Post your bike-applicable inspiring quotation
12-11-17, 07:06 PM
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Post your bike-applicable inspiring quotation
In the spirit of the recent trivia thread, how about posting your favorite inspirational quote with an application to cycling? You know, those kinds of (often slightly cheesy) things you see on motivational posters?
Here's mine:
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
--John A. Shedd
That always comes to mind for me when I see a beautiful, immaculate old bike whose owner keeps it polished, spotless, perfectly tuned, and locked up indoors at all times.
Here's mine:
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
--John A. Shedd
That always comes to mind for me when I see a beautiful, immaculate old bike whose owner keeps it polished, spotless, perfectly tuned, and locked up indoors at all times.
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12-11-17, 07:28 PM
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
--Raoul Duke (aka Hunter S. Thompson)
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12-11-17, 08:14 PM
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Susan B. Anthony once said, "I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." A woman on a bicycle, the equal rights champion observed, presents "the picture of free and untrammeled womanhood." ...
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. -- H. G. Wells
“When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world.” — John Lennon.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. -- H. G. Wells
“When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world.” — John Lennon.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
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Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
12-11-17, 08:44 PM
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Paraphrasing Davis Phinney, I didn't choose to have Parkinson's Disease, I can choose not to let it control my life. Cycling has done much the same for me. It has made to possible to have a reasonably normal life, and keep my PD at a controllable level (with sinemet.)
Bill
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I Can Do All Things Through Him, Who Gives Me Strength. Philippians 4:13
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I Can Do All Things Through Him, Who Gives Me Strength. Philippians 4:13
12-11-17, 09:06 PM
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"You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week,
or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime".
Mark Allen
or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime".
Mark Allen
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12-11-17, 09:22 PM
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference - Robert Frost
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Paraphrasing Davis Phinney, I didn't choose to have Parkinson's Disease, I can choose not to let it control my life. Cycling has done much the same for me. It has made to possible to have a reasonably normal life, and keep my PD at a controllable level (with sinemet.)
Bill
I was a cyclist long before I developed Type 1 diabetes. Riding does good things for my blood sugar levels.
A good friend has Parkinson's and is dealing with it.
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Someone's young daughter said, "that hill was so steep, my legs are out of breath!"
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When I was a boy, I prayed and asked God for a bicycle, but then I realized he doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me. -Emo Phillips
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12-12-17, 04:25 AM
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And my favorite, from C&V member @jimmuller
"I come not to bury Caesar's bike but to praise it.
I've seen bikes I'd rather not ride. I give them no tribute."
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...or was it big needles??
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12-12-17, 06:31 AM
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12-12-17, 07:30 AM
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We shall defend our steel, whatever the cost may be, we shall ride on the beaches, we shall ride on the landing grounds, we shall ride in the fields and in the streets, we shall ride in the hills; we shall never surrender. Finston Downhill