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Correct Number of Bicycles to Own You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bicycling. – Greg LeMond
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Bike Love found a whole philosophy of life in the wooing and winning of my bicycle. – Frances Willard
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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
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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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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
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It’s not the DESTINATION… …it’s the glory of THE RIDE
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Just Ride A Story that appeared in a Cycling Magazine a few years ago was written by a guy was trying to cope with being alone with a broken marriage and a divorce when he found out his wife had been unfaithful. His Mother kept suggesting that he get therapy to help him through but […]
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
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Same Roads Same Rules Same Rights It was eleven more than necessary. – Jacques Anquetil
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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
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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, The Wheels of Chance
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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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Cyclocross Death may have no master, but the bicycle is, most emphatically, not its slave. – James E Starts
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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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Slipstreaming The process whereby a rider reduces their wind resistance by sheltering behind another rider.
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Bicycle to Work Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. – Louis J. Helle
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
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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Cycling Family A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk. – Simon Peat
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You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a bicycle and that’s pretty close.
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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.
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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 […]
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Don’t Touch My Bicycle I ride because I am addicted to the endorphins and to the adrenaline. I ride because the second my legs start turning circles I become a happier person. I ride because I love to feel the wind on my face and listen to the birds and bugs. I ride because it […]
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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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The bitterness of poor quality remain long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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Cyclorama Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride. – Eddy Merckx
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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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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aerodynamic: a design of cycling equipment or a riding position that reduces wind resistance; aero for short.
Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people. – Chip Brown
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Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of being flogged by the local wheelmen, along with the fieldhands, the postman, and a young Tennessee Williams. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to his plays. – Truman Capote
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Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward. – George Weah
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Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless. – Zapata Espinoza
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How To Improve Your Day Step 1 : Ride Your Bicycle Step 2 : Repeat Step 1
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The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget. – Mario Cipollini
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To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman. – Jacques Anquetil
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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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Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. – Bob Weir
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
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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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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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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 […]
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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Ride Your Bicycle My favorite courses are nasty, technical downhills that frighten my mom. – Josh Ivey
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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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An engineer designing from scratch could hardly concoct a better device to unclog modern roads – cheap, nonpolluting, small and silent… – Rick Smith
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You You What Lies Outside Of Your Comfort Zone Opportunity
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Let’s Ride 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 fiber monocoque monoblade. […]
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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
ergometer: a stationary, bicycle-like device with adjustable pedal resistance used in physiological testing or for indoor training.
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Take One Ride Twice Daily side effects may include: loss of weight, reduced stress, happiness
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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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The world is my church, the wind in my ears is the choir and my handlebars are the alter I pray at. – Zcubed
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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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There’s a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before – that is mind-boggling. It’s worth everything. – Lene Hau
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. – John Howard
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. – Bob Weir
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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
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 […]
The bicycle will accomplish more for women’s sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ~Demerarest’s Family
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Look for Cyclists Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere – when all she’d ever trained […]
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Riding A Stationary Bike, Is Like Having Virtual Sex. You May Sweat While You’re Doing It,But It’s Nothing compared to the Real Thing.
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Travel Together Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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The Bicycle is a simple solution to some of the world’s most complicated problems.
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Good Few people realize that when you move the seatpost an innocent inch or two you are changing the action of every muscle in the lower limb which is involved in the pedaling action.
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Let’s Go Ride A stationary bike is a device that epitomizes the phrase “hurry up and wait.” – Jarod Kintz
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Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand. – Matt Hoffman
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Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. – James E. Starrs
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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 […]
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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Smooth, predictable riding when you’re in a group isn’t just a matter of style. It’s survival. – Geoff Drake
Curved Cranks Designed to overcome dead centre : gives fast pedaling action. Adopted by the world’s best sprinters.
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Before the Down For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. – Bill Strickland
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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 […]
Bicycles Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? – Flann O’Brien
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Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you’re going to smash […]
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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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Bike It never gets easier, you just go faster. – Greg LeMond
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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
The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew and live through it. – Doug Bradbury
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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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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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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Go Out The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget. – Mario Cipollini
Cadence: The (hopefully smooth) rhythm of the crank arms (which attach pedals to bike) when pedaling –commonly called spinning.
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I find buying a bicycle is a great way to stay in touch with people. – Jan Chipchase
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 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 […]
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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
The grace and charm of the bicycle lend added warmth and contour to the persons of the lovers it joins. – James E
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. – Scott Westerfeld
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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
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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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Love 2 Ride Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike – Fausto Coppi
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Bike Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I’m in hog heaven. – Ryan Seacrest
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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
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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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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 […]