Bicycle Quotes

• “To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain. Sure the sport is fun, with it’s seamless pacelines and secret singletrack, it’s post-ride pig-outs and soft muscles grown wonderfully hard. But at cycling’s core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you’re missing the essence of the sport. Without pain, there’s no adversity. Without adversity, no challenge. Without challenge, no improvement. No improvement, no sense of accomplishment and no deep-down joy. Might as well be playing Tiddly-Winks.” ~ Scott Martin
• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.  Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man.  And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became.  Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others.  Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.  ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills
• The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple.  The slower you go the more likely it is you’ll crash.  ~Julie Furtado
• 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, The Quotable Cyclist
• …and the Lord said unto Eddy “The road to my kingdom shall be ridden in thy big ring. Do not be tempted by the song of the 39, for that is the true number of the beast.” Hearing that, he rose from the saddle and smote thine enemies.
• Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain, Taming the Bicycle
• A fat man on a bicycle is nobody’s enemy. ~Tom Vernon.
• I hosed it down with simple green and I’m pretty sure that thwarts any impending infection ~unknown
• I am an air-cooled, two-piston, carburetted, biofuel machine. In my wake I leave wind, sweat, scorched earth and shattered mountains. I Ride ~unknown
• When the gas finally runs out, even the thickest petroleum addict knows that he and his land yacht will follow the dinosaurs into the tar pits of history. Seconds after the final gallon of gas becomes the last gasp of blue smoke from a tailpipe, hordes of vengeful cyclists will descent mercilessly upon these dethroned kings of the road, spiriting their wives and children away in BOB trailers to heavily fortified organic bean-sprout farms where they will toil without respite as concubines, serfs, and business-journal editors. ~Patrick O’Grady, Bicycle Retailer & Industry news, May 1, 2007
• I didn’t notice any difference, really. because I’m a machine and I never, ever stop pedaling, free or fixed. ever. so its like, what’s the difference? except when i ride fixed, its always at top speed, every pedal stroke of the way, so its a better workout than a ss ride. because there’s no such thing as slowly pedaling a fixed. And I’m never one with my bike. I beat it like a horse. (anon. in reference to riding fixed vs. free)