bicycle philosophy

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

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it.”
-Mark Twain, Taming the Bicycle-

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”
-John F. Kennedy-

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

“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls”
-Bob Weir, Grateful Dead-

“This is their hobby. They have bicycles instead of Porsches or golf clubs.”
-Jennifer Johnson-

“Bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people”
-Chip Brown-

“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires.”
-Leon Trotsky-

“The bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
-Christopher Morley (American author and editor 1890-1957)-

“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-

“I don’t believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle…”
-Freddie Mercury, Queen, 1978-

“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.”
-Irish Murdoch, ‘The Red and the Green’-

“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.”
-William Saroyan, ‘The Noiseless Tenor’-

“In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn’t enough of those things.”
-Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium, 2004-

“Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.”
-Lord Charles Beresford-

“When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax.”
-President George W Bush, May 2004-

“I thought of that while riding my bike.”
-Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity-

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road”
-Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle, Scientific American, 1896-