Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 03, 2016
August 02, 2016
August 04, 2016
Transcript:
Caulfield: Why would anyone drink coffee...when you can get caffeine and sugar and bubbles in a can? Frazz: Why would anyone ride a motorcycle when you can ride a bicycle? Caulfield: I like how we sound like we're agreeing when we're totally head-butting. Frazz: I wish everybody argued like us.
That’s a no-brainer if you’ve ever ridden a horse.
And even if you haven’t, there’s an allure to motorcycles that cars do not possess (and bicycles can’t even compete).
Cars keep you enclosed: motorcycles are open, so you can judge and feel the road better.
Cars can act unresponsive and demand greater pull: motorcycles move to more gentle touches.
Cars are excessively expensive for the most part, and their secondary nature as a status symbol becomes a bone of competition among many: motorcycles are usually more affordable and they’re always cool no matter what.
Motorcycles triumph over bicycles because the effort put into pedalling bicycles to attain speed negates the rush most of the time. Bicycle saddles are also typically anti-ergonomic, while motorcycle saddles are often (not so much in sport bikes aka crouch rockets) designed for comfort and control. Bicycles rarely have room for passengers: good motorcycles can carry three. (Streetfighters made in India are often made to.)
So that’s why anyone would ride a motorcycle over a bicycle.
(And if anyone’s interested, I’m gathering support to fund and produce a documentary in memory of Veenu Paliwal, one of the gutsiest women in India to ever mount a Harley – they actually called her the HOG Rani, the Queen of Harley Owners.)