The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

“The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done to them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their own fear of death, jail and lawsuits…which are much less likely if they can find a motorcycle to challenge, instead of another two-thousand-pound car or a concrete abutment. A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out to kill him. A few of them are, and many of those who aren’t are just as dangerous—because the only thing that can alter their careless, ingrained driving habits is a threat of punishment, either legal or physical, and there is nothing about a motorcycle to theaten any man in a car. A bike is totally vulnerable; its only defense is manueverability, and every accident situation is potentially fatal…” Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (via amandaraewashere)