Ralph "Sonny" Barger is a well-known biker, the founder and long-time President of the most visible chapter of the most visible motorcycle club in the world.
He has got a few books published about the MC he belongs to, but just published a new book about riding, which I prefer since I am not into biker gang culture. Anyway, although he has some criminal records and famous as a biker gang, he has been riding over 5 decades-exception of the four years in federal prison for conspiring to blow up the clubhouse of a rival MC in KY- and he claims that still put at least 5000 miles on his bike every year and he is still alive, surviving (I meant as a rider, not as a gang member) so there should be a lot we can learn from him as a fellow motorcycle enthusiast, right? Here is some of his quotes from the book.
"…I recommend adopting attitude that every single person on the road is a sociopathic serial killer who has just escaped from an asylum for the criminally insane. This might seem a little pessimistic, but you’ll live longer if you assume everyone else on the road is a homicidal moron whose sole purpose is to kill you."
"It might not be the same as spending a lifetime in some Buddhist monastery, but the concentration required while riding a motorcycle is a form of focused meditation that makes all the petty distractions of day-to-day life melt away. It might seem morbid to concentrate on potential danger with such intense focus, but it clears my head. When I’m finished riding, I feel relaxed and recharged, so morbid or not, I consider it a beneficial activity."
His site
The books note-all the books you get from here are signed by him. You can git them cheaper if you go to Amazon or any other your favorite book selling site, I bet.
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