“Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless.” ~ Zapata Espinoza

“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.” ~ Bill Nye

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

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“Bicycles are the indicator species of a community, like shellfish in a bay.” ~ P. Martin Scott

Claude Pepper

“Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you plan to stop pedaling.” ~ Claude Pepper

“Cyclers see considerable more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to.” ~ Dr. K. K. Doty

“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

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

“When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!” ~ Jens Voigt

“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls” ~ Bob Weir, Grateful Dead

“The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.” ~ Susan B. Anthony

“Bicycles have no walls.” ~ Paul Cornish

“Never use your face as a brake pad.” ~ Jake Watson

“You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bicycling.” ~ Greg LeMond

Carl Sagan

“If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.” ~ Carl Sagan

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

“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” ~ William Saroyan

“A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke.” ~ Scott Stoll

“A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness.” ~ James E. Starrs

“The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it’s fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it’s not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.” ~ Stephen G. Breyer

“Brains before beauty, wear your helmet!” – Unknown

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

Greg Lemond

“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” ~ Greg LeMond

“There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles.” ~ Tom Kunich

“I like riding a bicycle build for two – by myself.” ~ Harry S. Truman

“Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.” ~ Unknown

“Work to eat. Eat to live. Live to bike. Bike to work.” ~ Unknown

“When you’re turning the crankset, you’re riding the bike. When you’re coasting, you’re just along for the ride.” ~ Ned Overend

“A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk.” ~ Simon Peat

“The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it.” ~ Doug Bradbury

“Death may have no master, but the bicycle is, most emphatically, not its slave.” ~ James E Starts

Eddy Merckx

“Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” ~ Eddy Merckx

“It’s the first machine we master as children and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over.” ~ Colman Mc Cartly

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

“A mountain bike is like your buddy. A road bike is your lover.” ~ Sean Coffey

“Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it.” ~ Hallman

“I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle.” ~ Unknown

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

“Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people.” ~ Chip Brown

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