Bike Culture

Posted by John McCabe

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BIKE CULTURE

Support bike culture. Get a bike. Don’t drive when you can ride a bike or walk instead.

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”

– H. G. Wells

“A human body and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.”

– Richard Ballantine

“It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep.

– Gurdon S. Leete

“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.”

– Iris Murdoch

“The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.”

– Ann Strong

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate woman than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”

– Susan B. Anthony

“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. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

– Ernest Hemmingway

“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.”

– J.B. Jackson

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”

– John F. Kennedy

Bicycle Civil Liberties Union, http://www.BCLU.org

Bicycle Paper, http://www.BicyclePaper.com. Seattle, Washington

Bicycle Safe, http://www.BicycleSafe.com

Bicycle Transportation Alliance, http://www.BTA4Bikes.org

Bicycling Info, http://www.BicyclingInfo.org/pp/exemplary.htm

Bicycology, http://www.Bicycology.org.uk

Bike Boom: http://www.BikeBoom.com

Bike 4 Peace, http://www.Bike4Peace.org

BikeRoWave, http://www.BikeRoWave.org