Bicycles Quotations

Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse.

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.

When we got to Washington that day and discovered people coming in trucks and buses and on planes, in cars, even some came on bicycles and skates -- we were overwhelmed by that response,

We have items donated from all over the area. We have a wide range of things including knives, tires, gift certificates, bicycles and tons of toys.

Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people

Many people who live not real close to Concord Park take their bicycles over there and watch the fireworks on July Fourth.

Most of the time we have to watch for children. Children are going to be crossing the roads. Children are also going to be crossing with bicycles and that's also a concern in the summertime and when the weather's nice.

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

Fortunately there were no pedestrians or children or bicycles on top of the transformer at the time of the failure,

The owner decided to offer more upscale bicycles of $500 or more. He changed his product line and did very well. That's how he reacted and he did well.

It encompasses the area from the rock cut to the Cherry Creek Road intersection. The project will involve the expansion of the existing bike path and will allow bicycles on both sides of the street.

We're very proud of the amount of bikes we make just in Waterloo and with the built-in trail system across from the factory where we test the bikes. I mean the actual bicycles that Lance rides are made right here in Waterloo.

We all saw the evacuation of Houston during the hurricane. In the exodus from Paris, five million people hit the road in fear of the impending battle. After the French surrendered without a defense of Paris, many moved back. For me, the drama was that evacuation. I could not get the image of two people on bicycles in that flood of refugees out of my head.

throwing down their bicycles and bidding against us.

Used to, it was mostly college kids buying bicycles to get around campus. But now it's people who have been exposed to cycling through watching and reading about Lance who are taking up cycling. Some are into racing, but most do it for fitness and the social aspects.

You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

The availability of low-cost imports also affects retail prices, which have declined by more than 35 percent since 1997, with much of that decline coming in the last six months. As a result, we are no longer able to make an adequate profit manufacturing bicycles in North America.

That section of road is within the city limits, but the roadway we are talking about is (Florida) Department of Transportation property. The DOT has already posted signs that prohibit bicycles and pedestrians from being on the span of bridge that's the Fourth Street exit off of I-275. And after taking a look at the area, I can see that people fishing there could be a real hazard, so they (DOT officials) probably need to post no fishing signs there so that it's a very clear message.

In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.

For our customer, this is their hobby. They have bicycles instead of Porsches or golf clubs.

All the things I hated about my first experience, the heat and humidity and the crowds, would become all the things I would embrace about the country, and love those differences and love being stuck in those traffic jams with thousands of bicycles and people driving by with 30 ducks on their motorbikes and the dirt roads and all that stuff,