Matthew McKeown
5 min readMar 27, 2021

Why Ride?

When motorcycles weren’t common and started to take over, the image of the biker was cast with a long shadow of opinions and judgment. The tough guy, dawning his leather, even in summer, clunking away with the knocks of his heels from his boots on the asphalt, throwing his leg over his machine that roared and made a mother pull her kids closer. But that isn’t the case. Motorcycles have been classified as dangerous since their genesis, and to be fair, they are. When you’re…