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0142 – Simple Chainwheel
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 […]
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0287 – Dreaming of 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. […]
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0256 – Country Ride
Country Ride A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke. – Scott Stoll
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0110 – Pedal Power
Pedal Power Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. – H.G. Wells
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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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0374 – Bicycle Coaster Brakes
Bicycle Coaster Brakes At least you can quit a bike race. – Connie Carpenter Phinney
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0614 – Onncycle Bicycles
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 […]
0329 – Happy Bicycle Rider
Nothing compares to getting your heart rate up to 170-something, riding hard for an hour-twenty, getting off and not hurting, as opposed to 24 minutes of running, at the end of which I hurt. When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes your […]
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0156 – Bicycle Flame Rider
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country […]
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0072 – Wheel of Glory
If you think about computing, there isn’t just one way to compute, just like there’s not just one way to move around. You can have shoes, you can have a car, you can have a bicycle, submarine, rocket, plane, train, glider, whatever. Because you have one doesn’t mean you get rid of another one… But […]
0183 – Bikes Can Save Us
Bicycles Can Save Us I’m the paté on the Universal cracker. I’m the grout holding your shower tiles on. I’m out of the saddle, sprinting up that hill and eating glazed donut bracelets off the right arm of Jesus. – Charles Manson
0533 – Ride Bicycle Company
Ride Bicycle Company To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain….at cycling’s core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront […]
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0247 – Little Cog
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
0472 – Fast Folks
Fast Folks I’m gonna show you a hill that would choke a mule. – President George W. Bush
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0052 – Single Pedal Stroke
the journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single pedal stroke
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0006 – Add Days to my Life
I don’t ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days!
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0229 – Carry Something
Carry Something The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. – Iris Murdoch
0303 – Frame
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
0634 – Skull and Chainring
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.
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0226 – Bicycle Fist
Well, you better ride like you stole something ’cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance. – Lance Armstrong
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0150 – Bicycle Eyes
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. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. – Sloan Wilson
0113 – Crank It Hard
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. – Bob Weir
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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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0033 – Bicycle Reflectors
Your Eyes Sparkle Lke Bicycle Reflectors When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. – Emo Philips
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
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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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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
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0552 – Save Our Cyclists
Save Our Bicyclists I had a dream about you. You were on a bike going 70 miles an hour, I could see you approaching my car in the mirror. You were trying to say something so, I jumped on the brakes as hard as I could, I guess I forgot I had tied your bike […]
0631 – Penny Farthing
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.
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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
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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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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0356 – Just Cruise
So these three cyclist go out for a late-fall training ride. They’re hammering along when suddenly they hit a spot of black ice and fly off a cliff. When the first cyclist opens his eyes, and angel is standing before him. “Who do you wish to be?” asks the angel. “Huh?” says the cyclist. “Look, […]
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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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0490 – Ironsteed
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. – […]
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0099 – Cycle Lanes Everywhere
Cycle Lanes Everywhere I thought of that while riding my bicycle. – Einstein
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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
0389 – Bicycle Service
Bicycle Service The bicycle enables us to escape many other machines: We use it for transportation, sport, recreation, and make it a way of life. – Jobst Brandt
0347 – Helmet
One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you. – Sheryl Crow
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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 […]
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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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0639 – Ride Bicycles
Ride Bicycles lead out: Sprinting technique often used by the lead out man where the rider will accelerate to maximum speed close to the sprint point with a teammate, the sprinter, drafting behind, hoping to create space between the sprinter and the pack. When the lead out man is exhausted he will move to the […]
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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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0545 – Ride Your Bicycle
Ride Your Bicycle My favorite courses are nasty, technical downhills that frighten my mom. – Josh Ivey
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0464 – Mountain Bike Cyclist
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
0235 – Chain Link
The grace and charm of the bicycle lend added warmth and contour to the persons of the lovers it joins. – James E
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0227 – Watch for Bicycles
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
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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
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0416 – Riding ina Heart Beat
Ride Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. – Keith Bontrager
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0411 – Toughest Race of All
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
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0171 – Bicycle Race
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 swing wide, outflank […]
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0106 – Opportunity
You You What Lies Outside Of Your Comfort Zone Opportunity
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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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0646 – Ride Forever
Ride Forever stayer: A cyclist that excels at maintaining high speed on a relatively flat course alone. The stayer, climber and sprinter make up the three types of mass start road racing specialists. The stayer is some times referred to as a time trial-ist, since the qualities of one and the other are similar. Since […]
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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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0484 – Doing What You Cannot Do
The greatest pleasure is life is doing what people say you cannot do. We know that the rider was provoked, but we are forced to apply the regulations. That involves a fine and the immediate exclusion from the race. The gesture is inexcusable. – Giro d’Italia’s Race Jury President
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0363 – Girl on Bike
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget. – Mario Cipollini
0102 – Skull and Cog (no bones)
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. – John Howard
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0524 – 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 […]
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0304 – Between Two Points
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
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0014 – Female Cyclists Wanted
Female Cyclists Wanted I do like working out. I feel my best when I work out, but you know, I’m human. I like to ride my bicycle and lift weights and hike. When I am diligently working out, ideally, I like to work out four days a week. If I can do that, I feel […]
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0462 – Bicycle of Anarchy
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
0001 – Cool Cycling
Cool Cycling The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. – Guy […]
0236 – Chains and Cogs
Really steep climbs are not my forte, so I always dread that lowest gear because I figure, god, I’m doomed. – Juli Furtado
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0174 – Bicycle Maintenance
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. – Grant Petersen
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0556 – Smash Your TV
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
0457 – Life
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
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0317 – Natures Bicycle
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. – Iris Murdoch
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0538 – Riding in a Heartbeat
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
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0216 – Bike Walk
Bike Walk What’s with these recumbent bicycles? Listen, buddy, if you wanna take a nap, lie down. If you wanna ride a bike, buy a bicycle. – George Carlin
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0277 – Bicycle Anarchy
A mountain bike is like your buddy. A road bike is your lover. – Sean Coffey
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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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0345 – Love You Bicycle
Love You Bicycle Cycling has encountered more enemies than any other form of exercise. – Louis Baudry de Saunier
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0328 – Happy Bicycle Parts
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
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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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0289 – Extend You Life. Cycle.
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
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0587 – I Love Bicycles
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.
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0535 – Ride Bikes
Ride Bicycles Winning never gets repetitive – Mat “Cashmoney” Glaser
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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.
0448 – Cogs and Cross Bones
You have to sprint on feeling, not thinking. You must have faith in yourself but you cannot think about it too much. – Jean Paul Van Poppel
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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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0585 – Bicycle Badge Love
aerodynamic: a design of cycling equipment or a riding position that reduces wind resistance; aero for short.
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0135 – Best Machine Ever
Best Machine Ever 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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0444 – Ride Like the Wind
Ride Like the Wind When Lance first turned professional, it was like trying to put a hand brake on a raging bull. – Paul Sherwen
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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
0258 – Crank It
Crank It 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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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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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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0086 – Happiness is a Bicycle Ride Away
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 […]
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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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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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0619 – The Pedal Inn
Singletrack: Mountain biking gold (as opposed to doubletrack trash – a jeep like road or trail), a trail just wide enough for one person (wheel) at a time.
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0378 – Forever
The Bicycle is the common man among vehicles. – James E. Starrs
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
0417 – Linked In
Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless. – Zapata Espinoza
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
0337 – Hugs and Kisses
Hugs and Kisses It’s a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It’s the Jeremy Clarkson influence – we’re hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels. – Victoria Pendleton