Cog and Tool
Description: This design uses a smooth gradient gray palette, with a gear-toothed circular border framing the central artwork for a mechanical, badge-like feel. Inside,…
Description: This design uses a smooth gradient gray palette, with a gear-toothed circular border framing the central artwork for a mechanical, badge-like feel. Inside,…
Description: This flat, single-color black vector design depicts a bicycle chainring rendered as a bold circular gear shape with evenly spaced sprocket teeth and…
Description: A flat, single-color black vector design features a long horizontal bicycle chain rendered with rounded links and circular pin details, stretching across the…
Description: This design uses a distressed, woodcut-style illustration technique with a rough, textured single-tone gray palette, giving the whole graphic a vintage, hand-carved poster…
Description: A flat, single-color black vector illustration presents a clean, minimalist bicycle with upright handlebars, a step-through-adjacent frame shape, and simple spoked wheels, drawn…
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…
Description: A flat, single-color black vector illustration depicts a simplified fixie-style bicycle with flat handlebars, a straight-cut fork, and a minimalist triangular frame, drawn…
Description: This flat, single-color vector design uses a bold black bicycle chain, rendered with rounded link segments and circular pin details, bent into the…
Description: A bold single-color silhouette illustration renders a classic road bike in solid black line art, showing drop handlebars, a diamond frame, and skinny…
Ride Hard turn: A turn is a rider sharing the workload on a pace line “he took a turn” or “he is doing a…
Ride Hard or Ride Home wheelie: Lifting the front wheel of the bicycle in the air – through force transmitted through the pedals –…
Ride Hard tubular tyres: Tubular tyres are cycle tyres that have the inner tube permanently stitched inside the casing. They are held in place…
Ride Forever stayer: A cyclist that excels at maintaining high speed on a relatively flat course alone. The stayer, climber and sprinter make up…
Ride Forever sprinter: Rider with the ability to generate very high power over short periods (a few seconds to a minute) allowing for great…
Ride shifter: A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio. It is usually connected to…
Ride Bikes rotating weight: Weight (more correctly mass) that is rotating while the bike is moving, particularly the wheels. Mass near the outside edge…
Ride Bicycles Company pump: colloquial verb meaning to give a second person a ride on a bicycle, also known as giving a hike. The…
Ride Bicycles paceline: Group of riders riding at high speed by drafting one another. Riders will take turns at the front to break the…
Ride follow a wheel: The ability to follow a wheel is the ability to match the pace of riders who are setting the tempo.…
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 Bicycles Company chain suck: The tendency of a chain to stick to chain rings and be sucked up into the bike instead of…
cassette: The rear cog cluster on a derailleur bicycle, that fits on a freehub. It consists only of cogs, with no ratcheting mechanism, as…
Drivers angry over bikers need a relaxing hobby. May we suggest bicycling?
Granny gear: The lowest available front and rear chainrings… think about the gear you need to keep riding instead of walking up a mountain…
Singletrack: Mountain biking gold (as opposed to doubletrack trash – a jeep like road or trail), a trail just wide enough for one person…
Cadence: The (hopefully smooth) rhythm of the crank arms (which attach pedals to bike) when pedaling –commonly called spinning.
You Know What Lies Outside Of Your Comfort Zone? Opportunity. Door zone: The space right next to the parked car lane. To avoid the hazard…
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 —…
Our Chains Set Us Free Road rash: Cycling is only fun if the one doing the pavement cruising is the steed, not a cyclist’s…
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…
Road bike: Made of carbon fiber, titanium, steel, or aluminum, road bikes come in a range of shapes and sizes to fit the athletic…
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…
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…
bonk: n., v. cycling’s classic term for blowing up, hitting the wall, or otherwise expiring in midride. Can be caused by — and is…
Live Love Ride blocking n. getting in the way of slow down in front of rival riders, to help a teammate get ahead on…
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…
Need a Quick Release? velodrome: an oval banked track for bicycle racing.
ergometer: a stationary, bicycle-like device with adjustable pedal resistance used in physiological testing or for indoor training.
Meach Cycles Chicago VO: the maximum amount of oxygen that can be consumed during all-out exertion. This is a key indicator of a person’s…
May Use Full Lane – Get Over It ultra cycling: used to describe the side of the sport involving the longest endurance events. Also…
saddle time: time spent cycling.
hamstrings: the muscle on the back of the thigh, not well developed by cycling.
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.…
crosstraining: combining sports for mental refreshment and physical conditioning, especially during cycling’s off-season.
cleat: a metal or plastic fitting on the sole of a cycling shoe that engages the pedal.
aerodynamic: a design of cycling equipment or a riding position that reduces wind resistance; aero for short.
I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task – when my heart…
Look for Cyclists Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as…
Look Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a…
Living with a Bicycle Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it,…
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…
Live Love Ride His voice was so gravelly I could drive a truck on it. And I would have, but I came carrying my…
You Own a Car, Not the Road I took the wheels of my bike off in support of your bicycle race to support bike…
I have too many bikes, yeah right! Having sex on a motorcycle wouldn’t only be exciting, it’d be dangerous. What if while we were…
Work Sucks! I’m going riding… Somebody took my bicycle tire, my bicycle seat, and both my pedals. They stole my whole unicycle! – Jarod…
Weight Weenie I hit a car, but it wasn’t my fault. The bicyclist who rear ended me is to blame. – Jarod Kintz
A Day Without Cycling is a Wasted Day I’m not a bicycle. Don’t try to ride me and leave me in the garage. I’m…
Velorution But I pushed and pulled in vain, the wheels would not turn. It was as though the brakes were jammed, and heaven knows…
Bicycle – The brand is not important, the fact that you ride is! I work at a newspaper. I’m not a journalist; I’m a…
There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Travel Together Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Take a Ride with Me I’d rather ride two unicycles at the same time than one bicycle twice – Jarod Kintz
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…
Stop Looking at my Nipples I want to buy a sports car, because I like riding bicycles. Hold on to my handlebar mustache if…
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…
Slipstreaming The process whereby a rider reduces their wind resistance by sheltering behind another rider.
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. – Scott Westerfeld
Save Our Bicyclists I had a dream about you. You were on a bike going 70 miles an hour, I could see you approaching…
Same Roads, Same Rules, Same Rights “You know, bicycling isn’t just a matter of balance,” I said. “it’s a matter of faith. You can…
Rule # 12 The correction number of bicycles to own is n+1.
Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand. – Matt Hoffman
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…
Ride Your Bicycle My favorite courses are nasty, technical downhills that frighten my mom. – Josh Ivey
Ride and Shine Downhill’s the future of the sport. Cross-country’s not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one…
Ride Longer, Live Longer I’m fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to ge to the finish, they hang…
I picked my head up during an interval and saw an enormous ostrich zigzagging in the road. I swung wide to get by –…
Ride it, like you stole it. A mountain bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the…
Ride He’s dancing on the pedals in an immodest way! – Phil Liggett
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…
Ride If you were a spectator on one of the mountain passes today, the super-light bikes would be little different in appearance from the…
Ride Bicycles Winning never gets repetitive – Mat “Cashmoney” Glaser
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…
Ride Bicycle Company Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the…
Ride But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates…
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…
Ride You not bike rider, you nobody. – Eddie B
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…
reCycle It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the…
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…
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,…
I’m a pedestrian, cyclist and motorist, but only a potential killer in my car. – Anonymous
You are only one bicycle ride away from a good mood. When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a…
Bicycling, a quiet statement against oil wars. The bicycle, the bicycle, surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. – Christopher Morely
Nothing Compare to the simple please of a Bicycle ride.
Boredom greases the cogs in the machinery of marvels. Oh, God, will you be bored. The three days waiting for an Indonesian bureaucrat to…
All of our luggage was carried in a leather case which neatly fitted the inside angles of the bicycle frames. Our personal apparel consisted…
Every Day is a Bicycle Day There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; In this…
We had little difficulty in approximately laying out the route; but, concerning the roads that we might expect to encounter, we were unable to…
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…
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…