Recommending to be a Rider

 If you are someone who loves freedom, I highly recommend you to be a owner/rider of a large bike. There are three reasons.

<Reason One: Immediate Gratification>
Once you have become a owner/rider of a large bike, it becomes easy to immediately gratify your need of freedom. All you need is start the bike and hit the road. It's as easy as 1-2-3. There is something about moving from point A to point B on a moving vehicle that is inherently pleasurable. And being a rider gives you immediate access to that sensation.

<Reason Two: Ability to be One with Nature>
If all you need is move from point A to point B, you can achieve the same goal by driving a car as well as simply by walking. But there is something about riding a motorcycle that is fundamentally superior to these other means. That is its ability to allow you to be one with one of the greatest elements of nature--wind. What I mean is this. When driving a car, you and the outer world are separated by a windshield. Therefore you cannot directly feel winds on your face. If driving a convertible, you can feel winds on your arm if you put it over the top of the door, of course, but not directly on your face. Of course, when you ride a motorcycle on public roads in Japan, you are required to wear a helmet, so the actual area of your face on which you can feel the wind varies depending on the structure of your helmet. With a full face helmet, the air hits your face only through a small window. With an open face type, the feeling is more direct. Either way, the sensation of directly feeling the wind while riding is something only motorcycle riders can enjoy. Of course, if you are a jogger, like myself, you can feel winds on your face as you run. But human speed is quite limited compared with the speed the motor vehicle can achieve, so the sensation is no match.

<Reason Three: Comfortable Sounds>
The first two reasons are enough to recommend you to be an owner/rider of a motorcycle. But there is yet another reason that is specific to a motorcycle that is large in size. That is the comfort that the engine sounds provide you with. When riding a bike with a small displacement (250cc-400cc), the engine constantly works at very high speeds. The sounds created by an engine working at high speeds are high-pitched and not very pleasant (unless you are a hooligan!) On the other hand, when a motorcycle with a large displacement (401cc~) travels at the legal top speed of 60 km/h on public road, the engine does not work as fast as that of a smaller bike, and therefore the sounds created are low-pitched and comfortable, like the heart-beat a baby hears in his/her mother's womb. Nothing can beat the level of comfort created by that! And the engine sound of a large motorcycle traveling at a normal speed is very similar to it.

<Conclusion>
You should become an owner/rider of a large motorcycle, because it is fun, bringing to you tremendous joy and comfort. But questions remain regarding how and how much. I would like to write another post sometime on this topic.