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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0382 – Bicycle with a Heart
When one compares the energy consumed in moving a certain distance as a function of body weight fot a variety of animals and machines, one finds that an unaided walking man does fairly well (consuming about 0.75 calories per gram per kilometer), but he is not as efficient as a horse, a salmon or a […]
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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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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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0587 – Bicycle Heart Girl
crosstraining: combining sports for mental refreshment and physical conditioning, especially during cycling’s off-season.
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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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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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0293 – Fast Bicycle
Fast Bicycle One of my favorite things about biking vs driving: When I used to drive, I always drove with my doors locked… I would play my stereo, and mostly avoid any contact with other drivers on the road (just stayed in my gas-guzzling bot). But now, I ride my bike and oddly enough, I’m […]
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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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0344 – I Love BMX
I Love Bicycles Devised almost 200 years ago by a practical German baron, the bicycle has evolved into an urban staple. Beloved of children, prized by inner-city commuters, it can be a lifesaver when summer smog chokes the nation. – Globe and Mail
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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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0371 – A Metre Matters
A Metre Matters At first, cycling was denounced from the pulpit as a pastime on a par with drinking and gambling – deplorable at the best of times, and when indulged in on a Sunday, a sure road to hell. – Gurdon S Leete
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0358 – Break them Effectively
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. It’s depressing when a butterfly passes you going up hill – Unknown
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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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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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0244 – Bicycle inside a Cog
Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless. – Zapata Espinoza
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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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0615 – Our Chains Set Us Free
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 skin. A spill can leave riders with painful scrapes, especially on the thighs, hips, and butt — the body parts that usually hit the ground first. To avoid pounding the pavement, […]
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0161 – Bicycle in Your Heart
The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. – Amy Webster
0598 – Melodic Cycle
ergometer: a stationary, bicycle-like device with adjustable pedal resistance used in physiological testing or for indoor training.
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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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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
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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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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
0102 – Skull and Cog (no bones)
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. – John Howard
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0253 – Life is Like a Pedal
Life is Like A Pedal They Can Push You Down But You’ll Always Come Back Up
0032 – Smashed One
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles M. Schulz
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0383 – Bicycle Lungs
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 […]
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 […]
0241 – Chain Link Star
A road rider who is not practiced is merely an athlete on a bike, half educated, a pedaler not a complete cyclist. – Maynard Hershon
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0353 – Lady on her Bicycle
It’s the closest you can get to flying. – Robin Williams
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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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0147 – Race Bicycle
Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that — where there’s only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you’d fall over. Your legs wouldn’t support you. – Steve Johnson
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0336 – Improve Your Day
How To Improve Your Day Step 1 : Ride Your Bicycle Step 2 : Repeat Step 1
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0077 – Bicycle Forever
Forever My favorite movie ever is ‘Bicycle Thieves.’ – Jennifer Morrison
0417 – Linked In
Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless. – Zapata Espinoza
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0469 – Love the Bicycle
Don’t Love the Brand, Love the Bicycle. 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 […]
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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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0324 – Guerilla Bicycles
The world is my church, the wind in my ears is the choir and my handlebars are the alter I pray at. – Zcubed
0108 – C is for Cycling
Cycling 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 G. Golding
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0542 – Ride Longer, Live Longer
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 on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It’s not their force per se that impresses me, but rather […]
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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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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
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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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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0532 – Bicycle Company
Ride Bicycle Company 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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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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0270 – Cycling Family
Cycling Family A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
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0207 – Bicycle inside your Heart
I would rather ride my bike with a headwind, then to drive my car in heavy traffic on downtown street. – Tobias
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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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0221 – Ride Bicycles Company
Ride Bicycles Company There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles. – Tom Kunich
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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0372 – May Use Full Lane
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
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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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0343 – I Like To Ride Bikes
I like to ride bicycles Your bicycle helps you meet other people. Your bicycle always goes where you want to go. And if you buy your bicycle a box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day, you get to eat them all. – Scott Martin
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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0409 – Bicycle Highway 1
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
0369 – Eye of Cog
Mohammed was a walking Messenger. When the Muslims first saw Christian missionaries mounted upon bicycles, they stoned the gentle souls, for the contraption seemed to have come from the devil. – William Saroan
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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
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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0100 – 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
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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 […]
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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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0455 – Bicycle 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
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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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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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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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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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0448 – The Bicycle Solution
The Bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world’s most complicated problems.
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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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0004 – Happy Cyclist
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn’t what I was after […]
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0230 – Cool Bicycle
Cool Bicycle Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades. – Anonymous
0321 – Only Chainring
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
0091 – P(ride)
When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn’t have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal – having lost a few good ones in New York – and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around […]
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0453 – Too Many Bikes, Yeah Right
I have too many bikes, yeah right! What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn’t seem to matter what […]
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0205 – Bicycle Nomenclature
I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again. – Michelle Pfeiffer
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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
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0330 – Happy Birthday Bicycle
Commuting by bicycle is an absolutely essential part of my day. It’s mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out. – James L. Jones
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0094 – When in Doubt
When in doubt, pedal it out… I’ve worked behind counters serving food, and I’ve lived on the circus train, and I’ve led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I’ve been a key liner for a newspaper, I’ve done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things. – Bonnie Jo Campbell
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0352 – Life is a Highway
If life is a highway, I will be on the back roads! The computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. – Steve Jobs
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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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0501 – Long Ride
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
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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
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0288 – Drug of Choice
Drug of Choice People like to travel: that is why the grass is greener over the fence. We are walkers, our natural means of travel is to put one foot in front of the other. The bicycle seduces our basic nature by making walking exciting. It lets us take 10-foot strides at 160 paces a […]
0085 – Missing Link
If you see me in New York, you’ll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them. – Denis O’Hare
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0574 – Too Many Bicycles
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 parked we got broadsided by a speeding bicycle? – Jarod Kintz
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0342 – I Like Your BIKE
I like your bicycle The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that. – Gordon Brown
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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.
0449 – Sun Rides
Sun Rides What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn’t seem to matter what sport it was–in a straight-ahead, […]
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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 […]
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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
0015 – Bicycle of the Heart
0015 – Bicycle of the Heart Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. – Brian Tracy
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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!
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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0416 – Riding ina Heart Beat
Ride Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. – Keith Bontrager
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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0115 – Give Way Bicycle
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
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0551 – Same Roads, Same Rules, Same Rights
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 keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I’m going to call that the Bicyclist’s Philosophy of Life.” – Susan Vreeland, […]
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 […]