Do you have a favourite quote or signature line?
06-18-12, 06:53 PM
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Do you have a favourite quote or signature line?
I've been using this signature line on my e-mails lately..
My car is my "alternative form of transportation."
Do you have a good quote about car-lite/car-free living?
My car is my "alternative form of transportation."
Do you have a good quote about car-lite/car-free living?
06-18-12, 08:13 PM
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I have created a file with funny quotations. Every time I see one that makes me laugh or think about something in a new way it gets put into that file. Most of them come from the signature files of forum members. I don't have a phrase for my forum posts. I just direct people to my social media and health improvement sites.
Here are two that I really like:
Riding a motorcycle is like living in a video game where people are trying to kill you.
by Sean G on the Be Savage Yahoo Group.
Savage is the name of a 650 cc Suzuki motorcycle.
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TERROR ALERT upgrade from France:
In light of the Madrid bombings, France has upgraded its terror alert level from "run" to "hide."
According to the French government, the only two higher levels are "surrender" and "collaborate."
Unknown author.
Here are two that I really like:
Riding a motorcycle is like living in a video game where people are trying to kill you.
by Sean G on the Be Savage Yahoo Group.
Savage is the name of a 650 cc Suzuki motorcycle.
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TERROR ALERT upgrade from France:
In light of the Madrid bombings, France has upgraded its terror alert level from "run" to "hide."
According to the French government, the only two higher levels are "surrender" and "collaborate."
Unknown author.
06-19-12, 04:07 PM
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You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. ~Robert Pirsig
This was about motorcycling but definitely holds true to riding. It's crazy the number of stories you build up on the bike that could never happen in a car.
This was about motorcycling but definitely holds true to riding. It's crazy the number of stories you build up on the bike that could never happen in a car.
06-19-12, 04:23 PM
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“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” Ernest Hemingway.
and while, my signature...
and while, my signature...
06-20-12, 03:16 PM
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"On the other hand riding down a hill at 55 MPH wearing (essentially) women's underwear and a Styrofoam cup on your head is the epitome of rational life-extending decisions." - RacerEx
Saw it in someones singnature today...
Saw it in someones singnature today...
06-20-12, 03:36 PM
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Not limited to carfree or carlite, but the truest statement I have ever heard:
“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.” - Albert Einstein
“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.” - Albert Einstein
06-20-12, 09:19 PM
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06-26-12, 02:34 PM
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I read this advice on a blog the other day:
“when riding in the drops you should be punching a bear, not holding a wheelbarrow.”
Such wonderful imagery.
and this was from an article, regarding riding a bicycle in traffic:
“Your brain’s glad to finally have a real job to do, instead of all that trivial busywork. You are all action, no deliberation. You are forced, under pain of death, to quit all that silly ideation and pay attention. It’s meditation at gunpoint.”
“when riding in the drops you should be punching a bear, not holding a wheelbarrow.”
Such wonderful imagery.
and this was from an article, regarding riding a bicycle in traffic:
“Your brain’s glad to finally have a real job to do, instead of all that trivial busywork. You are all action, no deliberation. You are forced, under pain of death, to quit all that silly ideation and pay attention. It’s meditation at gunpoint.”
06-27-12, 07:27 AM
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Signature Line....
I have plenty more that are non cycling related. I too have a file full of pictures and quotes for a wide variety of occasions.
Aaron
I have plenty more that are non cycling related. I too have a file full of pictures and quotes for a wide variety of occasions.
Aaron
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"Cycling should be a way of life, not a hobby.
RIDE, YOU FOOL, RIDE!"_Nicodemus
"Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred
Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"_krazygluon
Webshots is bailing out, if you find any of my posts with corrupt picture files and want to see them corrected please let me know. :(
ISO: A late 1980's Giant Iguana MTB frameset (or complete bike) 23" Red with yellow graphics.
"Cycling should be a way of life, not a hobby.
RIDE, YOU FOOL, RIDE!"_Nicodemus
"Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred
Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"_krazygluon
06-27-12, 11:46 AM
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You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. ~Robert Pirsig
This was about motorcycling but definitely holds true to riding. It's crazy the number of stories you build up on the bike that could never happen in a car.
This was about motorcycling but definitely holds true to riding. It's crazy the number of stories you build up on the bike that could never happen in a car.
“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
06-27-12, 11:50 AM
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Mr. Abbey has a lot of good ones
“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
― Edward Abbey
“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
― Edward Abbey
06-27-12, 05:43 PM
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06-29-12, 05:43 PM
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Mr. Abbey has a lot of good ones
“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
― Edward Abbey
“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
― Edward Abbey
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06-29-12, 05:45 PM
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I read this on a blog last night, but the wisdom is profound:
"If you are going to use the same piece of tissue to wipe your ass and blow your nose, it is recommended that you blow your nose first."
"If you are going to use the same piece of tissue to wipe your ass and blow your nose, it is recommended that you blow your nose first."
07-04-12, 07:30 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
From my mountain biking days the motto was always, "Go hard or go home."
07-04-12, 07:32 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
"Work... the eight hours between bicycle rides."
07-05-12, 04:39 AM
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07-05-12, 08:03 AM
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From a mis-spelling on an e-mail I received once... was my sig for a very long time.
"Environmental stickers don't mean $hit when they are stuck to cats"
"Environmental stickers don't mean $hit when they are stuck to cats"