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“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hopes seem hardly worth having, just mount a bicycle and go for a good spin down the road, without thought of anything but the ride you are taking.”
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them.... Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motorcar 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.”
“The findings, which the Alliance presented to the UCI earlier, also outlines some demands that pro women have—primarily, access to health insurance. Second to that was post-career job placement or education. (Forty-eight percent of women pros have at least a four-year university degree, 19 percent have at least a master's degree, and 35 percent are currently enrolled as students.)”
“Going around the world on a bicycle is no longer enough -- the daredevil has got to go around the moon on a Pogo stick with one arm tied behind him if he wants to get his picture in the paper.”
“The bicycle is a city thing, virtually useless anywhere excepting on a pavement or hard surface of some kind. Without the road it would never have been invented. It is a little mad, both in design and purpose. Two wheels held together in a frame, with a simple mechanical system enabling a forward movement for one person.”
“With an efficiency of 97 percent, bicycle technology is nearly perfect, so why do we use it only for transportation?”
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