Cycling quotes

These are cycling quotes I have found around the place.


 * Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.


 * 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.


 * The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.


 * I thought of [the ] while riding my bicycle.


 * The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.


 * Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.


 * Let's have a minute's silence for all those Americans who are currently stuck in traffic on the way to the gym to ride a stationary bicycle.


 * As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got he bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.


 * 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.


 * Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.


 * Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires.


 * Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.


 * Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym.


 * The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.


 * A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun., "On Bicycling," Saturday Evening Post, 29 July 1967


 * Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.


 * 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.


 * Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.


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


 * Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government. Anon (from NL)