Bicycle Touring Quotes

When the flowers start blooming, I like to ride my bike.

When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

Cycling is a great way to learn about your city. I love being outdoors, especially in good weather, but I'm not a fair weather cyclist. I'm happy to get a red nose in the cold.

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.

Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don't feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: 'What an easy way to earn a living.'

I ride a bicycle daily in London and have done for many years.

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

Yorkshire is a hard place to ride a bike.

I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

I'm an avid bicyclist, so I catch some sun while I'm out bicycling.

I started learning to ride a bike when I was 18.

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

Lots of other drivers like cycling, but I'm not so keen. I have some really cool bikes, but I'm just not in love with it like Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.

I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old.

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.