I started reading The Cyclists compendium in a book shop and I noted down some of the quotes
On a bicycle you consume a fiftieth of the oxygen consumed by a motor vehicle, and expel no pollutants
“Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride”
John F Kennedy
“Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.”
Richard Ballanatine
“Cycle Tracks will abound in Utopia.”
HG Wells
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
~H.G. Wells
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
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.
Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle”
“Human progress should have stopped with the bicycle.”
Elizabeth West
“The bicycle, the bicycle should surely always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
Christopher Morley.
“Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity”
Lord Charles Beresford
“A bicycle is a vehicle for revolution”
Daniel Behrman
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
As my late father-in-law, Jack Brownhill (still riding 10 mile TT’s at 90 years old) used to say: ‘Time triallling is like banging your head against the wall – it’s lovely when you stop.’
would you like to buy that book sir:- no thanks Ive just read it!