IT’S MORE THAN JUST A RIDE…

December 28, 2009

.… CYCLING INSPIRES AND ENOBLES

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




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Being Ernest ( importance of )

Hemingway Quote


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July 26, 2009

” I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle” - Zen Proverb

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THIS WEEK’S QUOTE

July 20, 2009

Words of wisdom from Dallas, Texas

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

BushAnd he’s wearing spandex too.


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May 7, 2009

“Elvis would have needed to cycle 160.74 miles at 17 mph to burn off his 6500 calorie per day intake.” – “Number Freaking,” by Gary Rimmer

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