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Highside/Lowside - A Motorcycle Podcast

S1 E7 - Do motorcycles have soul?

Highside/Lowside - A Motorcycle Podcast

RevZilla

Motorcycles, Motorcyclenews, Leisure, Automotive, Revzilla

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Some think of it as characteristics that are inherent from the moment of manufacture. Others envision it as something more. Motorcycles are machines. They are made of basically the same stuff as your kitchen toaster. But can machines have soul? That's the question on the HS/LS team's mind this week as they discuss the differences between that which makes a motorcycle unique, and the connection felt between rider and ride that can prove to be much more.

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0:00.0

Howdy, this is Lemy with Revzilla, joined yet again by AutoZone

0:03.9

Officiano Spurgy, as well as the Terror on a Triumph Joe Zito, bringing you

0:08.5

another episode of Highside, Lowside. Now today we're going to be talking about, I think kind of an interesting topic, because we're going to be talking about I think kind of an interesting

0:14.5

topic because we're all over the map on this one we're talking about motorcycles and

0:18.3

sold so we were kind of kicking around some ideas here and I think Joe actually came

0:22.4

up with our present topic

0:24.4

and he wanted to talk about why it is I think that people tend to attribute the characteristic

0:28.8

of soul to a motorcycle or character and And it's not with everything.

0:32.6

You know, motorcycles are kind of a special case, I think,

0:34.6

for a lot of folks.

0:35.8

So let's get right into it.

0:37.6

I mean, what is soul when it comes to motorcycles?

0:40.0

Like, is it what character?

0:41.4

I did a little research on the internet and I found these you can always

0:46.0

believe what you read on the internet. He Googled in his truck five minutes

0:49.6

before we shot this. These were pretty interesting. So the definition under soul that I found

0:55.2

appropriate was the quality that arouses emotion and sentiment, which I feel is true.

1:00.3

The character says capable of portraying an unusual or eccentric personality.

1:04.0

Obviously a motorcycle can have that too.

1:07.0

So I don't really think that they're always both applying to one machine,

1:12.0

but a machine can have both or can have one or the other.

1:15.0

When you're looking at solar character I think whatever it is, whatever that you know

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