Top 3 best feelings on a bike

[dubber68]

Another top 3 for a bit of fun. Mine are

1. That feeling when on a long trip or ride when you stop in the middle of nowhere and take time to appreciate where you are and what you are doing.
2. When you have just ridden a perfect set of bends and nailed everyone of them
3. When without even trying you realise you have just nailed the guy in the rep mobile who was trying to beat you from the lights.

I have many more but lets hear yours

[Brenhden]

1. Riding through a pine Forest.

2. When you see a scary looking obstacle and remember to relax and let the bike deal with it and it just lugs you over it.

3. When the music and the scenery line up and it's like you are doing a riding scene from a movie.

[PHILinFRANCE]

When i turn the key
Wind in my face
Freedom

[Rederic]

I would get locked up if I told you what mine was well the first two would anyway

The third one is just getting on it and going

[Fishandchips]

Filtering down a long queue of traffic
Accidental wheely that happened to look good
Women leering at me because they think I am a young stud (dark visors for us old gits)

[Alan29]

That sensation when riding in mountains that you could just reach out and touch them.

[SteveW]

1. Getting somewhere remote and having it to myself, because only a bike not even a modified 4x4 could have got there.

2. Getting dangerously over-taken, then cut-up on an urban road by a prick in a car. Then gracefully filtering past him (wiithout throwing him a sideways glance) as he's stuck in a queue half a mile down the road.

3. Riding down the outside of two miles of standing traffic at a temporary traffic light, then just as I get to the front, it turns Green and I carry on through without rolling off the throttle.

.......3's not enough.....

4. Exploring a Town/City that's unfamiliar, being able to stop, U turn and generally negotiate and manoeuvre around easily.

5. When you're not on a jolly and using your bike to get somewhere for a certain time...... The fact that to a large extent you are master of your own destiny with regards to traffic. You can always find a way through congestion on a bike.

6. Crossing under the river Mersey for free.

7. Travelling actually in the environment, getting the smells first hand and feeling the breeze, rather than wearing a seatbelt in an air conditioned, self-parking, Lane sensor equipped Clone-mobile.

[Brenhden]

7. Travelling actually in the environment, getting the smells first hand and feeling the breeze, rather than wearing a seatbelt in an air conditioned, self-parking, Lane sensor equipped Clone-mobile.

This is really important. The smell of pine trees or the sea, or (unfortunately) a freshly manured field. In France I could smell onions in the field and grape juice at a co op wine place.

[Gerry Atric69]

Mine are
1) managing to swing my leg over without catching my boot on the seat!
2)when it will starts
3) getting off the stand without dropping it !
Once you get that far the trauma is over.

[AustinW]

1. Setting off in the morning on a trip and not really knowing where you are going, not knowing what the roads ahead might bring and not knowing where your are going to stay that night. But knowing it will all be fine.

2. Hard acceleration out of a corner. Gets me every time.

3. When it starts after you have had it in pieces to service or repair it. Phew.