“I actually own a bicycle, have done for years. I can't ride it safely anywhere around here... and I worked out that not being able to tell where sound is coming from just makes it even more unlikely I could bear taking it on the roads in this crazy place (again). It's highly annoying. If I want to go on a safe bike ride, I'd need to take trains/ ( Read more... )

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”

- Emo Philips

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”

- Albert Einstein

"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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"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, The Red and the Green [1965].

"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. It has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood"

-- H.G. Wells , New York World, February 2, 1896