Cycling sayings

[Pale Rider]

A thread for wise - or foolish - cycling sayings.

One I like is: "There's a bike for every ride."

I reckon that's true, whatever ride I do I could envisage a more suitable bike than one of my three, if I had the choice of every bike available.

Another I've mentioned elsewhere is: "No one ever got fit riding a light bike."

Some truth in that, although I suppose you would get fit on a 7kg carbon roadie if you did enough miles.

My third starter contribution: "The only way to get fit is to do the hills."

That's another true one, you won't get fit bowling along on level ground with a tail wind.

Over to you.

 

[mjr]

"Stop talking so much bollocks about cycling"?

 

[Pale Rider]

"Stop talking so much bollocks about cycling"?

Steady on, if we all did that there would be no more CycleChat.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Oi! Cyclewankers!

 

[MontyVeda]

one for the optimists...

It's only flat at the bottom.

 

[Dayvo]

'My favourite ride? The next one.'

 

[Ian H]

What goes down must go up again.

 

[steveindenmark]

You must go slower to go further.

 

[Ian H]

Two favourites from Nev Chanin, cyclotourist and tour organiser:-
1) "Time is miles."
2) "You're not here to enjoy yourselves, this is a cycle tour."

 

[Fab Foodie]

Measure your rides in Smiles not Miles.

 

[wheresthetorch]

"Always fit round wheels"

 

[Globalti]

The one about no one getting fit by riding a light bike is nonsense; as with shorter or longer cranks a cyclist simply selects a gear that best matches their power output irrespective of slope, bike weight or crank length.

You get fitter by riding faster and harder and a lightweight bike encourages you to do just that, believe me.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

My favourite one is the Lemond quote:
"It never gets any easier, you just get faster".

 

[dim]

If you want to run with the wolves, you need to learn how to p*ss on the trot

 

[T4tomo]

Shut up legs!