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Conversations In Biking
By Tammy Ruggles

Some say they do it for the exercise, some say they do it for the rush, some say they do it for the competition; still others say they do it to get close to nature. The following quotes just may inspire you to bring out a bicycle and try it again for yourself, or ride with family and friends. It’s a good form of exercise, and there are intangible benefits as well, so if this interests you, read on:

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you´ll crash.--Julie Furtado.

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day´s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay´s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else´s heart.--Diane Ackerman.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.--John Howard.

Cyclists worship legs.--Nelson Pena.

I mountain bike to appreciate nature, take responsibility for what I was given to enjoy, and leave it intact.--Jimena Florit, pro mountain bike racer.

It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.--Author Unknown.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.--Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle.

Everything or nothing at all.--Jan Ullrich.

Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the back country.--Ned Overend, former world champion mountain bike racer

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man´s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man´s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.--Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills.

Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.-- Stuart S. Wilson.

It is easy to be a holy man on a mountain bike.--Mike W. Matson.

Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.--William Golding.

What do you call a cyclist who doesn´t wear a helmet? An organ donor.--David Perry.

All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet.--Karl Kron, Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.--Grant Petersen.

A champion of yesterday will be a champion today and today´s champion will be a champion tomorrow. Champion riders are similar because they have the natural physical characteristics to start with and then they have to do a lot of work.--Eddy Merckx.

I thought of that (the theory of relativity) while riding my bike.--Albert Einstein, scientist.

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn´t need a lock.--Unknown.

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.--Grant Petersen.

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you´re having a good day.--Daniel Behrman, The Man Who Loved Bicycles.

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.

If you brake, you don’t win.--Mario Cipollini.

It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they´re out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle´s simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep.--Gurdon S. Leete.

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.--H.G. Wells.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.--Ernest Hemingway.

If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn´t get so many punctures. Earth´s revenge.--Jo Burt.

Everything is bicycle.--Stephen Crane.

Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.--James Bethea.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.--H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance.

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it, start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It’ll grow and it gets better and better and better.--Richard Ballantine.

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