“The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget” --Mario Cipollini
You know it's been a while between posts when your own mother starts chipping you about not updating your blog...
"A three hour bike ride means three hours of mental refreshment; it would take extreme concentration to achieve that by meditation or some like method." --Dave Moulton
"It's just as fun as when you were a kid. You go zoom! and whoosh! You're a sky creature, not a miserable earth-crawler. And you get to the end of your commute feeling invigorated and intensely alive." --Dale Favier
"I'm going to start acting my age some day soon, instead of piss-farting around on bikes. Nah, f_ck it." --Surly Dave
"There are so few things I'd rather do than ride a bike."
Can anyone explain to me why a new motorway construction project seems terminally incapable of completing a mere bike and pedestrian overpass, while a separate motorway "upgrade" project can remove and replace a comparable bridge seemingly without a hitch?
"Slowing down to the urban biking pace reveals a city that many urban dwellers hadn't taken notice of, yet" --anonymous quote on London Cyclist.
"It is not quite true, but none the less often repeated, that the bicycle is the only technology with no downside...But they are near-perfect working machines." --Stephen Bayley, guardian.co.uk
It's a sorry state of affairs when kids are hassled for playing in a quiet residential street.