AEROSMITH singer Steven Tyler spoke with Bryan Harley from Motorcycle-usa.com about, you guessed it, motorcycles. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Motorcycle USA: We’re here and we’d like to talk a little about Steven’s newest venture, Dirico Motorcycles. He’s actually gone in with Stephen Talarico and Mark Dirico and started up a new motorcycle company here in the great North East. So, I’m sure a lot of people want to know, why a motorcycle company, with everything else you’ve got going on?

Steven Tyler: "Well, you know, I don’t get much of a chance to get off and be by myself, and the best way to spell freedom is motorcycle. You get on a bike and just take off and you don’t have to sign autographs and you can just be with your bad-ass self and God above and the great outdoors. I always had a hankerin’ for a bicycle with a motor on it, from the time I was five…"

Motorcycle USA: What got you into motorcycling, ‘cause I know you’ve been riding forever?

Steven Tyler: "Just all my life I’d get on my mini-bike and go up on the aqueduct and go through the woods and it was a good reason to get away. We did a gig for Willie Davidson and he gave the band five Fat Boys and so I started putting this and that on it, and when Mark started adding things to the frame that he got at Steve’s place, once we got our VIN number, we were off and running (laughs). So you know, it’s just nothing but fun."

Motorcycle USA: So do you have a favorite motorcycling moment?

Steven Tyler: "Let me see, I’m still picking some gravel out of my teeth from last summer, but, umm, no, I’ve done acrobats with my girlfriend on it that I really don’t want to talk about here, but mostly it’s just good to get off and get away and have a moment with the Big One above."

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