A Feasible Challenge: Upscaling the role of cycling in urban transport
25 quotes about urban cycling
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Urban cycling:
cycling simply as a means
of transport rather than as a sport
the original and most common type of cycling in the world
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The bicycle, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. -Christopher Morley
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The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. -John Howard
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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
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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
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Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? - Flann O'Brien
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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
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When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. The more he used it, the fitter his body became. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. - Elizabeth West
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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. - H.G. Wells
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When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamoring's of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. But I am mentally far away from civilization. - Diane Ackerman
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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
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A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. - Bill Emerson
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The bicycle will accomplish more for women's sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. - Author Unknown
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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
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Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. - James E. Starrs
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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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Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. - Jacquie Phelan
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I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was. - Henry Miller
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. - Mark Twain
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Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that - where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you. - Steve Johnson
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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
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Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
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Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. - P.J. O'Rourke
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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
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Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. - James Bethea
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If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures. Earth's revenge. - Jo Burt
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