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I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.
Sep 25, 2025
It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
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, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
It never gets easier; you just go faster.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.
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. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.
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.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.
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