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As much as this is a 11 year old thread it is a good one at least.
One of my favorites has always been this one:
“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.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
One of my favorites has always been this one:
“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.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Changeable gears are a delusion. They will always be complicated and of very little use.” - Albert Overman, Victor bicycle company, 1896
"A variable gear is desirable on the machine to help cope with gradients if cycling is to become a popular pastime and not simply the plaything of health and physical fitness addicts." Frank Bowden, Raleigh bicycle company and a few years later, Sturmey-Archer,1896
"A variable gear is desirable on the machine to help cope with gradients if cycling is to become a popular pastime and not simply the plaything of health and physical fitness addicts." Frank Bowden, Raleigh bicycle company and a few years later, Sturmey-Archer,1896
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A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths, and the moon was at the full. - Sherlock Holmes "The Mystery of the Priory School"
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“I want to see the world. Follow a map to its edges, and keep going. Forgo the plans. Trust my instincts. Let curiosity be my guide. I want to change hemispheres. Sleep with unfamiliar stars, and let the journey unfold before me.”
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If roads exist, we should ride them. Lael Wilcox
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I remember bicycling through West Africa and, having ridden beyond tourist accommodations, having to camp in rural villages. It was then I realized that I had more stuff on my bike than the entire village possessed. The self-inflating sleeping pad, the tent, the magical fire-making machine, medical supplies, and tools, not to mention the electronics, most of which I kept hidden. And this was on my bicycle. - Carla King
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'That the universal agreement has fixed on 70 cm as the proper size for wheels does not in anyway prove that this diameter is best. It simply proves that cyclists follow each other like sheep.’ - Paul De Vivie
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“Impress on your memory the roads and paths, villages and towns, outstanding church towers and other landmarks so that your will not forget them. Make a note of the names of places, rivers, seas and mountains. Perhaps you may be able to utilise these sometime for the benefit of the Fatherland . Should you come to a bridge which interests you, examine the construction and the materials used. Learn to measure and estimate the width of streams. Wade through fords so that you will be able to find them in the dark.” - advice to German youth cycletouring outside the country, German Cyclist magazine, German National Union for Physical Culture 1937
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"It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheel." - Heinz Stücke
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"The really successful lightweight cycletourist is one whose pack shrinks every year and whose enjoyment increases in ratio with every vanished ounce." Brian Walker
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"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 1895
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"Some people suppress their inner child. I got mine a bicycle." - Yehuda Moon
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"The best things in life are free - a bed in God's great out-of-doors, fresh air, sunshine, moonlight raining down from a cloudless sky, wind rustling in the palms, waters lapping the river banks, frogs croaking, birds singing, the laughter and gaiety of children, the joyous companionship of your bicycle! Nothing is finer in a foreign land than a friend to share your joys and make them double; and your sorrows and make them half. This is true, even if your friend be only a bicycle." - Fred Birchmore
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"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." - President John F. Kennedy
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“Shut up legs!” - Jens Voigt
”It doesn’t get any easier, you just go faster.” - Greg LeMond
”It doesn’t get any easier, you just go faster.” - Greg LeMond
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“Oh man, someone or something just keep stealing my baby bike bolts, no idea why but after some day one bolt was missing.”—thinh_zipp93
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When I race at the velodrome, any time someone asked for last minute advice before a race, the reply would be "Go fast. Turn left."
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It's like riding a bicycle
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"Well I was being paid."
Andy Hampsten at the first Eroica CA when asked how he was able to force himself to keep going up, over and down the Gavia in a blizzard.
Andy Hampsten at the first Eroica CA when asked how he was able to force himself to keep going up, over and down the Gavia in a blizzard.
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You see whenever I'm alone
I tend to brood
But when I'm out on my bike
It's a different mood
I leave my brain at home
Get up on the saddle
No hanging around
I don't diddle-daddle
Luka Bloom- "The Acoustic Motorbike"
I tend to brood
But when I'm out on my bike
It's a different mood
I leave my brain at home
Get up on the saddle
No hanging around
I don't diddle-daddle
Luka Bloom- "The Acoustic Motorbike"
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Come on, people…
“Dial it up to 400 watts and drope the hamer.”—Unknown
“Dial it up to 400 watts and drope the hamer.”—Unknown
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