UNQUOTABLE QUOTES
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on the end-to-end. We shall cycle in the cities, we shall cycle alongside the seas and rivers, we shall cycle with growing confidence and growing strength in the saddle, we shall defend our few feet of space, whatever the cost may be, we shall cycle on the A-roads, we shall cycle on the B-roads, we shall cycle in the lanes and in the streets, we shall cycle up the hills; we shall never surrender our handlebars.
Sir Winston Chainwheel
They can have my mountain bike when
they pry my cold, dead fingers from it.
American saying, sometimes attributed to Joe Breezey
I cycle, therefore I am.
Dizzy Descartes
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways
he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving
offense. And that's just the bike messengers.
Thomas Carmile
The lanes are lovely, quiet and steep.
But I have my 'personal best' time to beat,
And miles to go before I sleep,
Shower, Dinner, then some sleep.
Robert 'Don't Fence Me In' Frosting
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the motorist who
cuts me up, the courage to cycle alongside him, and the
wisdom to refrain from attacking him like a rabid dog.
Rudy Niebuhr
Bicycle is a bicycle is a bicycle is a bicycle.
You can even quote me on that.
Girdle Stein
We all of us live too much in a roundabout.
Benjamin Derailleur
You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Hatchet, overheard talking to Denis
while captaining a tandem.
In the new code of laws which I suppose it will
be necessary for you to make I desire you would
remember the cyclists, and be more generous and
favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not
put such unlimited power into the hands of the
motorists. Remember all motorists would
be tyrants if they could.
Abseil Adams
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and White Van Man.
Franklin Hooverbelt
When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,
must be integrated transport policy.
Sureluck Holmes
Freewheeling at last,
Freewheeling at last,
Thank God Almighty,
I'm freewheeling at last.
Anonymous spiritual
I have a dream that one day on the gray pavement
the sons of cyclists and the sons of pedestrians
will be able to coexist in brotherhood.
Martin Luther Kingcycle
What is the sound of one hand signaling?
Zen riddle
A journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single crank-turn.
Lazy-Too
Know then thy route, presume not signs to scan;
The proper study of mankind is maps.
Al Pope
For we that live to cycle must cycle to live.
Sam 'The Man' Johnson
Nice guy, great talker, but I wouldn't want to be his stoker.
James Boozewell
The mass of commuters lead lives of quiet desperation.
Hank Thoreau
Beware of all enterprises that require a change into Lycra.
Ib
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
man in possession of a bicycle, must be in want of another one.
Jane Austin-Healy
I only regret that I had but one bicycle.
Nathan Not-so-Hale
Cyclists? Bastards. I hunt them.
Prince Phillips-Head
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Road-Rage
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are avoiding the cars.
Oscar Mild
Is that a spanner in your packet, or are you just happy to see me?
Mae Jest
Sometimes a pump is just a pump.
Sigmund Fraud
Winter is icumen in,
Cyclists sing Goddamn,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Ezra Euro
'Tis better to have cycled and fallen
Than never to have cycled at all.
Alfred, Lord Comma
To stop or not to stop, that is the question;
the light is red, but my heart is green.
Christopher Marlowe
If I have cycled further it is by sitting upon the saddle of a fast tourer.
Sir Isaac Nuisance
**** is other people. In cars.
Jean Paul Smartass
Two wheels good, four wheels bad.
A pig contemplating a bike
Cars are different from bikes. They have more wheels.
Ernest Motorway
Men seldom make passes
At speedier lasses.
Dorothy Parkithere
How many flat tyres must one man patch,
Before you can call him a man?
Ralph Dylan
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
Moani Mitchell
Hitch your bicycle to a star.
Or a roof rack on a car.
Where's Waldo Emerson
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for one more ride.
Ib.
And so to bike.
Samuel Peeps
Cycling Today, April 2000
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on the end-to-end. We shall cycle in the cities, we shall cycle alongside the seas and rivers, we shall cycle with growing confidence and growing strength in the saddle, we shall defend our few feet of space, whatever the cost may be, we shall cycle on the A-roads, we shall cycle on the B-roads, we shall cycle in the lanes and in the streets, we shall cycle up the hills; we shall never surrender our handlebars.
Sir Winston Chainwheel
They can have my mountain bike when
they pry my cold, dead fingers from it.
American saying, sometimes attributed to Joe Breezey
I cycle, therefore I am.
Dizzy Descartes
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways
he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving
offense. And that's just the bike messengers.
Thomas Carmile
The lanes are lovely, quiet and steep.
But I have my 'personal best' time to beat,
And miles to go before I sleep,
Shower, Dinner, then some sleep.
Robert 'Don't Fence Me In' Frosting
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the motorist who
cuts me up, the courage to cycle alongside him, and the
wisdom to refrain from attacking him like a rabid dog.
Rudy Niebuhr
Bicycle is a bicycle is a bicycle is a bicycle.
You can even quote me on that.
Girdle Stein
We all of us live too much in a roundabout.
Benjamin Derailleur
You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Hatchet, overheard talking to Denis
while captaining a tandem.
In the new code of laws which I suppose it will
be necessary for you to make I desire you would
remember the cyclists, and be more generous and
favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not
put such unlimited power into the hands of the
motorists. Remember all motorists would
be tyrants if they could.
Abseil Adams
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and White Van Man.
Franklin Hooverbelt
When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,
must be integrated transport policy.
Sureluck Holmes
Freewheeling at last,
Freewheeling at last,
Thank God Almighty,
I'm freewheeling at last.
Anonymous spiritual
I have a dream that one day on the gray pavement
the sons of cyclists and the sons of pedestrians
will be able to coexist in brotherhood.
Martin Luther Kingcycle
What is the sound of one hand signaling?
Zen riddle
A journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single crank-turn.
Lazy-Too
Know then thy route, presume not signs to scan;
The proper study of mankind is maps.
Al Pope
For we that live to cycle must cycle to live.
Sam 'The Man' Johnson
Nice guy, great talker, but I wouldn't want to be his stoker.
James Boozewell
The mass of commuters lead lives of quiet desperation.
Hank Thoreau
Beware of all enterprises that require a change into Lycra.
Ib
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
man in possession of a bicycle, must be in want of another one.
Jane Austin-Healy
I only regret that I had but one bicycle.
Nathan Not-so-Hale
Cyclists? Bastards. I hunt them.
Prince Phillips-Head
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Road-Rage
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are avoiding the cars.
Oscar Mild
Is that a spanner in your packet, or are you just happy to see me?
Mae Jest
Sometimes a pump is just a pump.
Sigmund Fraud
Winter is icumen in,
Cyclists sing Goddamn,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Ezra Euro
'Tis better to have cycled and fallen
Than never to have cycled at all.
Alfred, Lord Comma
To stop or not to stop, that is the question;
the light is red, but my heart is green.
Christopher Marlowe
If I have cycled further it is by sitting upon the saddle of a fast tourer.
Sir Isaac Nuisance
**** is other people. In cars.
Jean Paul Smartass
Two wheels good, four wheels bad.
A pig contemplating a bike
Cars are different from bikes. They have more wheels.
Ernest Motorway
Men seldom make passes
At speedier lasses.
Dorothy Parkithere
How many flat tyres must one man patch,
Before you can call him a man?
Ralph Dylan
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
Moani Mitchell
Hitch your bicycle to a star.
Or a roof rack on a car.
Where's Waldo Emerson
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for one more ride.
Ib.
And so to bike.
Samuel Peeps
Cycling Today, April 2000
