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0514 – Against Oil Wars
Bicycling, a quiet statement against oil wars. The bicycle, the bicycle, surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. – Christopher Morely
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0480 – Sweetness
The bitterness of poor quality remain long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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0177 – Bicycle Repairman
Bicycle Repairman What do you call a cyclist who doesn’t wear a helmet? An organ donor. – David Perry
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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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0365 – Race Winner
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 is no emotional attachment. – T.A. Melton
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0407 – Born to Ride
Born to Ride but Forced to Work There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard. – Jerome K. Jerome
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0341 – I Like Your BIKE
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 […]
0475 – Cogs, Crank and Wings
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying. – Greg LeMond
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0046 – Man Races Bicycle
There’s a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before – that is mind-boggling. It’s worth everything. – Lene Hau
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0093 – Bright Bicycle Idea
I enjoy getting to work on ‘Saturday Night Live’, where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on’ Portlandia’. – Fred Armisen
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0270 – Cycling Family
Cycling Family A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
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0276 – Energy Savings Drafting Formation
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
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0470 – Do You Cycle?
Do You Cycle? There was a second supremely sweet moment of victory. As I made my way through the finish area, I passed the Cofidis team. Assorted members of the organization stood around, the men who I felt had left me for dead in a hospital room. “That was for you,” I said as I […]
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0437 – Love Cycling
Love Cycling 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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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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0050 – I Live It
I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. – Dave Eggers
0175 – Bicycle Repair Man
Bicycle Repair Man Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, […]
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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
0233 – Chain Links
Smooth, predictable riding when you’re in a group isn’t just a matter of style. It’s survival. – Geoff Drake
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0439 – Love 2 Ride
Love 2 Ride Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike – Fausto Coppi
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0229 – Carry Something
Carry Something The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. – Iris Murdoch
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0221 – Ride Bicycles Company
Ride Bicycles Company There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles. – Tom Kunich
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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 […]
0263 – Curved Cranks
Curved Cranks Designed to overcome dead centre : gives fast pedaling action. Adopted by the world’s best sprinters.
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0583 – Look for Cyclists
Look for Cyclists Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere – when all she’d ever trained […]
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0022 – Bike in the Clouds
Bike 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 Golding
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0275 – Cyclorama
Cyclorama Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride. – Eddy Merckx
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0152 – Bicycle for Anarchy
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. – H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance
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0423 – I Live It
I live it A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
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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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0116 – Just a Simple Bicycle
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
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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
0114 – The Holy Bicycle
As a kid I had a dream – I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the 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 […]
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0228 – Cargo Bicycle
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
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0586 – Bicycle Heart
cleat: a metal or plastic fitting on the sole of a cycling shoe that engages the pedal.
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0645 – Ride Forever
Ride Forever sprinter: Rider with the ability to generate very high power over short periods (a few seconds to a minute) allowing for great finishing speeds, but usually unable to sustain sufficiently high power over long periods to be a good time triallist, and is usually too big to have a high enough power-to-weight ratio […]
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0194 – There is a C in Bicycle
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
0320 – Heart of Cogs
The reward for riding up hill, is the fun of riding down them. – Unknown
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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
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0549 – Make Room for Bicycles
Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand. – Matt Hoffman
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0523 – Race Bicycle
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 […]
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0065 – Look for Cyclists
Look for Cyclists Because, you know, I can’t work a bicycle pump. – Judi Dench
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0488 – I Bicycle
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 a […]
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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 […]
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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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Race Bicycle
Description: This hand-drawn, high-contrast black-and-white illustration uses loose, expressive line work and rough ink-brush texture to depict a cyclist hunched forward over a road bike with drop bars, captured mid-pedal in a dynamic, forward-leaning pose. The rider wears a cap, fitted jersey, and backpack, rendered with bold cross-hatched shading and scratchy motion lines suggesting speed […]
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0130 – Always Wear Protection
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 […]
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0060 – Fat + Bike = Skinny
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna – as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent. […]
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0305 – Good
I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life. – Stephen Roche
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0281 – Don’t Run Me Over
Don’t Run Me Over 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. – Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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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. […]
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0036 – Walk Your Bicycle
The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks. – Pele
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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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0224 – Burn Fat not Oil
Burn Fat Not Oil Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. – Louis L’Amour
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0088 – Bicycle Ying – Car Yang
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London. – Iain Glen
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0284 – The Bicycle Thief
The best routes are the ones you haven’t ridden. You could pedal the same loops year after year. Many people do, literally or figuratively. But to grow, you need new rides. Risks. Turn down lanes you’ve long seen but never traveled. Get lost once or twice, then double back to where you started and try […]
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0089 – Winner of the Ride
I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim. – Marlene Dumas
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0560 – Sweet-Ass Bicycle
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 bicycle while I rode on the handlebars – Jarod Kintz
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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0569 – Weight Weenie
Weight Weenie I hit a car, but it wasn’t my fault. The bicyclist who rear ended me is to blame. – Jarod Kintz
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0049 – Eye of the Bicycle
I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike. – Carre Otis
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0529 – Ride Bike
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
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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0507 – Every Day is a Bike Day
Every Day is a Bicycle Day There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; In this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard. – Jerome K. Jerome
0635 – Ride Bicycle Company
Ride Bicycles Company chain suck: The tendency of a chain to stick to chain rings and be sucked up into the bike instead of coming off the chainring. Primarily caused by worn chainrings and rust on small chain rings, under high loads, and in dirty conditions
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0578 – Live Love Ride
Live Love Ride His voice was so gravelly I could drive a truck on it. And I would have, but I came carrying my bicycle. – Jarod Kintz
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0493 – Bicycle Stripes
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
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0087 – A Boy and his 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
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0110 – Pedal Power
Pedal Power Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. – H.G. Wells
0421 – Cycle
Cycle The bicycle was the last advance in technology everybody understands. Anybody who can ride one can understand how it works. – Stewart Parker
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0504 – Bicycle within your 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
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0503 – Love Bicycle
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 why, but it does it anyway. – Ian Hibell
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0430 – i BIKE life
I bicycle life The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it. – Doug Bradbury
Cogs in the Mountain
Boredom greases the cogs in the machinery of marvels. Oh, God, will you be bored. The three days waiting for an Indonesian bureaucrat to issue you a travel permit; the rock slide in Costa Rica that caused a twenty-three-hour traffic jam; the five-day wait for the Congo River passenger barge; the eight sweaty hours spent […]
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0403 – Bike Lover
Bike Lover Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it. – Hallman
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058 – Live to Ride – Ride to Live
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
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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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0642 – Ride Bikes
Ride Bikes rotating weight: Weight (more correctly mass) that is rotating while the bike is moving, particularly the wheels. Mass near the outside edge of a wheel has about twice the stored energy of a similar non-rotating mass moving at the same speed. A bicycle wheel can be considered to be a good approximation of […]
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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0056 – Let’s Ride
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
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0307 – Get Out
Get Out Ride Your Bicycle It is no longer a beast of steel… no it is a friend… it is a faithful and powerful ally against one’s worst enemies. It is stronger than anxiety, stronger than sadness. It has all the power of hope. – Maurice Leblanc
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0567 – Velorution
Velorution But I pushed and pulled in vain, the wheels would not turn. It was as though the brakes were jammed, and heaven knows they were not, for my bicycle had no brakes. And suddenly overcome by a great weariness, in spite of the dying day when I always felt most alive, I threw the […]
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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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0339 – I HEART BIKE
At that age, it’s one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it. – Curtis Jackson
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0153 – Bicycle Forever
Forever Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. – James Bethea
0128 – Bicycles have Wings
Bicycles Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? – Flann O’Brien
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0057 – Lady Cyclist
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 […]
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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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0195 – Bike Nike
Bike Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I’m in hog heaven. – Ryan Seacrest
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0103 – Welcome Cyclists
Welcome Cyclists If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. – Professor Carl Sagan
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0242 – Ride A Bike
Change Your Perspective – Ride A Bike The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. – Sloan Wilson
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0133 – Bicycle Mario
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamoring of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules […]
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0234 – Chain Heart Bicycle
Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside. – Jim Malusa
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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 […]
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0297 – Feral Bicycles
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 […]
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0237 – Bicycle Chain Link
Smooth, predictable riding when you’re in a group isn’t just a matter of style. It’s survival. – Geoff Drake