Five Reasons ‘Why We Ride’ Motorcycles | Moto Commentary

We Ride to Stand Out

This is probably the most common reason people ride but one most would not want to admit. No one wants to admit they ride for attention. When I first got bike, I was an 18 year old chick on a sport bike and although I probably wouldn’t admit it at the time, I absolutely loved how much it made me stand out.

Cute girls are a dime a dozen but a cute girl that rides is an anomaly. Let’s be honest, no one wants to be “average,” we all prefer to have some sort of edge. Some are not born with a natural “edge” and in a world where being basic makes an already hard life even harder, why not elevate your “badass” status by riding?

Truth be told, it’s one of the easiest ways to stand out. You don’t even have to be a good rider really, just have to know how to get from point A to point B and not drop your bike along the way. That cute girl checking you out at a stop light will have no idea that every time you take out your 1299 Ducati, or whatever other way-too-much-for-you bike you own, you’re just trying not to die.

We Ride to Feel

Life definitely ain’t all sunshine and rainbows and once it becomes too much to bear, the mind tends to shut down leaving people feeling numb and half alive. This is particularly true with those who have been through situations most of us only see on TV.

Like military veterans for example. How do you go back to a normal life after a life like that? Without Epinephrine at their disposal, these people seek other ways to get their heart pumping in that certain way that makes them feel again.

Feel the fear, feel the rush, feel alive, feel anything. Motorcycles have a way of waking up these feelings in people. The danger associated with riding is what keeps many from getting on a bike but for some that danger is what draws them in. Isn’t it ironic how things that kill you, make you feel alive?

Of all the things one can do to feel, riding motorcycles is probably the lesser of most evils. “Some do drugs, some pop bottles, we solve our problems with wide open throttles.”

We Ride to Get Places

For many of those who ride in United States, motorcycles are a luxury. An expensive toy you keep in your garage to play with friends on the weekends. But for majority of the world, motorcycles aren’t anything other than means to get from point A to point B.