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0077 – Bicycle Forever
Forever My favorite movie ever is ‘Bicycle Thieves.’ – Jennifer Morrison
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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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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0520 – Fun Between My Legs
Put the fun between your legs. 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 […]
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0373 – A Ticket to the 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
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0155 – Bicycle Friendly
Bicycle Friendly The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. ~Ivan Illich
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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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0292 – Crazy Bicycle Face
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 […]
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0096 – Tri Harder
Tri When we were working on ‘Looking’ in San Francisco, I bought a new bike from Mission Bicycle Company, which I’m completely in love with. – Murray Bartlett
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0076 – Life is a Beautiful Ride
Life is a Beautiful Ride When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle. – Francis Ford Coppola
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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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0410 – I want to Breakaway
Breakway A cyclist or group of cyclists who split off the front of a Peloton are referred to as a Breakaway.
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0525 – Recycle A Bicycle
Recycle A Bicycle If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. Up ahead there are two parallel buses. With cat’s whiskers, you measure the clearance down a doubtful alley. You […]
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0003 – Cycling under the 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
0286 – Do You Cycle
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
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0521 – Fun Between the Legs
Put the fun between you legs. A 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. – Bill Emerson
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0101 – Federal Bicycle Tires
Federal Bicycle Tires After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn’t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience … like realizing, oh, there are brakes! – Robin Williams
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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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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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0331 – #cycling
#CYCLING Ned Flanders: “You were bicycling two abreast?” Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”
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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
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0222 Bicycle Idea
To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman. – Jacques Anquetil
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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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0198 – Bike Bike
Bike, Bike If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today. – Ralph Nader
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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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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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0010 – I Bike 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
0002 – Cycling Chain Love
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
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0073 – Giant Cog – Little Bicycle
In Cuba, I didn’t even have a bicycle. – Yoenis Cespedes
0611 – One Less Car
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.
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0378 – Forever
The Bicycle is the common man among vehicles. – James E. Starrs
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0139 – Chain Whip
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. – James E. Starrs
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0123 – The Happy Cyclist
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
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0209 – Bike Love
Bicycle Love Cats don’t like riding on a bicycle….no matter how much duct tape you use. – Anonymous
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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0019 – Lets Roll
Lets Roll A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. – Gloria Steinem
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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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0548 – Bicycle get Linked In
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
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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 […]
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0088 – Bicycle Ying – Car Yang
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London. – Iain Glen
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0391 – A Sign to Bicycle
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
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0362 – Imperial Century
160 kms Be at one with the universe. If you can’t do that, at least be at one with your bike. – Lennard Zinn
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0539 – Ride the Matrix
Ride He’s dancing on the pedals in an immodest way! – Phil Liggett
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0401 – Bike Lane – Bikes Only
Bike Lane, Bikes Only I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle. – Zen proverb
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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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0268 – Bicycle City – Bicycle Country
When you’re turning the crankset, you’re riding the bike. When you’re coasting, you’re just along for the ride. – Ned Overend
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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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0318 – Traffic Light Bicycle
Finishing a ride is mandatory. Finishing a ride fast is optional. – Unknown
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0502 – Look
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 […]
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0473 – Fat Tyres
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. – Lance Armstrong
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0650 – Ride Here, Ride Now
Ride Here, Ride Now sticky bottle: A technique often used by the rider who takes food and water from the team car during a race. The rider holds on for a variable amount of time to the bottle handed to him by the car occupant, who maintains his grasp on the object, effectively dragging the […]
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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0021 – Change Your Perspective
Change Your Perspective Ride A Bike One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle. – Michael Palin
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0111 – Bicycle Boy
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
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0192 – From Here to There
If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head. – Laura Dern
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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
0554 – Cog and Skull
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. – Scott Westerfeld
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0165 – Bicycle Roadway
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
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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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0145 – Commuter
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~ Mark Twain
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0575 – Not The Road
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
0478 – Eight Cogs
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
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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0223 – Snoobs Bicycle
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
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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
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0042 – Locked Bicycle 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
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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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0058 – Ride More Drive Less
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks. – Craig Brown
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0312 – Go Cycling
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
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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 […]
0505 – Heart inside the Links
We had little difficulty in approximately laying out the route; but, concerning the roads that we might expect to encounter, we were unable to obtain any information. However, as tourists, we did not hesitate to set out, and we did so with a grim determination to adhere to the route, let come what might, and […]
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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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0584 – Love the Bicycle for its Anarchy
I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task – when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles – that’s when I felt good, normal, balanced. – Tyler Hamilton
0037 – Chain Link Heart
Well, I don’t ever get excited. I haven’t been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there’s always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and […]
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0465 – Bike-ing is forever
Cycling is forever Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. – Greg LeMond
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0310 – Shades of Bicycle
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
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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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0109 – Live Life
Live Life, Ride a Bicycle Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. – H.G. Wells
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0120 – The Bicycle of Revoluation
The Bicycle of Revolution The Cycle of Evolution
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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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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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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0374 – Bicycle Coaster Brakes
Bicycle Coaster Brakes At least you can quit a bike race. – Connie Carpenter Phinney
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0265 – Cycle and Cycle
Cycle and Cycle – Bicycles at Law 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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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
0267 – Cycle Cycle
Cycle Cycle Work to eat. Eat to live. Live to bike. Bike to work. – Unknown
0061 – Border Raiders
Border Raiders I want to take time for myself, because all my life is ta-ta-ta-ta. So I don’t want nothing special, just to breathe. I’d like to work maybe a half day and then take my bicycle and go by the riverside. – Renzo Rosso
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0406 – Swim Bike Run
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
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0035 – Bike Friendly
Bike Friendly Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned – it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so […]
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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 […]
0637 – Ride Bicycles Company
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.
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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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0299 – 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
Cog and Tool
Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It’s good for the waistline and it’s good for the wallet, is what I’m saying. – Phil Keoghan
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0448 – The Bicycle Solution
The Bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world’s most complicated problems.
0173 – Bicycle Repair Center
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
0178 – Bicycle Repair Man
Bicycle Repair Man 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 point between the […]
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0243 – Cities are Built for People
Cities and build for cities, not cars! Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. – William Golding
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Live Love Ride
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.