The document contains various quotes about urban cycling and bicycles. It discusses bicycles as a means of transportation, their efficiency, and their positive impact on health and the environment. Several quotes praise bicycles as a simple, balanced form of transport and note their role in women's fashion and liberation.

1. Quotes about
urban cycling

2. Urban cycling:
the original and most
common type of cycling
in the world
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3. The bicycle, should always
be the vehicle of novelists
and poets.
-Christopher Morley
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4. The bicycle is
a curious
vehicle.
Its passenger
is its engine.
-John Howard
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5. It would not be at all strange if
history came to the conclusion
that the perfection of the bicycle
was the greatest incident of the
nineteenth century.
- Author Unknown
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6. Tens of thousands who could
never afford to own, feed and
stable a horse, had by this
bright invention enjoyed the
swiftness of motion which is
perhaps the most fascinating
feature of material life.
- Frances Willard
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7. Why should anyone
steal a watch when he
could steal a bicycle?
- Flann O'Brien
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8. 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
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9. 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.
The more he used it, the fitter his
body became. Progress should have
stopped when man invented the
bicycle.
- Elizabeth West
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jphilipson/5119222415

10. When I see an
adult on a
bicycle, I do
not despair for
the future of
the human
race.
- H.G. Wells
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11. When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of
the day's sensations: bright sun, blue
sky, warm breeze and so on. This helps
me transcend the traffic, ignore the
clamoring's of work, leave all the mind
theaters behind and focus on nature
instead. But I am mentally far away
from civilization.
- Diane Ackerman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/askeholst/3625783129

12. For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient
machine ever created: Converting calories into
gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand
miles per gallon.
- Bill Strickland
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keoni101/8393819108

13. A bicycle does get you there
and more....
And there is always the thin
edge of danger to keep you
alert and comfortably
apprehensive. Potholes
become personal. And
getting there is all the fun.
- Bill Emerson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/riekhavoc/6033967360

14. The bicycle will accomplish more for
women's sensible dress than all the
reform movements that have ever
been waged.
- Author Unknown
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15. 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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23607515@N03/6116362713

16. Melancholy is
incompatible with
bicycling.
- James E. Starrs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diueine/4805408241

17. The bicycle had, and still has,
a humane, almost classical moderation
in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the
kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek
might have invented and ridden. It does
no violence to our normal reactions: It
does not pretend to free us from our
normal environment.
- J.B. Jackson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro_buk/452822867

18. Until mountain biking came
along, the bike scene was
ruled by a small elite cadre of
people who seemed allergic to
enthusiasm.
- Jacquie Phelan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/visitcolorado/488331156

19. 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 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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/huggerindustries/3620952786

20. Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if
you live.
- Mark Twain
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21. Cycling is unique. No other sport lets
you go like that - where there's only the
bike left to hold you up. If you ran as
hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't
support you.
- Steve Johnson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenik/3988718734

22. The hardest part of raising
a child is teaching them to
ride bicycles. A shaky child
on a bicycle for the first
time needs both support
and freedom. The
realization that this is what
the child will always need
can hit hard.
- Sloan Wilson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34547181@N00/7191186030

23. Life is like riding
a bicycle - in
order to keep
your
balance, you
must keep
moving.
- Albert Einstein
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raul-caceres/8526963154

24. Mankind has invested more than four million years
of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical
exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking
atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-
Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our
teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were
being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by
saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the
dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of
will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation
of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would
have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.
- P.J. O'Rourke
http://www.flickr.com/photos/onkel_wart/2363871709

25. After your first day of cycling, one dream is
inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in
the muscles of your legs, and round and
round they seem to go. You ride through
Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles
that change and grow.
- H.G. Wells
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alessandropisani/6263196908

26. Messengers
and mountain
bikers share a
common
chromosome.
- James Bethea
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amphalon/2271286466

27. If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists,
multinational companies, Jo Public,
respected the land like old civilizations
we wouldn't get so many punctures.
Earth's revenge.
- Jo Burt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/helter-skelter/8344033480

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30. Thanks!
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