Your Favorite Cycling Quote

[Cycleops]

What's yours? I came across this lovely quote from Eddy Merckx and posted it on another thread. " Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades".

 

[cyberknight]

As long as I breathe, I attack

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bernard_hinault.html

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." James E. Starrs

 

[ACS]

Eat less, move more

 

[Haitch]

"You need someone in front of you to break the wind" Eddy Merckx on drafting

 

[Leaway2]

"I have been on my deathbed, and I'm not stupid. I can emphatically say I am not on drugs." LA

 

[jonny jeez]

"How light is it?."

 

[Leaway2]

But my all time favorite is "chain looks a bit slack". It always brings a smile to my face every time I see it.

 

[helston90]

"You won't get the ass you want sitting on the one you've got" oh wait sorry- I mean "Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." John F. Kennedy, Former U.S. President because it's true- so simple but so enjoyable.

 

[User269]

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.

Mark Twain.

 

[theclaud]

Participatory democracy demands low-energy technology, and free people must travel the road to productive social relations at the speed of a bicycle.

Ivan Illich, Energy & Equity

 

[yello]

Perhaps overly sanctimonious (which is partly why I like it)...

"Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers - those people ride a bike."

~Wolfgang Sachs, of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and the former Chairman of Greenpeace, Germany.

I think of it in an ironic way so reckon it'd be a cracker to wind anti-cyclists up!

 

[jefmcg]

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

(love '70s feminism!)

 

[brodiej]

"The high saddle," said the Sergeant, "was invented by a party called Peters that spent his ice in foreign parts riding on camels and other lofty animals - giraffes, elephant and birds that can run like hares and lay eggs the size of the bowl you see in a steam laundry where they keep the chemical water for taking the tar out of men's pants. When he came home from the wars he thought hard of sitting on a low saddle and one night accidentally when he was in bed he invented the high saddle as the outcome of his perpetual cerebration and mental researches. The high saddle was the father of the low handlebars. It crucifies the fork and gives you a blood rush in the head, it is very sore on the internal organs.""which of the organs?" I inquired."both of them," said the sergeant.

Flann O'brien
Third Policeman

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people

Jensie