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It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels QUOTES

It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels QUOTES

1 " It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn’t be fun. "

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2 " A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. "

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3 " And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability. "

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4 " Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live. "

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5 " During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron. "

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6 " Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world . . . It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance . . . the moment she takes her seat, she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood. "

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7 " I remembered an Ernest Hemingway quote: ‘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 . . . you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through. "

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