Quotes and Photos of Bikes (and Those Who Ride Them)

[C. K.]

Riding a bike can save expenditures in transportation and exercise. We should also appreciate the enjoyment and beauty of the bike and its riders.

This thread will be a repository of (1) quotes about bikes and (2) photos of bike riders.

What are your favorite quotes about bikes?
Any favorite biking images?

[C. K.]

Jean Harlow holding a bike on the set of HOLD YOUR MAN (source)

[C. K.]

"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

[C. K.]

Man in suit on bike. (source)

[C. K.]

“Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.”

Eddy Merckx

[Janie]

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
                                                                                                                                                                   ― Susan B. Anthony

[Undecided]

“Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.”

~ Unknown

It's generally attributed to Eddy Merckx.

[blue mutant]

40 quotes: http://blog.bikehike.com/40-of-the-best-biking-quotes-of-all-time/

My favourite among them:
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” ~ H.G. Wells

[C. K.]

“Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.”

~ Unknown

It's generally attributed to Eddy Merckx.

Updated. Thanks.

[deborah]

The Canberra newspaper - cycling is the new golf!

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/small-business/trends/cycling-is-the-new-golf-20140408-369qh.html

[GuitarStv]

"Give a hoot, ride a bike."
  - Spider-man

[fallstoclimb]

“Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.”

Eddy Merckx

Ha!  I'll have to remember this next time DH pushes for another bike (he has THREE but is a firm follower of the n+1 rule....)

[odput]

On Commuting by Bicycle:

"Ride like everyone is 16, drunk, and out to get you"
      -Random person on the internet

[SisterX]

These two:

[C. K.]

Actress Susan Hayward on a bike, apparently during her modeling days in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

[Glenstache]

Not mustachian, but amusing:
<img src="http://www.adventure-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/adventure-journal-charting-adventure-how-to-tell-if-you-need-a-new-bike.jpg">

[C. K.]

Not mustachian, but amusing:
<img src="http://www.adventure-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/adventure-journal-charting-adventure-how-to-tell-if-you-need-a-new-bike.jpg">

Funny. :)

[C. K.]

Lady in heels on bike (source)

[C. K.]

Man in Morocco with bike.(source)

[C. K.]

Man chilling on rented bike in Paris. (source)

[tofuchampion]

"My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle.  I ride road bikes.  And for me, it's mobile meditation." 
- Robin Williams

He also said, when asked why he loved cycling, that it's "the closest you can get to flying"

Also from Williams:  "The dope tests came back, they found traces of Viagra.  It helps me ride long and hard, and I don't need a kickstand."

[C. K.]

Movie star Doris Day would often ride her bike to work at the studio. (Source)
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[Happy in CA]

"How to make a million dollars in the bike business?  Start with two million."  - unknown