106 Quotes About Cycling

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.

If I ever find myself living a life that has already been lived, I am a prodigal son wasting away my inheritance. I might as well stop calling it “living” and refer to it by its true name: decomposing.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.

We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.