
Tags: car, man on bicycle
Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand. – Matt Hoffman
Tags: bicycle symbol, medical
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Live More Driver Less Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling. – Claude Pepper
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, cycle way, sign
Hey diddle, diddle The bicycle riddle The strangest part of the deal. Just keep your accounts And add the amounts The ‘sundries’ cost more than the wheel
Tags: girl, man on bicycle
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget. – Mario Cipollini
Tags: bicycle words, cogs, tools
I picked my head up during an interval and saw an enormous ostrich zigzagging in the road. I swung wide to get by – and just as I did he started chasing me. These guys can motor. I had to sprint to drop him. – Tyler Hamilton
Bicycle Repair Centre All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn’t need a lock. – Author Unknown
Tags: bicycle symbol
I don’t ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days!
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
Cycling At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university. – Philipp Meyer
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words, cogs
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
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. – Bob Weir
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: man on bicycle, racers
In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I’m doing in that quiet time is just observing. – Robin Williams
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement, television
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, chain, fork, parts
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 faster because drivers fight each other to see who gets to let me into the lane I want. Drivers would sooner cross the yellow line and hit a utility pole than […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Work Sucks! I’m going riding… Somebody took my bicycle tire, my bicycle seat, and both my pedals. They stole my whole unicycle! – Jarod Kintz
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, car, statement
Same Roads Same Rules Same Rights It was eleven more than necessary. – Jacques Anquetil
Tags: bicycle symbol, cogs
When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do! – Jens Voigt
Tags: bicycle words, statement
I love you as much as I love biking. And trust me, that’s a lot. Five years from now, if I’m in Texas and there is a local mountain bike race, will I go down and do it? Probably. That’s just simply as a fan and somebody who does cycling for fitness. I’m committed to […]
Tags: bicycle symbol
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. – Christopher Morley
Tags: car, man on bicycle, recycle
reCycle 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 […]
Tags: man on bicycle, statement
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words, 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 […]
Tags: sign language
Never use your face as a brake pad. – Jake Watson
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
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: man on bicycle
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
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, 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
Bones Heal Chicks Dig Scars Pain is Temporary Glory is Forever. – Patrick Aanstoots
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 words, statement
Tags: bicycle symbol, life
I Bike Life One day I’m riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people. – Ricky Martin
Tags: bicycle symbol, cogs
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there. […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Take One Ride Twice Daily side effects may include: loss of weight, reduced stress, happiness
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
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 […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
Bicycle does get you there and more and there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. – Anonymous
Tags: man on bicycle, sign
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. – Bill Nye
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement, touring
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 a tent for camping. Some cyclists minimize their load, carrying only basic supplies, food, and a Bivouac sack or lightweight tent.
Tags: bicycle symbol, heart
The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. – Amy Webster
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
What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it’s anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, bicycle words
Bicycle Eyeview It’s like “Animal Planet,” except with bicycles instead of animals. – Ryan Seacrest
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
The funnest way between two points is on a 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 Saroya
Tags: bicycle symbol, man on bicycle
Tags: bicycle symbol, ride, swim, walk
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 truly disgusting experience. – Steve Gravenites
Tags: chain whip, tools
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. – James E. Starrs
Tags: bicycle symbol, heart
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, man on bicycle, smile
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. That which caused the many failures I had in learning the bicycle has caused me failures in life; namely, a certain fearful looking for […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Young rider pick a destination and go… Older riders pick a direction and go…
Tags: bicycle words, biyccle symbol
Ride Bicycles paceline: Group of riders riding at high speed by drafting one another. Riders will take turns at the front to break the wind, then rotate to the back of the line to rest in the draft. Larger group rides will often form double pacelines with two columns of riders. Sometimes referred to as […]
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, sign, statement
May Use Full Lane I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him instead of, as anyone can see, he is carrying the horse. – George Bernard Shaw
Tags: bicycle symbol, man on bicycle, wings
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it. – Marie Louise de la Ramee
Tags: bicycle symbol, forever, shield
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 that the rider is firmly attached to the pedal. To lock into clip-ins, firmly step down and forward until it clicks (some clip-ins require twisting the cleat into the lock). To […]
Tags: bicycle words, happiness
You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a bicycle and that’s pretty close.
Tags: man on bicycle, statement
Ride Your Bicycle My favorite courses are nasty, technical downhills that frighten my mom. – Josh Ivey
Tags: bicycle symbol, sign
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 out in a gym. – Bill Nye
Tags: bicycle symbol, forever, statement
Bicycle Everyday I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore. – Eddy Merckx
Tags: bicycle symbol, life
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant. The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of […]
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public. – Joseph C. Lincoln
Smooth, predictable riding when you’re in a group isn’t just a matter of style. It’s survival. – Geoff Drake
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.
Tags: bicycle symbol, idea
To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman. – Jacques Anquetil
Tags: bicycle words, statement
Ride Your Bike Armstrong out of the saddle all of the time now, dancing on his pedals, keeping his perpetual cadence going that DESTROYS the bike riders around the world. – Phil Liggett
Tags: bicycle words, statement
Ride Hard tubular tyres: Tubular tyres are cycle tyres that have the inner tube permanently stitched inside the casing. They are held in place using glue or glue-tape, and are affixed to rims which lack the sidewalls characteristic of a hook-bead rim. Tubulars take very high pressure (up to 10 bar or 145 psi, or […]
Tags: bicycle symbol
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. – Lance Armstrong
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
Tags: bicycle symbol, girl, man on bicycle
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 — a true pain in the butt.
Tags: bicycle symbol, car, killer
I’m a pedestrian, cyclist and motorist, but only a potential killer in my car. – Anonymous
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, lego
Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it. – Hallman
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 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: car, man on bicycle, statement
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, sign
Bike Lane, Bikes Only I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle. – Zen proverb
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, live
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 […]
Tags: bicycle symbol, man on bicycle
The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it. – Doug Bradbury
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: badge, bicycle symbol, heart
aerodynamic: a design of cycling equipment or a riding position that reduces wind resistance; aero for short.
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
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, life, statement
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 all political, social, racial and economic barriers. Execpt for recumbents. – Ted Constantin
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
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
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
Tags: bicycle symbol, sign
Give Way 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. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tags: bicycle symbol, tandem
Travel Together Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Tags: bicycle symbol, statement
the journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single pedal stroke
Tags: cogs
In Cuba, I didn’t even have a bicycle. – Yoenis Cespedes
Tags: bicycle words, cogs
Bike Lover Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it. – Hallman
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, nomenclature
Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside. – Jim Malusa