
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
Frame I’m gonna ride forever 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 tyres. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. – Leon Trotsky
Tags: bicycle symbol, car, statement
You Own a Car, Not the Road I took the wheels of my bike off in support of your bicycle race to support bike riding.” – Jarod Kintz
Tags: bicycle symbol, chat
Such historians as record the tides of social manners and morals, have neglected the bicycle. – John Galsworthy
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. – Helen Keller
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
RIDE, drink, sleep, repeat Women cyclist cannot protect their chastity. – District Governor of Ramasar, Iran
Tags: bicycle symbol, chain
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles. – Tennessee Williams
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
Take a Ride with Me I’d rather ride two unicycles at the same time than one bicycle twice – Jarod Kintz
Tags: sign language
Never use your face as a brake pad. – Jake Watson
Tags: bicycle symbol, chain, links
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 sport – hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics. – Greg LeMond
Tags: bicycle words, horse
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 […]
Tags: cogs
I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front […]
For all their fearlessness, sprinters are a delicate breed. At the peak of form they effuse an aura of invincibility, suggesting no bicycle rider ever pedaled as fast. To win, sprinters must have everything: physical condition, confidence, luck, aggression and committed team support. An elusive combination, attainable but not sustainable. – David Walsh
Tags: girl, man on bicycle, statement
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
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft… As for me, give me a fixed gear! – Henri Desgrange
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
I like your bicycle There is something about the miscreant cyclist that seems to get people more exercised than they are about the misbehaving motorist…When people get into cars, their metal encasement turns them into robots in our minds, and we’re grateful to them for any act of courtesy. We’re grateful that they don’t deliberately […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, car, sign, walk
bonk: n., v. cycling’s classic term for blowing up, hitting the wall, or otherwise expiring in midride. Can be caused by — and is frequently blamed on — insufficient water or calorie intake, but in truth is usually a result of insufficient training. “Had I eaten more linguini last night, I’m certain I wouldn’t have […]
Tags: statement
I want A House A New Car A Plasma TV To Be Cyclists To Be Fee
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. – Scott Westerfeld
Tags: bicycle symbol, cyclist, heart
Ride Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. – Keith Bontrager
Mend Your Fuelish Ways If were not a man, I would like to be a bird. As I am a man, I do the next best thing, and ride a bicycle. – Rev. Maltie
Tags: bicycle symbol
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. – Leon Trotsky
The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew and live through it. – Doug Bradbury
Tags: man on bicycle, sign
Socialism can only arrive by bicycle. – Jose Antonio Viera Gallo
The reward for riding up hill, is the fun of riding down them. – Unknown
Ride 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
Tags: bicycle words, slogan, statement
Ride Hard or Ride Home wheelie: Lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air – through force transmitted through the pedals – whilst riding and continuing to ride on only the back wheel. The rider maintains the wheelie by applying pedalstrokes and rear brake in order to balance the bicycle on only the […]
Cycling 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. – William G. Golding
Tags: man on bicycle, statement
The Bicycle s a curious vehicle. It’s passenger is its engine.
Tags: bicycle lock, heart
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. – Vernon L. Smith
Tags: bicycle words, cogs
Bike Lover Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it. – Hallman
Tags: man on bicycle, statement
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, […]
Tags: 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 […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, child
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
Tags: anarchy, bicycle symbol
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
The bicycle will accomplish more for women’s sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ~Demerarest’s Family
Tags: bicycle symbol, cargo, tandem
Cycling Family A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
How To Improve Your Day Step 1 : Ride Your Bicycle Step 2 : Repeat Step 1
Bones Heal Chicks Dig Scars Pain is Temporary Glory is Forever. – Patrick Aanstoots
Tags: girl, heart, man on bicycle
crosstraining: combining sports for mental refreshment and physical conditioning, especially during cycling’s off-season.
Tags: bicycle symbol, recycling
Tags: brakes, man on bicycle, parts
Bicycle Coaster Brakes At least you can quit a bike race. – Connie Carpenter Phinney
Tags: bicycle symbol, repairman, tools
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. – Grant Petersen
Granny gear: The lowest available front and rear chainrings… think about the gear you need to keep riding instead of walking up a mountain pass.
Tags: bicycle symbol, forever
Forever If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn’t get so many punctures. Earth’s revenge. – Jo Burt
Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people. – Chip Brown
Tags: bicycle symbol, cyclist, girl
People do not ‘drive’ cars, they steer them. People do not ‘ride’ bicycles, they drive them. – A. N. Mouse
Tags: bicycle symbol, heart
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 the drinking of tea and making of crochet mats. – Brighton Gazette
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
Good Few people realize that when you move the seatpost an innocent inch or two you are changing the action of every muscle in the lower limb which is involved in the pedaling action.
Tags: bicycle symbol, horse
Ironsteed 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 fibre monocoque monoblade. – […]
Ride Bicycles Company drafting: To ride closely behind another rider to make maximum use of their slipstream, reducing wind resistance and effort required to ride at the same speed.
Tags: bicycle words, cogs, statement
Live Love Ride blocking n. getting in the way of slow down in front of rival riders, to help a teammate get ahead on a breakaway.
Curved Cranks Designed to overcome dead centre : gives fast pedaling action. Adopted by the world’s best sprinters.
Tags: child, man on a bicycle
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, cogs
When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do! – Jens Voigt
Tags: bicycle symbol, man on bicycle
The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks. – Pele
Tags: bicycle words, tools
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn’t professional. – Mehmet Oz
Tags: bicycle symbol, brand, company
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 potential in cycling and other aerobic sports. It’s largely genetically determined but can be improved somewhat by training.
Tags: chain
Cycling Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. – Terry Pratchett
Cadence: The (hopefully smooth) rhythm of the crank arms (which attach pedals to bike) when pedaling –commonly called spinning.
Tags: cycling, man on bicycle
Go Cycling Bicycling is a healthy and manly pursuit with much to recommend it, and, unlike other foolish crazes,it has not died out. – Daily Telegraph
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
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
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.[
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
Bicycle Eyeview It’s like “Animal Planet,” except with bicycles instead of animals. – Ryan Seacrest
Tags: bicycle symbol
Go Out The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget. – Mario Cipollini
Cycle Maintenance Handbook You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you’re having a good day. – Daniel Behrman
Tags: bicycle symbol, repairman
Tags: bicycle symbol, 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
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
the journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single pedal stroke
Tags: bicycle symbol
But the fact is that I wouldn’t have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong
Tags: man on bicycle, sign
There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Tags: bicycle symbol, sign
Bike Love found a whole philosophy of life in the wooing and winning of my bicycle. – Frances Willard
Tags: bicycle symbol, cycle way
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. – Paul Scott Mowrer
Always Wear Protection 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 […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
Ride Bicycles Company There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles. – Tom Kunich
Tags: bicycle symbol, no cycling
Whatever The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. – Dean Kamen
A road rider who is not practiced is merely an athlete on a bike, half educated, a pedaler not a complete cyclist. – Maynard Hershon
Tags: bicycle symbol, smile
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century. – Author Unknown
Tags: bicycle words, cyclist
Bicycling, a quiet statement against oil wars. The bicycle, the bicycle, surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. – Christopher Morely
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
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.
Tags: bicycle symbol, life
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, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, parts, wheels
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. – Sherlock Holmes
Tags: man on bicycle, statement
Make Your Own Path Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. – Billy Connolly
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Take One Ride Twice Daily side effects may include: loss of weight, reduced stress, happiness
Tags: cyclist, man on bicycle, mtb
Eat before you are hungry. Drink before you are thirsty. Rest before you are tired. Cover up before you are cold. Peel off before you are hot. Don’t drink or smoke on tour. Never ride just to prove yourself. – Paul de Vivie, aka Velocio
Tags: freedom, man on bicycle
Bicycles are Freedom Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places – you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors. – Nick Moran
I was trying to introduce myself as America’s woman champion, but I said the french word “Champignon”, so I introduced myself as a mushroom. – Nancy Neiman Baranet
Tags: bicycle words, cogs, sunset
Long Ride If continuous cycling is productive of a superfluity of exhilaration, and said exhilaration bubbles over occasionally, plainly the bicycle is to blame. – Thomas Stevens
Bicycle Repairman What do you call a cyclist who doesn’t wear a helmet? An organ donor. – David Perry
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words, statement
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 worn out. – Jarod Kintz
Tags: bicycle symbol, man on bicycle
I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view — get hot, juicy, red — like a […]
Tags: bicycle symbol
Bicycle Fest When I go biking I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart. – Diane Ackerman
Bicycle Repair Man All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet. – Karl Kron
Tags: 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. […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, heart, shield
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. Reserves are normally depleted after about two-and-a-half hours of riding.
Tags: bicycle symbol, cycle way
Cycle Lanes Everywhere I thought of that while riding my bicycle. – Einstein