“A sport is advanced by the handful of people who do it brilliantly, but it is kept sweet and sane by the great numbers of the mediocre, who do it for fun” –Elizabeth Coxhead
“My advice to you is that when you’re out on your bike, as often as possible, look up from your Garmin, heart rate monitor and bike computer, and look around and enjoy. Maybe even leave technology at home?” –xcmankan
“As magical as a shiny new set of wheels can be, any old bike can still get you where you need to go as long as you can ride it” –Kathleen Wilker
“Wearing a fluorescent jacket doesn’t mean that you no longer need to look where you are going.” –road.cc
“Cycling, like swimming, is a lifeskill that really ought to be taught early. But this can’t be forced. If the parents don’t cycle, they might not see cycling as a lifeskill at all”–Carlton Reid
“Every bike salmon constitutes an utterly gratuitous confrontation and escalation in the war between bicyclists and motorists.” –Felix Salmon
“In a a properly designed Traditional City, most people don’t need bicycles.” –Energy Bulletin
“The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget” –Mario Cipollini
Yep, more bike stuff.
“I just feel so free and just like I’m lovin’ every minute of life and it’s…it helps. It’s therapy for me, y’know pedallin’” –Steven Marmo, The New York Times