Bike Forums - bike quotes

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
- Sherlock Holmes

When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you’re not riding hard.
- President George

An engineer designing from scratch could hardly concoct a better device to unclog modern roads - cheap, nonpolluting, small and silent…
- Rick Smith

It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
- Anonymous

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.
- Ann Strong

I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft…As for me, give me a fixed gear!
- Henri Desgrange

f you were a spectator on one of the mountain passes today, the super-light bikes would be little different in appearance from the machines of years ago, pedaled by earlier heroes, Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, LeMond, Roche. They would look like the bikes our dads rode when we were kids. But the Tour is a commercial race, and innovation must be given its place on the catwalk, or in this case the vélodrome….
- James Waddington

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.
- Bill Strickland

Cycling to work is an important issue for business – the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.
- Sir Digby Jones

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
- Jacquie Phelan

Devised almost 200 years ago by a practical German baron, the bicycle has evolved into an urban staple. Beloved of children, prized by inner-city commuters, it can be a lifesaver when summer smog chokes the nation
- Anonymous

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
- Ernest Hemingway

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
- Iris Murdoch

Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.
- Lord Charles Beresford

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells

If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn’t get so many punctures. Earth’s revenge.
- Jo Burt

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
- Lance Armstrong

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Lord Charles Beresford

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
- Louis J. Helle

As a social revolutionizer, the bicycle has never had an equal. It has put the human race on wheels, and thus changed completely many of the most ordinary processes and methods of social life. It is the great leveler, for not till all Americans got on bicycles was the great American principle that every man is just as good as any other man fully realized. All are on equal terms, all are happier than ever before
- New York Evening Post

Consider a man riding a bicycle.Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move.We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it.That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
- William Golding

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you’ll crash.
- Julie Furtado

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds.A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock.A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock.A fifty-pound bicycle doesn’t need a lock.
- Anonymous

I’ve been mountain biking, the more I see myself as a female. In letting your femininity go to become a mountain biker, you actually find it more.
- Niki Gudex

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me
- John Howard

Get a bicycle.You will not regret it if you live.
- Mark Twain

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
- Sloan Wilson

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