"To possess a bicycle is to be able first to look at it, then to touch
it. But touching is revealing as insufficient; what is necessary is to
be able to get on the bicycle & take a ride. But this gratuitous ride
is likewise insufficient; it would be necessary to use the bicycle to
go on some errands. And this refers us to longer uses....But these
trips themselves disintegrate into a thousand appropriative behavior
patterns, each one of which refers to others. Finally, as one could
forsee, handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to
me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession."
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine." —John Howard

"If you brake, you don't win." —Mario Cipollini

"The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind." —William Saroyan

"Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bike ride." —John F. Kennedy

"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." —James E. Starrs

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." —H.G. Wells

"After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of
motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they
seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that
change and grow." —H.G. Wells, From his Cycling Novel - The Wheels of
Chance

" To ride a bicycle properly is like a love affair; chiefly it is a
matter of faith. Believe you can do it & the thing is done; doubt, &
for the life of you, you cannot." —H.G. Wells, From his Cycling Novel,
The Wheels of Chance