Bicycling

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. – Christopher Morley

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

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

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. – Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. – H.G. Wells

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. – Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist

A bicycle does get you there and more…. And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. – Bill Emerson, “On Bicycling,” Saturday Evening Post, 1967 July 29th

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. – Ann Strong

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. – James E. Starrs

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. – J.B. Jackson

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. – Jacquie Phelan

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. – Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle”

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. – Sloan Wilson

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

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

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. – John F. Kennedy

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

The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. – Amy Webster

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