Top 100 Quotes About The Bike
#1. The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn't know the road like the back of their hand.
Jane Green
#2. Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike ... it gives you a chance to read 'em.
Brad Pitt
#3. Bikers don't wear all that leather around simply for the fashion value or possible felony assaults. It's handy for keeping the highway from ripping the skin from your flesh should you wind up losing control of the bike and sliding along the asphalt for a while.
Jim Butcher
#4. He looks so stupid that it cancels out my
stupid so I give in and ride and he runs
and gets on the bike after only two tries.
Cath Crowley
#5. Alex grabbed our things from the bike and bought them inside; then he fastened the tent closed, securing us in.
Come here, babe, I'll keep you warm.
L.A. Weatherly
#6. I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
Valentino Rossi
#7. In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it
Paul Fournel
#8. You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.
Cynthia Lewis
#9. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong
#10. Hagrid!" Harry called, holding on to the bike for dear life. "Hagrid - Accio Hagrid!
J.K. Rowling
#11. I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
Larry Bishop
#12. In the Netherlands, fewer than one in thirty riders wear helmets, the streets are full of cyclists, and the bike accident and head injury rate is far lower than it is in the United States.
Grant Petersen
#13. Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.
Maureen Johnson
#14. I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.
Stephen Roche
#16. If you happen to be out at night on the bike path without a light, ring your bell constantly. No bell? Then sing "Hotel Yorba" on a continuous loop, loud enough to warn the unseen.
Grant Petersen
#17. I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.
Pat Bowlen
#18. In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.
Lance Armstrong
#19. Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles - nothing on the back but a shirt, nothing tied to the bike but a slicker, in case of rain. Their
Edward Abbey
#20. I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.
Bernard Hinault
#21. Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion
Nicki Minaj
#23. Parked the bike in a side road - and fainted. The second accident occurred at night in heavy
Oliver Sacks
#24. Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.
Philip Gourevitch
#25. When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.
Ned Overend
#26. I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."
Matt Skiba
#27. A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.
Robert Duncan McNeill
#28. The sight of him swinging his leg over the back of the bike and taking his helmet off was akin to the hotness I would experience had someone struck a match and physically set my vagina alight.
K.M. Golland
#29. I go to the gym four times a week for 45 minutes to an hour without fail; I like using weights for muscle tone and the bike and rower for my heart rate. I do quite a lot of floor exercises.
Marie Helvin
#30. That night I first saw you, I was going too fast. There I was rubbernecking at you and dumped the bike. Wrecked me up. I don't want to wreck us up like that. I don't want you to get hurt." She
Bryn Greenwood
#31. I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories,
Philippe Starck
#32. We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here"
"How do you know the bike model?" I asked.
"I'm a boy. We like engines
Alexandra Adornetto
#33. In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.
Valentino Rossi
#34. Nick scowled out the window. "I have friends in Exeter already. I have-those people, you know, they hang around outside the bike sheds, they're always hassling Jamie."
"Those are some awesome dudes," Jamie muttered. "Don't let them get away.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#35. Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
Jeremy Corbyn
#36. Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average,
Jens Voigt
#37. Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it's like Hey, we're both doing the same thing. Let's be friends for a second.
Neil Pasricha
#38. My mum told me the best time to ask my dad for anything was during sex. Not the best advice I'd ever been given. I burst in through the bedroom door saying "Can I have a new bike?". He was very upset. His secretary was surprisingly nice about it. I got the bike.
Jimmy Carr
#39. I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components
Valentino Rossi
#40. But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
Liam Neeson
#41. [Mike] just loves [his] motorcycle and he would take it out too early [in Green Bay]. In Green Bay, you've got ice until June, and he'd take it out sooner than that. He can finish the rest of the story. Ask him about taking the bike out a little too early.
Steve Mariucci
#42. You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.
Lance Armstrong
#43. The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike-sharing, and as we work toward creating a fitter city, the bike-share program encourages a more active and healthy lifestyle.
Julian Castro
#44. I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine.
Cilla Black
#45. Travis grabbed my wrists and wrapped them around his middle. "There's nothing to hold on to but me, Pidge. Don't let go," he said pushing the bike backward with his feet.
Jamie McGuire
#46. There was a roar from the shadow-tiger mask around the Harley, and Murphy swept up alongside the boat. I leapt down onto the back of the bike in a single smooth motion, which I felt was cool, and landed with too much of my weight on my genitals, which I felt was not.
Jim Butcher
#47. My leg over the bike. Ranger was watching me, smiling. "I like the way you straddle that," he said. "Someday . . .
Janet Evanovich
#48. For me the best part about the racing is to let all your aggression - whatever you've got inside you - out on the bike and just attack everything at all possible times.
Magnus Backstedt
#49. The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.
Paul F. Tompkins
#50. People with more money than time buy $3,000 road racing bicycles with ultralight carbon frames to shave two pounds off the bike, regardless of the fact that they themselves are probably at least 10 pounds overweight.
Jacob Lund Fisker
#51. The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29 bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
Matt Skiba
#52. The more you ride the bike, the better it gets, and the more you know how to ride it.
John DiMaggio
#53. The bike went up in the air and landed on my back. It broke my neck, smashed my collarbone and splinters of bone severed my main artery. My lung filled up with blood. I severed my nerves and to this day I have no feeling there.
Ozzy Osbourne
#54. This was the part of the road he knew best, the part his old blue Schwinn had known so well that at one time, the bike might have found its way back home without anyone riding it.
Sere Prince Halverson
#55. All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying, "Maybe not a bike!"
Sheryl Crow
#56. It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
Sarah Dessen
#57. They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are."
"Well, good," I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.
Heather James
#58. Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.
David Millar
#59. Even if you never, ever ride the bike it will still age. So you might as well ride it while it's pretty and enjoy the process of making it ugly.
BikeSnobNYC
#60. The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
Tom Shadyac
#61. Maneuvered the bike off the road near a ditch and cut the engine.
Faith Hunter
#62. I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower."
He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#63. I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.
Paul F. Tompkins
#64. Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.
Lance Armstrong
#65. Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize performance, and frames, wheels, water bottles are all tested. Even clothing, like my Castelli Stealth Top, is faster than skin.
Timothy O'Donnell
#66. If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.
Shaquille O'Neal
#67. Helped Grandma off and removed her helmet. She stepped away from the bike and straightened her clothes. "I can see why people like these Harleys," she said. "They really wake you up down there, don't they?
Janet Evanovich
#68. I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.
Ben Sollee
#69. The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike ... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.
Valentino Rossi
#70. People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
#71. To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
Valentino Rossi
#72. I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run.
Timothy O'Donnell
#73. Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike."
"What?"
"He'll understand.
Sarah Dessen
#74. For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe ... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.
Clara Hughes
#75. Everyday on the bike is a different day. Just when you think your on top, you find yourself towards the back of the pack. It is probably the hardest sport I ever done it continues to be challenging and different.
Robin Farina
#76. And on the point-zero-five percent chance that I do lose, it'll get her on my bike, spreading her legs to straddle the leather and steel. No matter how much I've stuck to my self-imposed rule of "no chicks on the bike," that alone might be worth the small risk.
Angeline Kace
#77. Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
Jacquie Phelan
#78. I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.
Kathryn Smith
#79. The bike struggled showing signs it was feeling the strain especially in the bodywork which we constantly had to fix with Alberto's favored spare part - wire.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#80. On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica know the title of book 4? And I keep saying, No! There is no point kidnapping her, taking her around back of the bike shed, and torturing her for information.
J.K. Rowling
#81. I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
Valentino Rossi
#82. While driving and talking on a cell phone, how much of your world do you miss? The research findings suggest you could have your eyes wide open, but fail to see the car, the bike, or the deer about to cross your path.
David McRaney
#83. I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.
Lance Armstrong
#84. Get back on the bike and tell me where to go."
"I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.
Karen Marie Moning
#85. I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It's my release.
Cheri Bustos
#86. It creates an effective contrast, like riding a bike down a long and peaceful country road and every other hundred yards the bike turns into a bear.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#87. Are you sure this is safe?" she asked as he handed her the helmet.
"What? Me or the bike?"
She laughed. "Both."
"The Triumph is a pussycat, but I can't vouch for me.
Natasha Bond
#88. Shane smirked and straddled the bike
showing his back to me, end of discussion.
I was speechless anyway. I couldn't even
think right. Well ... mentally he was about eight
inches deep in me and I was screaming his name
raking my nails down his back.
Christine Zolendz
#89. The bike would be finished this
summer and Papi would be fine, and Janice and all the
other concerned medical professionals could take their
long-term care facility and shove it, while the rest of us
ate empanadas and laughed about that one summer Papi
almost lost his mind.
Sarah Ockler
#90. I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.
Matt Skiba
#91. The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.
Sarah Dessen
#92. You've never ridden a motorcycle before?"
"Nope."
"What kind of bad-boy girlfriend are you?" I ask in mock dismay.
"Evidently a terrible one."
I swing onto the bike and grab my only helmet. "Nah, you just haven't met the right bad-boy.
M. Leighton
#93. It's been a while since I've had sex. I figured it was just like riding a bike, the only difference is that after a while, the bike doesn't turn you over and ride you.
Beatrice Stark Girl Detective
#94. Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
Valentino Rossi
#95. I was going to be the best paper boy ever. I used my Sting-Ray bike and got the papers there after school. People know I porched everything. No roofs, no lawns. I stopped the bike and nailed it. And if I ever missed, I would go pick it up and do it right.
Gary Carter
#96. My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
Lance Armstrong
#97. I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
Chris Bohjalian
#98. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
Sheryl Crow
#99. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
Benjamin Booker
#100. The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.
Rod Stewart
