Most of these ideas can be modified for Motorcycles, Bicycles, Motocross, 4-Wheeling, Off-roading, Go-Karts, etc. Many things in the Car Racing and Sports files will work for biking pages.

Page Toppers

Quotes

• But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race. (Donald Antrim)
• Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. (H.G. Wells)
• A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
• If you can't get it going with bungee cords and electrician's tape - it's serious.
• Never mistake horsepower for staying power.
• To ride or not to ride...THAT is a stupid question!
• Well-trained reflexes are better than luck.
• Winter is Nature's way of telling you to polish.

Bicycle Quotes

• The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. (Ann Strong, 1895)
• The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. (John Howard)
• First Law of Bicycling: No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind.
• Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. (Mark Twain)
• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. (Ernest Hemingway)
• It never gets easier, you just go faster. (Greg LeMond)
• Kansas: home of the highway with 318 miles and 11 curves.
• Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. (James E. Starrs)
• Pain is a big fat creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier he feels. The harder you push, the tighter he squeezes your chest. The steeper the climb, the deeper he digs his jagged, sharp claws into your muscles. (Scott Martin)
• Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. (Grant Peterson)
• When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. (H.G. Wells)

Page Ideas

• Take a small toy tricycle or bike and run the tires across a pigma ink pad or color on the tires with your calli pen and then run it across the page to make "tire tracks".
• Motocross
  Make a border of triangular flags using bright colors, like yellow, orange, and red. I also used the checkered design line stickers (black and white) to make a checkered flag border around the page. Cut some circles out of classic browns using the circle cutter. Cut out the centers to make tires.
  Use a single-hole punch to cut half-circles into the edges of the circles to make them look like "knobby" tires. You can frame photos with these "tires". (Use a bunch of different colors - browns and blacks - on one page.) Use the trophy die cuts. Use bright papers to contrast with the bright colors of the MX uniforms. Cut a photo in a silhouette; use classic brown to make the "whoops" or jumps, and make it look like the rider is flying over the hills. I also use the die cut numbers and ABC/123 stickers a lot to brighten up the dirt pictures.
• Four-Wheeling Or Motocross
  I did make some cute circles with the centers cut out to look like tires. The outside of the circle was cut out with the scallop scissors backwards
• Go-Kart page ideas

Riding a Two-Wheeled Bike

I can't believe I'm doing this!
I'm riding on two wheels!
Why, it was only yesterday
My bike had training wheels!

My parent's said, "You're ready now."
"OK", I said, "I'll try."
My daddy ran and held the seat
While mommy said, "Let's fly!"

I'm peddling really fast now.
The wind is in my hair.
I feel as if I'm flying high
Two-wheeling through the air!

Two Wheels

Different Bicycles

(Dorothy W. Baruch)

Guy, 17 years old, lives for cycling competitions. He trained hard in his cycling club, and the day came when he was to take part in his first real race. His parents went with him to the starting line, giving last-minute advice. Suddenly, the starting signal was given. His mother shouted, "Guy, be careful! Don't go too fast!"

Motorcycles

Motorcycle Quotes

• 200mph, no hands. Damn that'd be cool...right before the part where you die. (A. Duthie)
• Always replace the cheapest parts first.
• The best alarm clock is sunshine on chrome.
• The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.
• A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
• Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory.
• Bikes parked out front mean good chicken-fried steak inside.
• Born to ride my Harley...
  Forced to work!
• Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at 70 mph can double your vocabulary.
• A cold hamburger can be reheated quite nicely by strapping it to an exhaust pipe and riding forty miles.
• Don't argue with a 18-wheeler.
• Don't lead the pack if you don't know where you're going.
• Don't ride so late into the night that you sleep through the sunrise.
• Four wheels move the body, Two wheels move the soul.
• A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2 a.m. to drive his pickup to the middle of nowhere to get you when you're broken down.
• A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith - and use up a lot of fuel.
• Got a $5 head? Get a $5 helmet.
• Gray-haired riders don't get that way from pure luck.
• Home is where your bike sits still long enough to leave a few drops of oil on the ground.
• If she changes her oil more than she changes her mind - follow her.
• If the person in the next lane at the stoplight rolls up the window and locks the door, support their view of life by snarling at them.
• If you can read this...she fell off! (seen on the back of a t-shirt)
• If you don't ride in the rain - you don't ride.
• If you ride like there's no tomorrow - there might not be.
• If you want to get somewhere before sundown, you can't stop at every tavern.
• If you want to ride a couch...stay home.
• Keep your bike in good repair: Motorcycle boots are NOT comfortable for walking.
• Learning to do counter-intuitive things may someday save your butt.
• Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.
• A motorcycle can't sing on the streets of a city.
• Never argue with a woman holding a torque wrench.
• Never do less than forty miles before breakfast.
• Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town.
• Ninety eight percent of all Harleys ever sold are still on the road. The other two percent made it home.
• The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rearview mirror.
• Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you'll ride alone.
• Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
• Seen on motorcycle rearview mirror - Warning: objects in mirror are disappearing rapidly.
• Sometimes it takes a whole tankful of fuel before you can think straight.
• Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
• There are drunk riders. There are old riders. There are NO old, drunk riders.
• There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
• Thin leather looks good in the bar, but it won't save you from "road rash" if you go down.
• To ride or not to ride...THAT is a stupid question!
• Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude.
• What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor. (David Perry)
• What does a Harley and hound dog have in common? They both spend most of their time in the back of a pickup truck.
  What differentiates the two? The hound dog can get in and out of the pickup under his own power.
• When you look down the road, it seems to never end – but you better believe it does.
• You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.
• Young riders pick a destination and go...Old riders pick a direction and go.

Page Ideas

• Make an enlarged color copy of a picture that is "faded" or lighter in color and used that as the background, instead of colored paper. I have also done this with a map of where we traveled. Put the pics on top and it makes a beautiful picture. (e.g. enlarged photos of mountains in Colorado when we traveled in the mountain area). You can also make die cuts of the various states you travel through.
• Cut out the Harley logo from various places, or you can color copy patches or something like that. Use that in your layouts.
• Drawn roads, tire tracks, etc. with the pens to connect pictures across a 2-page spread, or more pages continuing together.
• You can just use black and orange paper that will enhance the "Harley" theme.
• I've cut out a side view silhouette of us on a Harley, put it in the lower left corner of the page, and drawn "streams" to show movement all across the bottom.
• For racing, make a checker for a flag out of square of paper. It can be a background or smaller taking up a quarter of a page.
• Find some motorcycle clip art and use this as a guide to create your own simple die-cut.
• Page border designs, such as: A border around your page that looks like a "chain"; motorcycle wheels in each corner; simple swirls that look like pin striping, or copy what is on the motorcycle if any.
• The American flag/red, white and blue colors! This is a good one for motorcycle runs such as benefit runs.
• Color copy a bandanna or denim for a background. Fabric copies beautifully.
• Take a small toy motorcycle - run the tires across a pigma ink pad or color on the tires with your calli pen and then run it across the page to make "tire tracks" - looks cool.