Jun 15, 2010
Regardless of the motorcycle your riding currently, music can make your “2 wheel” experience not only seem shorter (or longer based on the quality of the music), but it can also engage and integrate us even more into the motorcycle riding experience. I guess you could say a more “mental” or “cerebral” experience. At least that was our experience, having taken a cross country ride a few months back from Florida to SoCal. From first hand experience there seemed to be some mental engagement with my bike as well as the surroundings as i twisted the throttle a little harder listening to The Pretenders or Arlo Guthrie sing about riding, girls and life. The benefits of having some good tunes to pass the time while on those desolate and lonely stretches we encountered (i.e. TX, NM and Nevada) can’t be discounted either. 
Granted, for the sake of the general publics safety we did keep our singing voice inside our helmet. Anyway, this little jaunt across the USA and using our iPod for the first time stated us thinking, “what songs have the words “motorcycle” in them?“. So, here is what we found. If you know others we haven’t identified, tell us so we can add them to our iPod. Thanks to the guys over at “Bikes in the Fast Lane” for some of these.
- The Motorcycle Song by Arlo Guthrie
- Motorcycle Song by Billy Joel
- Motorcycle Man by Saxon
- Motorcycle Ride by Rancid
- Motorcycle Mama by Neil Young
- Motorcycle by Iggy Pop
- Motorcycle by Love and Rockets
- Motorcycle Rider by The Icicle Works
- Speeding Motorcycle by Yo La Tengo
- Get On Dis Motorcycle by Petey Pablo
- Harley by the Jacksons (5)
- Haley’s Got A Harley by 38 Special
- Biker by Pretenders
- Gypsy Biker by Bruce Springstreen
- Motorcycle Emptiness by Manic Street Preachers
- Jeans On by Keith Urban
- Hot Girls by INXS
- Harleys & Indians (Riders In The Sky) by Roxette
- Unknown Legend by Neil Young
- Leader Of The Pack by Bette Midler
- Roll Me Away by Bob Seger
- Sweet Hitchhiker by CC
- Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson
- Motorbikin by Chris Spedding
