General Cycling Discussion - what are your favorite bicycle quotes?

Hey everybody i was just wondering what everyone's favorite bike quotes are. Please leave me posts :)

"I thought of that while riding my bike."
Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

-- Irina Dunn

see: Steinem misquote (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html)

'Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you survive.'
-Mark Twain

"Shut up and bike"

me

"it never gets easier, you just get faster"-
greg lemond

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

-- Irina Dunn

see: Steinem misquote (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html)

So have you seen the Gary Fisher logo with the fish riding a bicycle? I love it!

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." By the man himself LA!

"If you can finish a race, there is no reason you cant win it" ~scott fader. He is a guy at my lbs who races cat 2 and used to race cat 1. I dont think it was intended to be like a quote but it is very inspirational.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." By the man himself LA!
That's the one I was going to use.....actually I "heard" it here at BF - it was in somebody's sig.

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades." - The Cannibal, Mr. Eddy Merckx

Not exactly my favourite but one of the funniest.


I'm riding a unicycle with my pants down! This should be every boy's dream!

haha the simpsons

I want my two dollars!

There's no quotes of the episode, but I always find it amusing that Albert Hoffman (http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/hofmann_albert/hofmann_albert.shtml) had the first "trip" (accidental) on a bicycle.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard

Heh, I have that on my webpage.

Here lies the body of Edward Grey,
Who died defending his right of way
He was right, dead right, as he pedalled along
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong

slight misquote/amendment of an original pome

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

"Put me back on my bike"

T.S.

"Put me back on the bloody bike!" -- Tom Simpson

on edit: Hey! You beat me!

Not sure where I heard it but.....

"Ride it like you stole it"

"Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles."
-Edward Abbey

unx_power that would be from Lance Armstrong talking to Floyd Landis in the 2004 Tour de France (not sure which stage)

"Santa, where's me fu*king bike"
-Roy "Chubby" Brown

"I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and
Things to make it look good.

I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it."

sparknote_s: thanks, I didn't know where I heard but knew I thought it was funny.

Why have a quote, the freedom that comes from riding is better then words.............

I've first heard it mentioned on these forums. Not sure where it originated.
"It never gets easier, you just get faster". Or something like that.

unx_pwr beat me to it too, and I also didn't know it was a Lance-ism.

I also like "I can't go on...I will go on" which is someone's sig on here.

Hey, Somebodies, where's your sig from? I like it! Sounds a bit like "The Green Mile", but I don't really think so.

Dang! You got shocks, pegs... lucky! You ever take it off any sweet jumps?..

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle. -- Michael Palin

"We're almost there..."

From Breaking Away

"Cyril: Hey! Are you really gonna shave your legs?
Dave: Certo! All the Italians do it.
Mike: Ah. Some country. The women don't shave theirs "

"Mom: What's the matter?
Dad: He's shavin'.
Mom: Well... so what?
Dad: ...his legs. "

"Moocher: Hey, come on in, Dave.
Dave: Nah, I read where this Italian coach said its no good to go swimmin' right after a race.
Mike: Who's swimmin'? I'm takin' a leak. "

Hey, Somebodies, where's your sig from? I like it! Sounds a bit like "The Green Mile", but I don't really think so.

Its a Pink Floyd song...the whole thing really, called "Bike" you should listen to it if you haven't heard it.

Not sure where I heard it but.....

"Ride it like you stole it"

Lance apparently said something like that to Floyd Landis during the '04 TdF.

I happen to be fond of:



"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." HG Wells

Ride lots

Eddie Merckx

"Cooked in the kitchen!"
-Raul Alcala

"Light, cheap, strong... pick two" - Keith Bontrager (I think)

Its a Pink Floyd song...the whole thing really, called "Bike" you should listen to it if you haven't heard it.

Thanks! I'll go search my vinyl. I know I've got some Floyd lurking in there!

"A patch, a patch, my kingdom for a patch!"

--Shakespoke, "King Richard III", revised version

For the want of a patch a kingdom was lost, eh Cyclepath?

"Here lies Lester Moore
Shot dead with a .44
No Les
No more"

Ooops! Not a cycling quote. It's on a headstone I once saw in the old Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, AZ. :D

Cycling related: "Ride first. Work later." :)

I happen to be fond of: "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." HG Wells --- That is a great quotation but there is no proof that HG Wells said it. I have searched out every source I can find and even exchanged a series of emails with the HG Wells Society in England (www.hgwellsusa.50megs.com/UK/index.html) but NO one can cite an original source document for that quotation.

"Ride me baby, ride me fast and hard, you good looking athletic stud you" (my bike) ;)

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller

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Maybe not cycling per se...

Lewis Carroll said it best: "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of mankind" - H.G. Wells

My favorite has to be from Ben Cousins' post (http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=1313416&postcount=23) in the thread about everyone's favorite Phil Liggett phrase. The quote is:
"The morning of the Paris-Roubaix one year, I woke to find the Italian legend Ballerini riding around the car park on my power purple Pocket Rocket Pro. He was obviously impressed!"
(It's much funnier with the picture that accompanies it in the post)