From Here to There
Description: A flat, single-color black vector design features a long horizontal bicycle chain rendered with rounded links and circular pin details, stretching across the…
Description: A flat, single-color black vector design features a long horizontal bicycle chain rendered with rounded links and circular pin details, stretching across the…
Description: A flat, single-color black vector illustration presents a clean, minimalist bicycle with upright handlebars, a step-through-adjacent frame shape, and simple spoked wheels, drawn…
Description: A flat, single-color black vector illustration depicts a simplified fixie-style bicycle with flat handlebars, a straight-cut fork, and a minimalist triangular frame, drawn…
Description: A bold single-color silhouette illustration renders a classic road bike in solid black line art, showing drop handlebars, a diamond frame, and skinny…
Ride Forever sprinter: Rider with the ability to generate very high power over short periods (a few seconds to a minute) allowing for great…
Ride Bikes rotating weight: Weight (more correctly mass) that is rotating while the bike is moving, particularly the wheels. Mass near the outside edge…
Ride follow a wheel: The ability to follow a wheel is the ability to match the pace of riders who are setting the tempo.…
Granny gear: The lowest available front and rear chainrings… think about the gear you need to keep riding instead of walking up a mountain…
Singletrack: Mountain biking gold (as opposed to doubletrack trash – a jeep like road or trail), a trail just wide enough for one person…
You Know What Lies Outside Of Your Comfort Zone? Opportunity. Door zone: The space right next to the parked car lane. To avoid the hazard…
Saddle sores: A chamois can only do so much to ward off leg-to-seat chaffing. The up-and-down pedaling may bestow sores in the nether-regions —…
Clip-ins: Clip-ins (aka step-ins and clipless pedals) are a type of bike pedal that lock onto the cleat of a special cycling shoe so…
Not All who Wander are Lost Fully loaded touring Also known as self-supported touring, cyclists carry everything they need, including food, cooking equipment, and…
bonk: n., v. cycling’s classic term for blowing up, hitting the wall, or otherwise expiring in midride. Can be caused by — and is…
It never gets easier, you just go faster. aero-bars n. handlebar extension which rests the hands close together over the front hub, which is…
Meach Cycles Chicago VO: the maximum amount of oxygen that can be consumed during all-out exertion. This is a key indicator of a person’s…
May Use Full Lane – Get Over It ultra cycling: used to describe the side of the sport involving the longest endurance events. Also…
hamstrings: the muscle on the back of the thigh, not well developed by cycling.
glycogen: a fuel derived as glucose (sugar) from carbohydrate and stored in the muscles and liver. It’s the primary energy source for high-intensity cycling.…
aerodynamic: a design of cycling equipment or a riding position that reduces wind resistance; aero for short.
I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task – when my heart…
Living with a Bicycle Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it,…
Live to Ride Ride to Live Should I take off my helmet before I make love? I’d better not, because my bicycle’s breaks are…
Live Love Ride His voice was so gravelly I could drive a truck on it. And I would have, but I came carrying my…
You Own a Car, Not the Road I took the wheels of my bike off in support of your bicycle race to support bike…
I have too many bikes, yeah right! Having sex on a motorcycle wouldn’t only be exciting, it’d be dangerous. What if while we were…
Work Sucks! I’m going riding… Somebody took my bicycle tire, my bicycle seat, and both my pedals. They stole my whole unicycle! – Jarod…
Weight Weenie I hit a car, but it wasn’t my fault. The bicyclist who rear ended me is to blame. – Jarod Kintz
A Day Without Cycling is a Wasted Day I’m not a bicycle. Don’t try to ride me and leave me in the garage. I’m…
Velorution But I pushed and pulled in vain, the wheels would not turn. It was as though the brakes were jammed, and heaven knows…
Bicycle – The brand is not important, the fact that you ride is! I work at a newspaper. I’m not a journalist; I’m a…
Travel Together Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Take a Ride with Me I’d rather ride two unicycles at the same time than one bicycle twice – Jarod Kintz
I like your even more, when I found out that you ride a sweet-ass bicycle. I left my youth behind me. It peddled the…
Smash Your Television Go Ride a Bike The fastest I’ve ever fallen in love is 17 miles per hour. But I was safe, because…
Slipstreaming The process whereby a rider reduces their wind resistance by sheltering behind another rider.
Same Roads, Same Rules, Same Rights “You know, bicycling isn’t just a matter of balance,” I said. “it’s a matter of faith. You can…
Rule # 12 The correction number of bicycles to own is n+1.
I’m lucky that mountian biking wasn’t around when I was 20, because I wouldn’t have won the Tour de France. It’s my kind of…
Ride Longer, Live Longer I’m fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to ge to the finish, they hang…
Ride it, like you stole it. A mountain bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the…
Ride He’s dancing on the pedals in an immodest way! – Phil Liggett
What was supposed to be a summer of fun on the bike turned into a year, then two years. It certainly wasn’t a calculated…
Ride Bicycles Winning never gets repetitive – Mat “Cashmoney” Glaser
Ride You not bike rider, you nobody. – Eddie B
Put the fun between your legs. When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze,…
I’m a pedestrian, cyclist and motorist, but only a potential killer in my car. – Anonymous
You are only one bicycle ride away from a good mood. When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a…
Every Day is a Bicycle Day There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; In this…
Cycling makes women fresher in mind and body, and renders them far more companionable than the bloodless, limp, namby-pamby damsels who occasionally indulge in…
Love Bicycle Every so often a bird gets up and flies some place that it’s drawn to. I don’t suppose it could tell you…
Let’s Go Ride A stationary bike is a device that epitomizes the phrase “hurry up and wait.” – Jarod Kintz
Legs Speak Louder Than Words Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence…
Just Tour Pain is a big fat creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier he feels. The harder you push,…
Just Tour There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to…
There’s a lot more pressure when you’re a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so…
Ironsteed The riders come out, knights for the tournament, neck to thigh in slippery lycra with the sheen of deep space condoms, faired helmets…
If you were a spectator on one of the mountain passes today, the super-light bikes would be little different in appearance from the machines…
The bitterness of poor quality remain long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. – Lance Armstrong
Bicycle Everyday I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore. – Eddy Merckx
Do You Cycle? There was a second supremely sweet moment of victory. As I made my way through the finish area, I passed the…
Pain is a big fat creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier he feels. The harder you push, the tighter…
Cycling is forever Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the…
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn’t work that…
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle…
I have too many bikes, yeah right! What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without…
The Bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world’s most complicated problems.
Same Roads Same Rules Same Rights It was eleven more than necessary. – Jacques Anquetil
Ride Like the Wind When Lance first turned professional, it was like trying to put a hand brake on a raging bull. – Paul…
The reason Armstrong has become the world’s most indomitable cyclist and America’s greatest athlete is two-pronged: He has both the physiology and the passion…
Love Cycling The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it. – Doug…
I bicycle life The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it. –…
It’s the first machine we master as children and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over. – Colman Mc…
Death to Bicycle Thieves A bicycle hides nothing and threatens nothing. It is what it does, its form is its function. – Stewart Parker
I live it A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
The bicycle is ergonomically tailored to the human form and psyche, yet I wonder if a hithero ‘undiscovered’ native tribe, when presented with a…
Ride Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. – Keith Bontrager
The Bicycle, built for the toughest race of all, the human race. So perfect is the safety bicycle, that, if the rider had sufficient…
Breakway A cyclist or group of cyclists who split off the front of a Peloton are referred to as a Breakaway.
Hey diddle, diddle The bicycle riddle The strangest part of the deal. Just keep your accounts And add the amounts The ‘sundries’ cost more…
Born to Ride but Forced to Work There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in…
Swim Bike Run Cleaning a bike’s like cleaning a toilet. If you do it regularly, it’s fine and easy. If you wait, it’s a…
Good Few people realize that when you move the seatpost an innocent inch or two you are changing the action of every muscle in…
Bike Love found a whole philosophy of life in the wooing and winning of my bicycle. – Frances Willard
Bike Lane, Bikes Only I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle. – Zen proverb
More than any other emotion, melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. – James E. Starrs
The only regret I have in my life is never learning to ride a bicycle. – Helen Hayes
Such historians as record the tides of social manners and morals, have neglected the bicycle. – John Galsworthy
Slow Bicycle Society Is it not time we stopped riding our bikes and began to drive them? Similarly, who ever drove a car? We…
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work…
Ride Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal…
Cycling is the sport of usefulness. – Fred DeLong
You haven’t lived until you’ve put on a police uniform and hopped on a mountain bike. My daily commute became four to five minutes…
When one compares the energy consumed in moving a certain distance as a function of body weight fot a variety of animals and machines,…
The Bicycle is the common man among vehicles. – James E. Starrs
RIDE, drink, sleep, repeat Women cyclist cannot protect their chastity. – District Governor of Ramasar, Iran
May Use Full Lane I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet…
Always live on the bike side of life. Cyclist are open-minded. Cyclist are egalitarian. Cyclist share a fellowship of the wheel that can overcome…
Cycling is much more fun than dating….I still get to chase women, and sometimes catch them. But, when I get dropped, at least there…