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For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever creat

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

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Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside. – Jim Malusa

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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

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With humans, it is like the bicycle. Only when moving can we easily keep balanced. – Albert Einstein, letter to son Eduard, 1930 February 5th, translated from German

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There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. – Paul Scott Mowrer, The House of Europe

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