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Adventure Motorcycling
“An exploration of an emergent sporting subculture”
Matt Healey Head of Learning and Adventure – Inspiring Learning
SELF
ENVIRONMENTOTHERS
Relationships in Outdoor PedagogyRelationships in Outdoor Pedagogy
“The active phase involves trying or experimenting and the passive entails reflecting on what was done. If reflection does not take place, then according to Dewey, it is a blind experience”
(Wurdinger, 1997. p.11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aST1htAkJlo
“The special few who understand the jargon, the machines, who brave the wrath of the law to experience the thrill of subjugating the open road to your mechanical horsepower, shrinking of time and space while savouring the perfume of new mown hay.” (Holmes 2007 p.9) Emphasis mine
“All you have to do is pedal until the engine goes off and then steer it down the road, missing teams and street cars and small houses as long as you can. You increase the speed by turning one handle and control the spark by turning the other, brake with your right hand, work the clutch with your left, and keep track of your oil and gasoline and electricity with the rest of your hands”
(Anon. 1913 article cited in Holbrook-Pierson 1997 p.65)
“When my mood gets too hot… I pull out
my motorbike and hurl it top-speed through
these unfit roads for hour after hour”
(T.E Lawrence Quoted in Bishop 2005. p.176)
Mr Khrushchev dismissed the exhibits and said:
"You Americans expect that the Soviet people will be amazed. It is not so. We have all these things in our new flats."
Mr Nixon replied:
"We do not claim to astonish the Soviet people. We hope to show our right to choose. We do not wish to have decisions made at the top by government officials who say that all homes should be built in the same way."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/24/newsid_2779000/2779551.stm
“From that moment everyone new who it was roaring through the streets at night, standing on street corners loudly yelling at the others whilst firing up his engine, attracting all those young girls and lying there in the ditch at the side of the road bleeding from a broken skull after some disastrous high speed manoeuvre. It was the Skinnknutte.”
(Lagergren 2007 p.3)
“an awareness of pain or danger without being in such circumstances.”
(McNamee 2007: p155) Emphasis added
“Journalists in particular are fond of the "adrenaline junkie" theory, which labels outdoor adventurers as "sensation seekers", "thrill types", and "endorphin addicts", gambling with their lives for ever greater levels of excitement and stimulation (Schueller, 2000; Vidal, 1999).
“What we first hear is never noises or complexes of sounds but the creaking wagon, the motorcycle”
(Heidegger 1927)
Flow, Edgework and AdventureFlow, Edgework and Adventure
“ I lost all track of time as I concentrated on reading the trail in front of me, keeping momentum through soft sand sections and looking far ahead for river bed crossings and places where the
piste has been washed away by the flash floods that seem incongruous in such a dry place.”
“the darkness is almost absolute and I experience a
sensation I have encountered before during
long endurance rides. Disconcertingly it feels as
though my hands are on the wrong arms. Right hand
holding left handlebar and vice versa.”
TechnologyTechnology
“It was a still, warm and starry night and although I was frustrated by my own lack
of craftsmanship I was masochistically enjoying myself too.”
“If you give a young boy a hammer for the first time and watch his face you will
see an awareness of this burden dawning on him (as he turns to the cat,
for example).”
(Crawford, M. 2009. p.193)
Consumption and Sub cultureConsumption and Sub culture“The process of packing a motorcycle is practically, but also
symbolically like packing a horse. I reflected that it is no coincidence that one of my motorcycling heroes, who has twice navigated around the globe on a motorcycle similar to the ones
Ellen and I chose, is also a leading expert on Spaghetti Westerns!”
“The light fades as we pulled into Ouzazate, the dust filled streets adding to the fantasy
that we are 4 cowboys heading into town in the Wild
West.”.
“I think this form of sport has an immense future before it, as large as in its way as the car part of the movement. The control over time and space and the exhilarating sense of power, so dear to the heart of the sportsman, have a fascination… I think that time will show that the car for old age and comfort and the skeleton single track machine for speed and youth will undoubtedly be the two divisions of automobilism”
(Motorcycling and Motor Magazine 1902. Anon - cited in Holmes 2007 p.6)
Matt Healey MA,LPIOL, FRSA
Head of Learning and Adventure – Inspiring Learning
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