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A few of our favorite quotes from The Quotable Cyclist
Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride. --John F. Kennedy
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. --Christoper Morley
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. --H. G. Wells
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. --Mark Twain
It is easy to be a holy man on a mountain bike. --Mark W. Matson
If you brake, you don't win. --Mario Cipollini
There is no room in the Tour for the sick or the weak. --Laurent Jalabert
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. --James E. Starrs
As long as I breathe, I attack. --Bernard Hinault
Ride like water. --Paul Adkins
Cyclists worship legs. --Nelson Pena
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? --Flann O'Brien
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. --John Howard
Bicycles have no walls. --Paul Cornish
The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom. --P. J. O'Rourke
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. --William Saroyan
Everything is bicycle. --Stephen Crane
Contents
Prologue
Love
Mountain Biking
Road Riding
Climbing
Descending
Speed, Sprinting and the Noiseless Rush
Training
Fitness
Racing
Winning and Losing
Crashes
The First Ride
Riding with Style
Desire
The Tour de France and Other Great Races
Legends, Myths and Champions
Paid to Pedal
Adventure
Equipment
Everything is Bicycle
A Vehicle for Revolution
Women in Cycling
Hate
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9781558215634

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Bill Strickland is Executive Editor of Bicycling Magazine, and the editor of The Quotable Cyclist (Breakaway Books).

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