
Tags: man on bicycle, mtb
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
Tags: bicycle words, parts
Need a Quick Release? velodrome: an oval banked track for bicycle racing.
Tags: bicycle words, century
Century Cycles Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity. – Lord Charles
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 […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, chat
Such historians as record the tides of social manners and morals, have neglected the bicycle. – John Galsworthy
Tags: bicycle symbol, car, walk
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 […]
If you see me in New York, you’ll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them. – Denis O’Hare
Tags: bicycle words, wings
Bicycle I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle. – William Saroyan
Tags: man on bicycle
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
Tags: girl, man on bicycle
It’s been a long time since I’ve written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I’m hoping it’s like riding a bicycle. – Lynn Abbey
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
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles M. Schulz
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: cogs
Cyclers see considerable more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to. – Dr. K. K. Doty
Tags: girl, heart, man on bicycle
crosstraining: combining sports for mental refreshment and physical conditioning, especially during cycling’s off-season.
Tags: bicycle symbol, man on bicycle
All I’ve ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn’t finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set. – Christian Bale
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, statement
No Gas No Traffic Free Parking Pollution Free Free Workout Ride Your Bike Save The World
Tags: bicycle symbol, heart
I Love my Bike But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars. – Christiane Amanpour
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
cassette: The rear cog cluster on a derailleur bicycle, that fits on a freehub. It consists only of cogs, with no ratcheting mechanism, as the ratcheting mechanism is in the freehub.
One Less Car Beater bike: Usually a retired steed that’s seen better days, a beater bike, also called a clunker, is still capable of pulling its weight (and the rider’s weight, too!). Cyclists go for a beater bike on the days their devil-may-care attitude can’t be bothered by the technicality of a true road bike.
The reward for riding up hill, is the fun of riding down them. – Unknown
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
The Bicycle, built for the toughest race of all, the human race. So perfect is the safety bicycle, that, if the rider had sufficient skill not to interfere with its action, it will travel straight ahead and keep its own balance. – Scientific American
Tags: bicycle symbol, car, statement
Same Roads Same Rules Same Rights It was eleven more than necessary. – Jacques Anquetil
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
the journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single pedal stroke
Tags: bicycle symbol, tick
Welcome Cyclists If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. – Professor Carl Sagan
Tags: chain whip, tools
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. – James E. Starrs
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: bicycle symbol, heart
I would rather ride my bike with a headwind, then to drive my car in heavy traffic on downtown street. – Tobias
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
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 parked we got broadsided by a speeding bicycle? – Jarod Kintz
Tags: bicycle symbol, repairman, tools
Tags: man on bicycle, racers
Fast Bicycle One of my favorite things about biking vs driving: When I used to drive, I always drove with my doors locked… I would play my stereo, and mostly avoid any contact with other drivers on the road (just stayed in my gas-guzzling bot). But now, I ride my bike and oddly enough, I’m […]
Tags: wheels
Lets Roll A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. – Gloria Steinem
Tags: bicycle symbol, opportunity
You You What Lies Outside Of Your Comfort Zone Opportunity
Tags: bicycle symbol, tree
I ride through the time Elongating the memories with surreal distortion I ride for the feeling of freedom I am perpetual, free from the lingering fear of death I push myself to the edges of mortal capacity Then I transcend the human pain And enter that fourth dimension. The wheels no longer finger the ground […]
Tags: guerilla, man on bicycle
The world is my church, the wind in my ears is the choir and my handlebars are the alter I pray at. – Zcubed
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport. – Andrea Hirata
Tags: man on bicycle, statement
The Bicycle s a curious vehicle. It’s passenger is its engine.
Bikes 4 Life Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods. – […]
Tags: bicycle words, happiness
You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a bicycle and that’s pretty close.
Tags: bicycle symbol
It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they’re out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle’s simplicity and the precision with which it is made. […]
Tags: man on bicycle, racers
Race Bicycle 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 […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, nomenclature
Given the remarkable growth in support for gays and lesbians, I think there is a chance that recumbent might someday be accepted. – RAAM rider
Life is Better when you Pedal Love is a bicycle with two pancakes for wheels. You may see love as more of an exercise in hard work, but I see it as more of a breakfast on the go. – Jarod Kintz
Tags: bicycle words, nike
Bike Cycling is just like church many attend, but few understand. – Jim Burlant
Tags: child, man on bicycle
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world. – Major Taylor
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 words, collage
The bicycle is a former child’s toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. – Brock Yates
Tags: bicycle words
Feral Bicycles Doctor Sarvis, laboring on his bicycle up the long grade of Ninth South toward his home on 23rd East, was not unaware of the pressure of the traffic accumulating in his rear, the clamor of horns pounded by impatient fists, the motorized hatred fermenting at his back. But he thought, “Fuck ’em”. Let […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, peloton
It’s the first machine we master as children and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over. – Colman Mc Cartly
Tags: bicycle symbol, rural, urban
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, sign
Bike Love found a whole philosophy of life in the wooing and winning of my bicycle. – Frances Willard
Tags: child, man on bicycle
Cyclorama Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride. – Eddy Merckx
Tags: bicycle words, cogs
Bike Lover Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it. – Hallman
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
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: man on bicycle, world
Bicycle – A Ticket to the Work I don’t think I’ll be riding my bike home, that’s for sure. – Mary Jane Reoch
Tags: bicycle symbol, cycle way
Only Cycling Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald’s, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there’s an element of obviously benefiting your business. – Jim Cantalupo
Tags: bicycle symbol
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 I’m riding with nothing to lose. – Chris Witty
When I’m riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence. – Robin Williams
Tags: bicycle symbol, forever
Forever Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. – James Bethea
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
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 in smooth, uniform outlines with no shading. Below the graphic, two lines of elegant serif typography are stacked, the first smaller and italicized, the second larger and bolder, giving a classic, […]
Stop Looking at my Nipples I want to buy a sports car, because I like riding bicycles. Hold on to my handlebar mustache if you value your life. – Jarod Kintz
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, 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 […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, car, statement
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. – Christopher Morley
Tags: bicyle words, chain, crank
Ride a Bicycle 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, 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: bicyclesymbol, heart
cleat: a metal or plastic fitting on the sole of a cycling shoe that engages the pedal.
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Want Something Will Find A Way; Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, nomenclature
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you’ll crash. – Julie Furtado
Tags: bicycle symbol, sign
Bike Lane, Bikes Only I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle. – Zen proverb
Tags: bicycle symbol, forever
The Bicycle is the common man among vehicles. – James E. Starrs
Tags: bicycle symbol, recycling
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 words, cars, statement
Drivers angry over bikers need a relaxing hobby. May we suggest bicycling?
Bicycles are the indicator species of a community, like shellfish in a bay. – P. Martin Scott
Tags: bicycle words, statement
Bicycle Snob Wind is just a hill in gaseous form. – Barry McCarty
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: statement
I want A House A New Car A Plasma TV To Be Cyclists To Be Fee
Tags: girl, man on bicycle
It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for ‘Tron’ on stage, in the suit. You can’t even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you’re […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, cargo
Cargo Bicycle 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
Tags: bicycle symbol, brand, shield
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”
Tags: bicycle symbol
A mountain bike is like your buddy. A road bike is your lover. – Sean Coffey
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. – J.B. Jackson
Tags: man on bicycle, statement
Look We developed enormous appetites, and I recall the immense relief we had oh coming up to the little Swing-Gate Inn, three miles or more out from Dover, where we ordered bread, cheese, and beer, about all the inn afforded, and which was served to us on a little balcony over the inn door, where […]
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: bicycle symbol, cyclist, sign
Ride Bicycles Winning never gets repetitive – Mat “Cashmoney” Glaser
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 words, statement
Brooks Saddle – Snoobs Bicycle It’s something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike. Lance Armstrong
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
Ride Bicycles I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things. – Lech Walesa
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, statement
Happiness is a Bicycle Ride Away Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savor the journey, traveling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps. – Carl Honore […]
Tags: girl, man on bicycle
It’s the closest you can get to flying. – Robin Williams
Tags: bicycle symbol, cargo
Carry Something The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. – Iris Murdoch