Famous bicycling quotations

   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.
 ~ by Paul Scott Mowrer, The House of Europe

   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.
 ~ by H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   [T]he bicycle will accomplish more for women's sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged.
 ~ by Author Unknown, from Demerarest's Family Magazine, 1895

   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 swing wide, outflank that flower truck. The cross-street yellow light is turning red. You burst off the green like a surfer on a wave of metal. You have a hundred empty yards of Broadway to yourself.
 ~ by Chip Brown, A Bike and a Prayer

   When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.
 ~ by Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills

   Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
 ~ by Flann O'Brien

   The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
 ~ by John Howard

   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.
 ~ by Sloan Wilson

   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.
 ~ by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

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

   All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked.
 ~ by Amy Webster

   Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
 ~ by Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle

   Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice.
 ~ by Author unknown, from New Yorker, Talk of the Town

   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.
 ~ by Steve Johnson

   Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
 ~ by Jacquie Phelan

   If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures. Earth's revenge.
 ~ by Jo Burt (Thank you, Jacquie.)

   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.
 ~ by Bill Emerson, On Bicycling, Saturday Evening Post, 29 July 1967

   When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
 ~ by Diane Ackerman

   Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.
 ~ by Grant Petersen

   When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
 ~ by H.G. Wells

   The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
 ~ by Christopher Morley

   I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.
 ~ by Henry Miller, My Bike and Other Friends

   You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
 ~ by Daniel Behrman, The Man Who Loved Bicycles

   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.
 ~ by Ernest Hemingway



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