Cycling Quotes

[Adventure Girl]

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.

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

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!

[annie]

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

[han-grrl]

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....

[pedalfaster]

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

[betagirl]

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

[betagirl]

This one really is true isn't it?

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

[annie]

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

[pedalfaster]

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)

[Sparrow]

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.

[MM_QFC!]

"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!

[MM_QFC!]

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

[Irulan]

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...)

[MM_QFC!]

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

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