Cycling Quotes

Let's hear some of your favorite cycling quotes. Or post one that applies to your situation. Here's one that totally defines my ride on Sunday.

Quote:

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Originally by Daniel Behrman
You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

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On the way out I was flying—big ring even on the big climbs! It felt great! I was really surprised how great I felt because I mountain biked on Saturday and my legs should have been kind of dead. So I get to the turn-around point and instantlyI feel like I'm riding with lead legs! So was it a tail wind on the way out? Ummm, no… I'm going to say that it was flat, calm and I was just master of the bike for half the ride. Then, coincidentally, the moment I turned around, the gusts picked up!;)

Here's one of many quotes I like -

"Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds._ The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own._" ~Louis J. Helle, Jr., Spring in Washington

Ride with wings, ladies!

annie

this is what we put on our wedding invitation, i found it in a list of quotes related to bicycling:

"love doesn't make the world go round, its what makes the ride worthwhile"

aaaaw.... :)

I've been climbing a lot lately so I'll quote Richard Virenque:

" You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there."

Yeah baby :cool:

I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like. -Freddie Mercury

This one really is true isn't it?

It never gets easier, you just go faster. -Greg Lemond

You've probably all read this one, but here is is anyway. Very appropriate for a womens' cycling site.......

"I'll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."

- Susan B. Anthony

Annie thanks for the Susan B. quote.

My personal take? The three most important inventions for women:

1. Birth control pills

2. Jog-bras

3. The bicycle

(not in any particular order)

:D

Fat bottomed girls

They'll be riding today
So look out for those beauties, oh yeah!
--Queen

and ...

Live to ride. Ride to work. Work to accessorize. :D

"We never know how good we are,
until we are called to ride."

- Emily ****inson

hmmm, didn't know she was a rider as well as a writer!

but TE's word censors may be working overtime...can't get Emily's surname to print out completely girls!

that is the most hilarious censoring I've ever seen on a board.

Substitute an asterisk for one letter

Emily D*ckinson

that should work.

~I

(don't ask me how I know these things...)

Irulan said " (don't ask me how I know these things...)"

chuckling as that could be an entertaining new thread, no?