famous bicycle quotes...

[Paulus]

"I will never touch another bike". Bernard Hinault when he finished his last race and retired..... Untill this year when the old urge got the better of him and he has started riding agian.

 

[spandex]

"Every time a cyclist jumps a red light god kill a kitten"

from a sign on the wall at work

 

[Keith Oates]

There are some good ones there that I've never heard before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[asterix]

some journalist paraphrasing a reply to a question...not Tom Simpson.

With great care, I failed to attribute the saying! However, can it be proved either way? I rather doubt it.

As for 'Third Policeman' I can't help thinking that's where bonj gets his information.

 

[girofan]

Fausto Coppi: Ride a bike, ride a bike, ride a bike!

Anon: Eddy Merckx could win the TdF on my bike. I couldn't win it on his!

Barry Hoban: When asked by his DS why he attacked on a descent.
"Well DS Magne, we race down the hills as well as up?"

Eddy Merckx: It's not the cake that is bad for you, it's the hills!

 

[girofan]

"Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport."
-Bernard Hinault on Cycling

Yep, in his case money and power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Isn't there one about there being no more noble invention than a bicycle? Can't remember it...

Possibly the one from "Hovel in the Hills" by Elizabeth West. I'll look it up when I get home.

 

[yello]

Seems like Elizabeth West has some good things to say about bicycles. I've not heard of her before so will have to found out more.

I particularly liked the one posted earlier....

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.

 

[mr_hippo]

"Only a fool would imagine it is possible to ride Bordeaux-Paris on just water." A famous paraphrased quote but who said it?

 

[asterix]

Pour vivre heureux, vivons le velo.

 

[asterix]

"Only a fool would imagine it is possible to ride Bordeaux-Paris on just water." A famous paraphrased quote but who said it?

Jacques Anquetil. Autre temps, autre mœurs.

 

[mr_hippo]

^Correct!

 

[andyfromotley]

In the same conversation he also said '
'that if you think we can do what we do without doping you are an imbecile. Look at my thighs theyre like pin cushions!'

An interestingly honest view on events methinks.

My favourite

'it never gets easier, you just go quicker' - Greg LeMonde

Andy