Quotes About Cycling

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

E.T., je comprends pourquoi tu t'es barré à vélo en plein ciel. A ta place j'aurais continué de pédaler jusqu'à Pluton sans me retourner.

The study found that after two hours of intense cycling, the number of monocytes (another type of immune system white blood cell) in subjects' bloodstreams took a dip. But those who were given the equivalent of about three-quarters of a teaspoon of nutritional yeast before they exercised ended up with even higher levels of monocytes than when they started working out.

I've heard one or two riders refer to the odd night out as 'morale training'. It's a good expression for it. It's got the word 'training' in it, so it's got to be a good idea.

Bicycles are the world's greatest invention, objects of beauty, works of art, the tools of the trade. Most cyclists' initial attraction to the sport has at least something to do with bikes themselves, and this is something that never leaves them.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel,

and heading for the next, running the first horse into the second corral, throwing the saddle on the next bronc and then heading down the line to the next place and the next until winding up back at the first place just about at

Just follow your front wheel.

I startled it. No, I shocked it profoundly—and it transmitted to me the full impact of that shock. Its multisensory illusions felt more real than things that actually happened, and this was worse than an illusion. This was a sudden, swift cycling of its own intense surprise and fear. From me to it to me. Closed loop. I

The amazing thing about being a bike rider is that you always know from the first turn of the pedals what sort of a day you are going to have.