For those of you who don't ride, I understand that you don't "get it". And that's ok, I'm not here to try to make you "get it". Hence the cliché, "if I have to explain, you wouldn't understand".  The fact is, that no amount of explanation is going to adequately allow you the clear comprehension of why we yearn to live this life we live at the risk of everything each and every time we throw a leg over that seat.   It's not however about the machine, it's not about trying to make a statement to you or anyone else in the world, it's not even about the people we ride with, it's about the sights, the sounds, the smells, the adventure, the feeling of living this life, in this great country, one breath at a time, one mile at a time, one small town at a time.  But most of all, it is, always has been and forever shall be, purely and simply...   about the wind.   So, in the now immortal words of another modern mythical adventurer nearing the end of his journey but still feeling the call of wild, nothing says it better on a warm summer night with the wind in your face, a clear sky over head and nothing but open road in front of you, than... 

  "Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning." 

  Ride safe my friends 

  Sparky 
 
 

"We want to be free...   Free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man!" 
       --Peter Fonda as Heavenly Blues in The Wild Angels

"We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately" 
      --Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 

 "I never thought freedom was cheap" 
       --Sonny Barger 

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,  bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe,  to assure the survival and the success of liberty" 
       --John F. Kennedy 

"This above all: to thine own self be true,   And it must follow, as the night follows day, 
 Thou cannot then be false to any man" 
       --Shakespeare 

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things  you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. 
Explore. Dream. Discover" 
      --Mark Twain 

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives" 
       --Mel Gibson as William Wallace from the motion picture Braveheart 

"I know not what course others may take; 
but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" 
      --Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775 

"I want you to remember that no bastard  ever won a war by dying for his country. 
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
      --Gen. George S. Patton    June 1944 

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
         --Theodore Roosevelt - 1907
 

It was good in 1907...   (above)      and it's still good today...   (below)    different authors, same great idea.
 

"America may have some problems, but it's our home, our team, and if you don't want to root for your team, 
you should get the hell out of the stadium!" 
      -- Matt Stone - Trey Parker