Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.

Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.

An increase in bicycle ridership brings an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists.

I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

No Riders Killed in First 5 Months of New York City Bike-Share Program

When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd.

The growth of cycling is a good thing. But good cycling is responsible cycling.

The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

The supreme rule of the road is the rule of mutual forbearance.

What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day

Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence, and I drive quickly sometimes.

My bike is my main form of transportation, so I've got a red clip-on taillight.

Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.

I am tired and weary because people are continually forcing me off the road. I was actually honked off once.

Oh my god, I never want to hurt a bike. That's the last thing I want to do, precious little bikes.

When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.

It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it.

I drive like my body and my limitations leave me to do it. After my accident, I discovered that to do a roundabout in the road car, you don't have to grab the steering wheel, you can use friction to turn.

I feel very fragile cycling in London, whereas in Berlin there are proper cycle paths everywhere.

As a driver, I will always be the same guy.