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0418 – Bicycle Heart
Ask a scientist to design a better violin and you get a dirty look. While the instrument seems simple, the science behind it is not. Such is bicycle stability. The machine appears uncomplicated but the theories governing its motion are nightmarish. Some things just can’t be easily defined by physics and mathmatics. The interaction of […]
0472 – Fast Folks
Fast Folks I’m gonna show you a hill that would choke a mule. – President George W. Bush
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0638 – Bicycle Ride
Ride follow a wheel: The ability to follow a wheel is the ability to match the pace of riders who are setting the tempo. Following is easier than pulling or setting the tempo and the term can be used in a derogatory manner, e.g. “He only ever followed”
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0210 – Cars vs Bicycles
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. – Christopher Morley
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0134 – Before the Down
Before the Down 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
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0355 – Rough Riding
Racing is one facet of the sport of cycling, but not every ride has to be a race. Yehuda seems to have been born knowing this; I learned it that long-ago day in May; and Joe has yet to realize the fact that the ride itself is the reason to ride. – Bicycling Bill
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0493 – I Wheelie Like You
I Wheelie Like You 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 plan to have a career as a cyclist. – Derek Bouchard-Hall
0641 – Ride Bicycles Company
Ride Bicycles Company pump: colloquial verb meaning to give a second person a ride on a bicycle, also known as giving a hike. The passenger may balance on the handlebars or the seat, while the biker stands to pedal.[
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0107 Moutain Bike Racer
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 […]
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0345 – Love You Bicycle
Love You Bicycle Cycling has encountered more enemies than any other form of exercise. – Louis Baudry de Saunier
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0151 – Tandem Bicycle Pleasures
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. […]
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0113 – Crank It Hard
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. – Bob Weir
0449 – Sun Rides
Sun Rides What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn’t seem to matter what sport it was–in a straight-ahead, […]
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0184 – Bicycle Security
Security Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring. – Desmond Tutu
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0484 – Doing What You Cannot Do
The greatest pleasure is life is doing what people say you cannot do. We know that the rider was provoked, but we are forced to apply the regulations. That involves a fine and the immediate exclusion from the race. The gesture is inexcusable. – Giro d’Italia’s Race Jury President
0533 – Ride Bicycle Company
Ride Bicycle Company To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain….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 […]
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0179 – Ride
Ride Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. – George Plimpton
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0124 – Bicycle Doctor
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life. – Frances Willard
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0476 – Fuck Off! It’s My Lane Too
Fuck Off! It’s My Lane Too But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn’t racing. Life is the metaphor for the race. – Donald Antrim
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0040 – Bike Life
I find buying a bicycle is a great way to stay in touch with people. – Jan Chipchase
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0334 – Facebook Handlebars
I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world. – Mark Cavendish
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0169 – Bicycle Nomenclature
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you’ll crash. – Julie Furtado
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0032 – Smashed One
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles M. Schulz
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0244 – Bicycle inside a Cog
Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless. – Zapata Espinoza
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0216 – Bike Walk
Bike Walk What’s with these recumbent bicycles? Listen, buddy, if you wanna take a nap, lie down. If you wanna ride a bike, buy a bicycle. – George Carlin
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0556 – Smash Your TV
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 I was wearing a bicycle helmet at the time. – Jarod Kintz
0232 – Chain Breaker
Chain Breaker She who succeeds in gaining the master of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. – Frances E. Willard
0537 – Brake from Riding
Ride 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 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 […]
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0494 – Just Tour
Just Tour There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb […]
0167 – Cycle Maintenance Handbook
Cycle Maintenance Handbook You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you’re having a good day. – Daniel Behrman
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0174 – Bicycle Maintenance
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. – Grant Petersen
0128 – Always Wear A Helmet
Always Wear A Helmet 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
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0561 – Ride with Me
Take a Ride with Me I’d rather ride two unicycles at the same time than one bicycle twice – Jarod Kintz
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0067 – Solution – Pollution
Solution – Pollution It’s almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It’s silly, but it works. – […]
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0568 – Wasted Day
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 a treadmill. Walk on me and leave me in a guest room. – Jarod Kintz
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0351 – Iron Steed
Iron Steed I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list…. That didn’t look so good, but then someone at Scientific […]
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0363 – Girl on Bike
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget. – Mario Cipollini
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0139 – Chain Whip
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. – James E. Starrs
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0513 – Nothing Compares
Nothing Compare to the simple please of a Bicycle ride.
0001 – Cool Cycling
Cool Cycling The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. – Guy […]
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0649 – Ride Hard
Ride Hard turn: A turn is a rider sharing the workload on a pace line “he took a turn” or “he is doing a lot of turns on the front”. Missing turns can be expressed thus “he has missed a few turns now and has stopped working”. In a breakaway the riders expect to share […]
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0017 – Bob Wier on Bicycles
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. – Bob Weir
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0239 – Bicycle of the Heart
Who am I? Where am I? Oh yes – I’m at the Tour, so I should get on my bike and go. Where is my bike? – Djamolidin Abdujaparov’s
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0309 – Watch Out for Bicycles
Since the bicycle make little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines. – Stuart S Wilson
0258 – Crank It
Crank It The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it’s fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it’s not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it. – Stephen G. Breyer
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0348 – Sad While Cycling
Impossible to stay sad while riding a bicycle He always moans on about drivers being attacked. We should be hounding them even more – cars have no place in an urban environment. – John Grimshaw
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0063 – Super Bicycle Man
Super Bicycle Man I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It’s important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing. – Cecilia Bartoli
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0031 – Bicycle Skeleton
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side – which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress. – Drew Barrymore
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0256 – Country Ride
Country Ride A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke. – Scott Stoll
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0316 – Got It
Given the remarkable growth in support for gays and lesbians, I think there is a chance that recumbent might someday be accepted. – RAAM rider
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0589 – Love Me, Love My Bicycle
hamstrings: the muscle on the back of the thigh, not well developed by cycling.
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0081 – No Gas, No Traffic
No Gas No Traffic Free Parking Pollution Free Free Workout Ride Your Bike Save The World
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0349 – Indian Bicycle
Indian Bicycle I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like…; I don’t believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle… – Freddie […]
0337 – Hugs and Kisses
Hugs and Kisses It’s a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It’s the Jeremy Clarkson influence – we’re hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels. – Victoria Pendleton
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0515 – Good Mood
You are only one bicycle ride away from a good mood. 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 way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. – Emo Philips
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0367 – Alley Cat
My husband left me. He also left his bike magazines and his bike. Evenings were quiet on my own so I got to reading which led to riding. Now I’m 20 pounds lighter and 100 times happier. Now he wants me and his bike back. He can have the bike. I have new wheels and […]
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0287 – Dreaming of Cogs
My grandfather told me: Always wear underpants beneath your kanzu before you mount your bicycle. Foolishly I mocked him, and now my heart is a dry ear pod. I was cycling home from the market when a terrible whirlwind blew up my kanzu, ballooning it over my face and lifting me far above the ground. […]
0204 – Cogs and Chains
The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew and live through it. – Doug Bradbury
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0347 – Helmet
One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you. – Sheryl Crow
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0094 – When in Doubt
When in doubt, pedal it out… I’ve worked behind counters serving food, and I’ve lived on the circus train, and I’ve led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I’ve been a key liner for a newspaper, I’ve done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things. – Bonnie Jo Campbell
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0289 – Extend You Life. Cycle.
Extend You Life Cycle. I suppose that was what attracted me to the bicycle right from the start. It is not so much a way of getting somewhere as it is a setting for randomness; it makes every journey an unorganized tour. – Daniel Behrman
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0079 – Flying Bicycle Wings
I have an ElliptiGO. It’s a standup bicycle. You don’t pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact. – Dean Karnazes
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0359 – Let’s Ride
Let’s Ride The riders come out, knights for the tournament, neck to thigh in slippery lycra with the sheen of deep space condoms, faired helmets on their heads like the glans from another galaxy and neoprene pixyboots to slide the air around their feet, mounted on gaudily caparisoned donkeys — the carbon fiber monocoque monoblade. […]
0137 – Chains of the Heart
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
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0207 – Bicycle inside your Heart
I would rather ride my bike with a headwind, then to drive my car in heavy traffic on downtown street. – Tobias
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0095 – Runs on Fat and Saves You Money
Runs on Fat and Saves You Money Runs on Money and Makes You Fat In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders. – Vernon L. Smith
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0255 – Correct Number of Bicycles
Correct Number of Bicycles to Own You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bicycling. – Greg LeMond
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0030 – Bicycle Race
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. – Major Taylor
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0582 – Look
Look Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it’s like “Hey, we’re both doing the same thing. Let’s be friends for a second. – Neil Pasricha
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0018 – I want to be Cycling
I want A House A New Car A Plasma TV To Be Cyclists To Be Fee
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0615 – Our Chains Set Us Free
Our Chains Set Us Free Road rash: Cycling is only fun if the one doing the pavement cruising is the steed, not a cyclist’s skin. A spill can leave riders with painful scrapes, especially on the thighs, hips, and butt — the body parts that usually hit the ground first. To avoid pounding the pavement, […]
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0270 – Cycling Family
Cycling Family A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
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0601 – You Just Go Faster
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 a very aero tuck.
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0187 – Childs Bicycle
My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I’m more like one of those Taiwanese Masis. – Emilio Estevez
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0007 – No Bicycles – Whatever
Whatever The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. – Dean Kamen
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0404 – Bike Ride
Bike Ride My mother and I have a difference of opinion. She thinks I should go see a shrink; I think I should buy a new bike. – Alex Obbard
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0201 – Bike Fest
Bicycle Fest When I go biking I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart. – Diane Ackerman
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0408 – Bicycle Boy
Variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles rather than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. Give me a fixed gear. – Henri Desgrange
0618 – Pedal Hard
Cadence: The (hopefully smooth) rhythm of the crank arms (which attach pedals to bike) when pedaling –commonly called spinning.
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0075 – Bicycle Chain Medic
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man’s mode of transport. – Rohinton Mistry
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0518 – Killer in my Car
I’m a pedestrian, cyclist and motorist, but only a potential killer in my car. – Anonymous
Onncycles Bicycles
Road bike: Made of carbon fiber, titanium, steel, or aluminum, road bikes come in a range of shapes and sizes to fit the athletic needs and body of the rider. Unlike your average bicycle, a road bike is more lightweight, has extra gear combinations, and features sports tires that are narrow, inflated at high-pressures, and […]
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0020 – Live More Drive Less
Live More Driver Less Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling. – Claude Pepper
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0274 – Cyclocross
Cyclocross Death may have no master, but the bicycle is, most emphatically, not its slave. – James E Starts
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0311 – Not About The Destination
It’s not the DESTINATION… …it’s the glory of THE RIDE
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0283 – Do The Mix Right
Do The Mix Right With the heaps of overly specialized gear — gloves, shoes, and biking jerseys — most cyclists realize that every day on the road is Halloween. Plain and simple, it’s wearing a costume each time out of the gate.…We’re neon signs, stylistically impaired wonders blinding pedestrians and fooling small children into thinking […]
0644 – Ride
Ride shifter: A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio. It is usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable. Electronic shifting systems also exist
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0451 – To Do: Ride Bicycle
Today’s To Do List 1. Save some money 2. Exercise 3. Have some fun 4. Get better attitude 5. Go to work 6. Take time for myself 7. Save the planet 8. Look ahead for my future
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0005 – Penny Farthing
Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward. – George Weah
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0378 – Forever
The Bicycle is the common man among vehicles. – James E. Starrs
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0594 – Get Over It
May Use Full Lane – Get Over It ultra cycling: used to describe the side of the sport involving the longest endurance events. Also called ultramarathon.
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0422 – Bicycle City – Bicycle Country
The bicycle is ergonomically tailored to the human form and psyche, yet I wonder if a hithero ‘undiscovered’ native tribe, when presented with a bicycle, would ever be able to determine what on earth it was for. – Borin Van Loon
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0231 – Century Cycles
Century Cycles Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity. – Lord Charles
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0326 – The Handle Bar
Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever. – Hugh Pearman
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0330 – Happy Birthday Bicycle
Commuting by bicycle is an absolutely essential part of my day. It’s mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out. – James L. Jones