Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
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.
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 the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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.
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.
It never gets easier; you just go faster.
Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.
I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
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.
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
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
I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.
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