Verdammt, jetzt hab ich erst kapiert, was du anregen wolltest, Blaubär: Harley-Zitate und nicht nur Buchtitel.

Na gut, dann schlag ich mal schnell nach:
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loud proclaiming: "Wow, what a ride!"
(aus dem Buch "The original wild ones")
Und dann gibbet da noch den ultimativen, allerdings sehr philosophisch angehauchten Spruch aus dem Buch "Zen - oder die Kunst, ein Motorrad zu warten", den ich in diesem Forum vor allem Zonk, Big Al, Saarländer, André und TWG widme:
"The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon."
(R.M. Pirsig)
Und mein Lieblingszitat lass ich auch hier gerne noch mal erklingen:
The truth:
“Whether they want to admit it or not, the truth is that without the excesses of the motorcycle outlaw there wouldn’t be any Harley scene to romanticize in the first place. There’d just be a bunch of guys tooling around on H-D touring rigs.
It was the wild lifestyle and the wild custom motorcycles of the outlaws that paved the way for the factory choppers that have always been Harley’s best sellers. Everything that H-D sells in their dealer boutiques is a direct distillation of the “lifestyle”, and it’s anything but conservative.
The all out freedom represented by a hairy, dangerous greaser on a flashy chopper has sold a million Hogs. And to criticize that subculture, however indirectly, is to betray a profound lack of understanding of the whole phenomenon.”
(David Snow, Iron Horse Magazine May 1991)
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When your chopper is broken you fix it. When you are broken your chopper fixes you.