Biker's Guide to the Open Road, A: Ride It Like You Stole It

Do you dream of a pie and coffee breakfast in a back road diner?

Know what it's like to fix a bike with bungee cords and electrician's tape?

Live for the roar of your engine and the wind on your face?

A side-cracking companion volume to Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On: A Biker's Guide to Life, this collection of biker's wisdom is sure to entertain you with its attitude and insight into life, the road, and life on the road. Whether or not you ride a motorcycle, you'll recognize the black leather and heart of gold beneath it in these pages.

A few bikerisms:

Sometimes the journey ain't about how fast you get there. Sometimes it is.

Never sneeze inside a full-face helmet.

Never let workin' get in the way of ridin'

Whatever it is, go around it. You can't tell a rock from cotton candy at sixty miles per hour.

Do you dream of a pie and coffee breakfast in a back road diner?

Know what it's like to fix a bike with bungee cords and electrician's tape?

Live for the roar of your engine and the wind on your face?

A side-cracking companion volume to Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On: A Biker's Guide to Life, this collection of biker's wisdom is sure to entertain you with its attitude and insight into life, the road, and life on the road. Whether or not you ride a motorcycle, you'll recognize the black leather and heart of gold beneath it in these pages.

A few bikerisms:

Sometimes the journey ain't about how fast you get there. Sometimes it is.

Never sneeze inside a full-face helmet.

Never let workin' get in the way of ridin'

Whatever it is, go around it. You can't tell a rock from cotton candy at sixty miles per hour.

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Penny Powers is the author of Sit Down, Shut Up & Hang On: A Biker's Guide to Life, also published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher.

Chuck Hayes has spent the past twenty years as a journalist and writer. He is currently finishing a Ph.D at University of Iowa, where he also teaches newspaper and magazine writing. He divides his time between Iowa and South Dakota. His 1989 Harley-Davidson Sportster has been ridden into the ground and rebuilt several times, but he still refuses to buy a larger bike.