The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.
I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore.
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.
It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.
I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
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.
The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.
My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
It was eleven more than neccessary.
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!
I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.
Cycling is suffering.
I guess I just have bigger ovaries.
Downhill's the future of the sport. Cross-country's not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, I can do that. America likes to see people crash.
[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.
My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
[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.
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.
My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.
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