Pick your bike racer quote of the year
Podium Cafe lists a couple of dozen quotes uttered by current and former pro cyclists during the past year and asks for our favorite. The list has a few Lance Armstrong tweets about Alberto Contador...
View ArticleBike quote: Naked cycling brings helmet lecture
“They were more shocked than I was, trying to cover up their bits and pieces with their hands.” – New Zealand policewoman describing the reactions of two naked men on bicycles she stopped in a coastal...
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Mark Twain learns to ride a bicycle
"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live." -- Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle" 1917 This is one of my favorite Mark Twain quotes and most apt for this blog. I mention it now because today...
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Bicycle quote: Do-it-yourselfer builds unique, no-cost bikes
“The most expensive bike I have cost me $3 because I had to buy some pieces for it. Everything else is just garbage that was given to me. I am brazen enough that if I am riding around and see some...
View ArticleQuote: Bike traveler comes home
"A lot of people ask me why I went east to west because the winds are predominantly west to east, and part of the reason was I that I like the idea of heading home. It's just kind of a goal that you...
View ArticleBicycle quote: Lance Armstrong's Tour de France
"Lance lost this Tour for bad luck. Physically, there’s no reason to believe that he couldn’t have been competitive in this Tour. He came to this Tour in good shape with real ambitions to win. We knew...
View ArticleQuote: Wrongly accused man dreamed of going for a bike ride
"He knew his name was cleared before he left. He wanted to be baptized again, and I thank God he got to do that. He wanted to ride a bicycle and he got to do that. He had been locked up for 32 years."...
View ArticleBicycle quote: Official discourages winter bicycling
“Unfortunately it takes something bad like this to happen to learn that you can’t be doing this. It was just a very tragic accident, that’s the bottom-line.” Madison County (NY) Undersheriff John Ball...
View ArticleBicycle quote: “Sick and tired” of cyclists….
"I'm sick and tired of you old guys from Boulder coming up here and acting like you own the road." That's how a roadside argument started on a county road south of Loveland, Colorado, between a...
View ArticleBicycle quote: LA makes bicycles legit
"Hold on to your hats, folks, we're actually removing a lane for a car — in favor of a bike lane — in Los Angeles. By doing so, we, as a city, are changing the way we see bicycles, as not only a...
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