“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

I personally have two:

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs

Because I am soon to be married, I find this one quite comical to share with the riding community )

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

You go Ann – scream it to the world!!

“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” by Charles M. Schulz

For city bicycling to catch on we need a revolution in our society’s infrastructure. Right now a city rider needs to be a road warrior, and the bike needs to be cheap and ugly so it won’t get stolen. That’s not a bike friendly culture.

- Gary Fisher

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.

–Ernest Hemingway

“Never a bad time to ride”

“Every hour on a bike is an hour spent in perfect balance” Jacquie Phelan

“Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine!”. -Gary Fisher

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ” Mark Twain

(although I believe Mr. Twain was suggesting that the old fashioned “big wheeled” bikes of his day were dangerous… I think the quote is still appropriate today due to the danger of all the “big wheeled” SUVs speeding down our streets.

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” — H.G. Wells

You never have the wind with you – either it is against you or you’re having a good day. ~Daniel Behrman

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.” Lance Armstrong

“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” – Freddy Mercury of Queen

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 you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

– Ernest Hemingway

“Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles.” –Edward Abbey

“I´d rather buy a 10.000 euro bike than a car”

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”

- John F. Kennedy

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

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 the Science Guy

Don’t upgrade. Ride up grades. -Eddy Mercx

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring. –Desmond Tutu

Riding or Hiding?

You don’t quit riding
because you get old,
You get old because
you quit riding

I’ve never heard anything more true about the bike industry than, “Cheap, Light, Strong. Pick two” -Keith Bontrager.

“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels”
— Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian revolutionary

‘Cycling is like church. Participate, many people do; understand, many people do not.’ Ted SorbaCSRA chapter.

The bicycle will accomplish more for women’s sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ~Author Unknown

I’ve got a bike, you can ride it if you like.
It’s got a basket, a bell that rings
And things to make it look good.
I’d give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
-Syd Barrett

@Lauren Kessler
I guess that depends on your definition of sensible dress. Take a look at Copenhagen on a Saturday evening, and you’ll see everything from miniskirts with stilettos to sealskin coats with fashionable wellingtons.

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~H.G. Wells

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. ~James Bethea

Nobody cares that you ride a fixe.

It was 1996 at Specialized Cactus Cup on Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia. The racers are staging in the start area before the men’s xc epic. A 10 year old boy is scouring the racers in the coaral and he yells out to one:

“Hey, are you Ned Overend?”

Ned replies, “Why yes I am.”

the kid says emphatically, “Sweet!” then jumps on his bike and rides away.

“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, The House of Europe

The beauty of a bike is experienced as one glances across the precipice and beholds the wonder of creation. ~ abe 2010

@allison the very one I’ve always loved

allison :Don’t upgrade. Ride up grades. -Eddy Mercx

Always been my favorite as well…

Every pedal stroke enhances my life- linda guerrrette

Everytime a see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race. -HG Wells