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You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, " I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.Susan Vreeland
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On a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.Chris Cleave
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The bicycle saves my life every day. If you've ever experienced a moment of awe or freedom on a bicycle; if you've ever taken flight from sadness to the rhythm of two spinning wheels, or felt the resurgence of hope pedalling to the top of a hill with the dew of effort on your forehead; if you've ever wondered, swooping down bird-like down a long hill, if the world was standing still; if you have ever, just once, sat on a bicycle with a singing heart and felt like an ordinary human touching the gods, then we share something fundamental. We know it's all about the bike.Robert Penn
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All the real blokes I know are obsessed with cars and have started doing cycling at the weekend and being really, really boring about it and banging on about their Fitbits and growing stupid beards and talking about being on Tinder. That's what all the 'real men' are like these days!Jenny Colgan
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To do is to be — AristotleTo be or not to be — ShakespeareTo be is to do — Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do — Frank SinatraAlannah Foley
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It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn’t be fun.Robert Penn
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You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.Rosemary Rawlins
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The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying.Tyler Hamilton
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The bike does this; it is an apotheosis of self-sufficiency, in which a well-loved machine will unhesitatingly and quietly mediate intentional being into momentum. As you ride a bike and start to ride it well, there are moments when it becomes an affirmation of life devoid of separation and distinction; you ride through the earth unthinkingly rather than across it. There is no need to account for who you are in others’ terms, in language, even. Your characteristics give way to your being. The effort put into the bike can take you out of your socialized, represented self into what Heidegger called ‘disclosing self’, where you simply are ever-shifting endeavour.Robin Holt
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Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.Ryan Lilly
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We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in.Neil M. Hanson
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I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.David Millar
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Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.Bernard Hinault