54 Quotes About Bicycle

But I pushed and pulled in vain, the wheels would not turn. It was as though the brakes were jammed, and heaven knows they were not, for my bicycle had no brakes. And suddenly overcome by a great weariness, in spite of the dying day when I always felt most alive, I threw the bicycle back in the bush and lay down on the ground, on the grass, careless of the dew, I never feared the dew.

Who’s going to rob a black man on a bicycle?

My bike in one of those old-fashioned cruisers, with a mint-green body.

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.

So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it is the point and not the problem; in which the project is to learn how not to ride the bicycle, how not to understand the poem. Or to put it the other way round, this would be a life in which getting it – the will to get it, the ambition to get it – was the problem; in which wanting to be an accomplice didn’t take precedence over making up one’s mind.

...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

This individual was actually the one who contacted investigators on the scene the morning of the fire and gave a statement that he was riding by on his bicycle by the home and saw the mother screaming from the second story window,

When the car's getting ready to turn at the first stop light, the bicycle will have already made it to the first stop.

If I happen to do (a bicycle kick), it'll probably be the last thing I do on the field, because I won't be able to move afterwards,