"A skittish motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocations, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.  Because Boa loves me, he gives me five more miles of speed than a stranger would get from him." -- Excerpts from "The Road," by T.E. Lawrence ('Boa', is short for Boanerges 'Sons of Thunder', the title Jesus gave to disciples James and John. Each of Lawrence's 8 Brough motorbikes had a name.)

"When my mood gets too hot and I find myself wandering beyond control I pull out my motor-bike and hurl it top-speed through these unfit roads for hour after hour.  My nerves are jaded and gone near dead, so that nothing less than hours of voluntary danger will prick them into life: and the 'life' they reach then is a melancholy joy at risking something worth exactly 2/9 a day." -- T.E. Lawrence

(The photo of the left is of T. E. Lawrence and George Brough in October 1930)