A motorcycle is an independent thing. — Ryan Hurst
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind. — Robert M. Pirsig
The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view. — Dan Eldon
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike. — Valentino Rossi
There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic. — Liz Vassey
The quieter you ride, the further you'll get. — Russian Proverbs
Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion. — Sonny Barger
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. — Jacky Ickx
There's the difference between hardcore motorcycle riders and people who own motorcycles. Some people ride'em and some people trailer'em. — Sonny Barger
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. — Juli Furtado
You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in a lifetime. — Burt Munro
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy. — Zygmunt Bauman
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. — Claude Pepper
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. — Susan B. Anthony
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. — Frances E. Willard
It's the way you ride the trail that counts. — Dale Evans
If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it. — Linda J. Furney
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. — Proverbs
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. — Mario Andretti
If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Image Quotes
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
Motorcycle Maintenance Quotes
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. — Robert M. Pirsig
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. — Robert M. Pirsig
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. — Robert M. Pirsig
Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value. — Robert M. Pirsig
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. — Robert M. Pirsig
You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. — Robert M. Pirsig
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. — Robert M. Pirsig
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. — Robert M. Pirsig
If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. — Robert M. Pirsig
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. — Robert M. Pirsig
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know. — Robert M. Pirsig
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive — Robert M. Pirsig
The more you look, the more you will see. — Roger Tory Peterson
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. — Robert M. Pirsig
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. — Robert M. Pirsig
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself. — Robert M. Pirsig
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions. — Mark Richardson
So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it? — Robert M. Pirsig
Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men. — Robert M. Pirsig
You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. — Robert M. Pirsig
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. — Robert M. Pirsig
To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience. — Robert M. Pirsig
Quality tends to fan out like waves. — Robert M. Pirsig
A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. — Robert M. Pirsig
Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. — Robert M. Pirsig
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. — Robert M. Pirsig
The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself. — Robert M. Pirsig
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. — Robert M. Pirsig
What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses. — Robert M. Pirsig
Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is. — Robert M. Pirsig
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included. — Robert M. Pirsig
Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself. — Robert M. Pirsig
There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig
The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that. — Robert M. Pirsig
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. — Robert M. Pirsig
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. — Robert M. Pirsig
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him. — Robert M. Pirsig
What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct. — Robert M. Pirsig
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. — Robert M. Pirsig
Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. — Robert M. Pirsig
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. — Robert M. Pirsig
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. — Robert M. Pirsig
The more you look, the more you see. — Robert M. Pirsig
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude — Robert M. Pirsig
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