYou might enjoy the classic philosophy novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_...
- hprotagonist 3y agoOf the poppier books of musings and bikes, i like shop class as soul craft somewhat better. zen and… would have clicked for me if i had found it as a younger person, but by the time i got around to reading it i had already come around to the major focal points of the book by other means and the impact was less.