TO CYCLE IS TO INSPIRE AND ENOBLE

• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle – Helen Keller

• It is easy to be a holy man on a bike – Mark W. Matson

• Wheel, kindly light, along life’s cycle path. Wheel thou on me! The road is rough, I have discerned Thy Wrath, but wheel me on – Christian Hymn

• Cars are all right on occasion, but they are not moments of grace, as bicycles are – Colman McCarthy / Washington Post Journalist

• If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles – Carl Sagan

• Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia – H.G. Wells

• I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle – Zen Proverb

• An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind -  Mahatma K. Gandhi

*  Best wishes to CABA members and friends for the holidays and the  year ahead  *

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cartoon by Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer. Click on cartoon to read text

 Check out this excerpt from a memo sent by the TriMet transportation agency to its regional partners in ( you guessed it) Portland Oregon, and we quote:

” Avoid calling walking bicycling, and transit “alternative modes”. They are used by almost everyone to promote health, save money, avoid congestion, and reduce oil dependence. INSTEAD SIMPLY SAY “walking, bicycling and transit.”

Sounds obvious doesn’t it ? Well, in auto addicted cities of the Southeast, that is not always the case. (Thanks to John Cock of Alta Design for sending this along).

- Gloria Steinem

photo source: Legos

- Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle“

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In the spirit of the holiday season > >

• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle – Helen Keller

• It is easy to be a holy man on a bike – Mark W. Matson

• Wheel, kindly light, along life’s cycle path. Wheel thou on me! The road is rough, I have discerned Thy Wrath, but wheel me on – Christian Hymn

• Cars are all right on occasion, but they are not moments of grace, as bicycles are – Colman McCarthy / Washington Post Journalist

• If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles – Carl Sagan

• Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia – H.G. Wells

• I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle – Zen Proverb

• An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind -  Mahatmas K. Gandhi

Thank you all for supporting the cause of bicycling in the Charlotte Metro community

“ My fella Umuricunz – I like bikin’. It’s good fer me and good fer Umurica.” – anonymous retired government employee

And he’s wearing spandex too.