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The attacker carried the bomb in a motorcycle and detonated when he drove to the parking area of a military training center. Nine including five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed, and 28 others injured,

It's amazing how many times helmets save lives. Kids' bicycle helmets, motorcycle helmets, even your old high school football helmet; they all will protect your head from flying debris.

It was not a good day for me. I punctured trying to overtake a motorcycle and then it just got worse. Now I will have to push a little on Thursday to gain back some time.

In my 25 years in the motorcycle industry, I've found the most important elements of success are character and vision. John Covington and the entire Steed team are just that type of individuals. Now, with Patriot's experience and involvement, the world of custom V-Twins has gained the broad distribution and marketing muscle that has been lacking to date. Together, we have set out to change the industry.

In this particular incidence involving a motorcycle with a sidecar, we believe he was operating under the law.

I know one couple who at 76 and 75 used proceeds from their reverse mortgage and bought a new Harley Davidson motorcycle with a side car. There are basically three types of people who get these loans. There are need-based borrowers, who need the money to supplement what they are getting. There are security borrowers, who are getting by but want to add a reserve to pay for such things as emergency repairs. And there are lifestyle borrowers, who are doing OK on their retirement income but want to add some discretionary income.

High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affected consumer demand; retail sales have been affected.

Generally, it's a fellow who had a motorcycle 20 or 30 years ago, ... They're guys who are either retired or nearing retirement. I think their mind-set is, 'This will be the last bike I have. I want to revisit the old times.'

I didn't get this dressed up to watch you mess around in the gutter with a bunch of motorcycles." "They are pretty to look at," said Jace. "You have to admit that." "So am I," said Isabelle.

If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.

My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do something." And I'll plan a trip and go on a motorcycle trip down the Baja [Peninsula] for 900 miles and I'll hang out with my friends for like a month, and then they'll never see me for two months or three months or whatever, and I won't answer any calls.

It really was a hell of a motorcycle, ..It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.

nobody could catch a vampire on a motorcycle.

Do I race motorcycles? I do. I use the word 'race' because, I admit, what I do on a motocross bike is different than riding a Harley down the street.

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him

I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

I'm a big bike fan - my homies got Harleys and all kind of choppers - but to be honest I'm scared to ride motorcycles like that.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

For the most part, we have adequate motorcycle parking on campus, but in particular cases when someone needs motorcycle parking in an area that didn't need it before, we have to find an area for them to park within a reasonable distance,

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

When I ran for governor, I told all the bikers, "You don't need to worry about me bringing in a helmet law. It's your option because you as a motorcycle rider that's your option. It doesn't come with the bike."

When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group.

My son asked for very little - a kickstand, with a motorcycle attached.

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

I respect motorcycles so much. They've come such a long way. It's amazing!

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.

I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

This is a hands-on event. People will be able to get on the motorcycle and have their picture taken. It has been touring the United States, with approximately 70 stops across the nation. At the end of the tour, Case will draw the name of some lucky person and they will win the motorcycle. Visitors will be able to register here at the Case Celebration.

I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

And it will be exciting to be located in the Motor City's hotbed of hot rod and motorcycle enthusiasts just blocks from the famous Woodward Avenue.

And I to my motorcycle Parked like the soul of the junkyard Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106 continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth Wringing the handlebar for speed Wild to be wreckage forever

The driver veered off the roadway edge where his motorcycle struck a section of guardrail causing an ejection,

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.

The market is terrific, ... The long range forecasts are still very positive. The Indian is a powerful name, probably the most powerful name in the motorcycle world, other than Harley-Davidson. The question is, after you sell the first 1,000 or 500, will there be an ongoing market?

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

I never rode a motorcycle before CHiPs.

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.

The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

The way I hold the club, I've got my hand way over, like I'm driving a motorcycle. My Kawasaki grip.

When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.

I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills.

I was ranked No in the world and then I was out for months between my shoulder surgery and my parents getting in a motorcycle accident in ,

I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.

Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.

[Mike] just loves [his] motorcycle and he would take it out too early [in Green Bay]. In Green Bay, you've got ice until June, and he'd take it out sooner than that. He can finish the rest of the story. Ask him about taking the bike out a little too early.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do... 'You're going to be raped, be naked...' but as soon as he was like, 'You're going to have to ride a motorcycle,' I was like, 'Oh, really?'

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

We all like motorcycles to some degree.

The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.

I don't want no pickle. Just want to ride my motorcycle.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE

It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....

The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.