The finest mode of transport known to man.
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.
I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.
I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.
There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.
Cycling has given me everything.
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.
I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.
It never gets easier; you just go faster.
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.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
Before the Olympics, there's always been a part of me that's wanted to write a book about Women's cycling because there isn't one out there and I think there's a lot to be said.
Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].
I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.
I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.
When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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