Riding a bike is not just good for the body, but also for the soul: riding towards new horizons while feeling te wind in your hair is truly regenerating and unique. If you love cycling, keep reading to discover the best inspirational quotes about it.
Travelling by bicycle offers unique emotions, that have inspired many cyclists and journalists, as well as writers and thinkers, to dedicate beautiful phrases and quotes to cycling. Here are the best ones:
The most beautiful cycling quotes
I love bike riding. I see things that otherwise I may never have seen. The roads have to direction, even when there is only one road.
(Stephen Littleword)
The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions you will never forget.
(Mario Cipollini)
No other invention combines business with pleasure as deeply as a bicycle.
(Adam Opel)
Riding a bicycle is an act of creative expression, an art form that changes every time a person goes for a ride.
(Charles Youel)
Bicycling: a spiritual practice
Cycling is good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you’ve arrived.
(Eddy Merckx)
If pedestrians ignore each other, if motorists insult each other, cyclists smile at each other, greet each other and unite.
(Jacques Goddet)
When spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a good spin down the road, without anything but thought for the ride you are taking.
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
(Albert Einstein)
Bicycle wheels are like the hands of a clock: they turn slowly, but they can go really fast, rolling towards the future unhurried.
(Enrico Caracciolo)
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
(Sloan Wilson)
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
(Iris Murdoch)
Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it, but the world at large.
(Udo Simonis)
For true cyclists: an unbreakable bond with your own bike
Cyclism is the top poetic expression of our human body. A bicycle is worth a library.
(Alfredo Oriani)
I called the bike my only friend. If it had been possible, I probably would have slept with him.
(Henry Miller)
I feel like an artist and my bicycle is the brush.
(Scott Stoll)
Cycling is about movement and freedom; on a bike you feel untethered, almost autonomous.
(Ralf Hütter)
Cycling gives me great pleasure: it’s wonderful, to sit down somewhere a little tired and heated and look over the bushes, the meadows and hills, and in the evening it’s even beautiful to ride in the streets of the suburbs.
(Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
The pleasure of travelling by bike
Bicycing…is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
(Louis J.Helle, Jr.)
Cycling satisfies so many needs. If you’re in a gregarious mood, you can go out with a group. Or you can go alone-solo. If you’re in an aggressive mood, you can go fast, or if you’re tired and want to unwind you can go slow. A bicycle doesn’t discriminate in age, either.
(Georgena Terry)
Riding a bicycle is a way to harmonize life with time and space: it is to go and to stay in measures still human.
(Sergio Zavoli)
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)
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
(John F. Kennedy)
What is your favourite cycling quotation?
If you want to ride your bike after reading these quotations, take your bicycle and explore wonderful cycle paths all over the world!
Author: Amanda Passerini
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