Because a motorcycle is a cycle like my bicycle. It makes real and present the safety that I found in freedom as a child; the ability to be somewhere else when the hammer came down at home or at school. Because on a bike I am outdoors. I'm in the world and able to feel the temperature changes and the winds. Because I can smell the damp desert floor and vegetation, the cool pines, flowers in the fields. Because I do not feel separated from all the life around me. because the bike makes the environment the entertainment.
Because a good one is cheap enough that I can actually push the button and ride without a fiscal study.
Because the bike needs me. I do not need major mechanical traumas, but the small things that are simply needed lest the machine fall into a state of disrepair are rewarding in themselves. I need not take it to a crew chief for everything it needs; I can enter into fellowship with my bike.
And that wonderful moment, where I am alone with my bike along some highway. A tiny even huggable machine ticking and popping as it cools while I take a few moments to survey the landscape and stretch my legs.
