BIKE SENTENCES 

 

 

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine" 

John Howard 

 

""Bicycling is the perfect marriage of man and machine. You are the motor, so you get all the credit when things go right." "And when things don't go so well?" "Then you blame the bike." "That doesn't sound like my perfect marriage."" 

Jef Mallett 

 

"Bicycle riding as little as three miles a day will improve your sex life." 

Dr. Franco Antonimi 

 

"Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers- those people ride a bike." 

Wolfgang Sachs  

 

Cycling satisfies so many needs. If you're in a gregarious mood, you can go out with a group. OR you can go alone- solo. If you're in an aggressive mood, you can go fast, or if you're tired and want to unwind you can go slow. A bicycle doesn't discriminate in age, either." 

Georgena Terry 

 

"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 a negro named 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 - From "My Bike and Other Friends" 

 

"Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people." 

Chip Brown - From "A Bike and a Prayer" 

 

"Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines." 

Stuart S. Wilson 

 

"In the real world, what people mainly do with their Sport Utility Vehicles, as far as I can tell, is try to maneuver then into and out of parking spaces. I've noticed that these people often purchase just a couple items - maybe a bottle of diet water and a two-ounce package of low-fat dried carrot shreds - which they put into the back of their Subdivisions, which have approximately the same cargo capacity, in cubic feet, as Finland" 

Dave Barry 

 

"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 

 

"The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it, start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better." 

Richard Ballatine 

 

"Nobody ever died from not knowing how to play flag football. Yet we spend tax money teaching kids its nuances in gym classes, while bicycle safety is still foreign to most school curriculums. That isn't right." 

Don Cuerdon 

 

 

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets." 

Christoper Morley 

 

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." 

H.G Wells 

 

"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women 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." 

Susan B. Anthony 

 

"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 

 

Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government." 

Advocacy slogan in Holland