Great Cycling Quotes

Which you received and then had a whinge about, before (finally) qualifying what you actually wanted. Help request fail.

Finally? What after 2 posts and 5 minutes?

I didn't whinge, I just hate it that the minute you ask a question here, it's like a race to see who can say UTFS or use Let me get that for you, or just make a stupid sarcastic comment.

Ta for the help you (finally) provided.

3 minutes after you posted "Anyone know a good resource for cycling quotes, more specifically one's that relate to road cycling?" you received a response that totally answered your request.

11 minutes later you spring the same old "I already googled it.. for hours and hours and hours and you all suck for stating the obvious that I'm dense cry cry whinge etc".

How about you use this thread as a lesson that "you get out what you put in". Ask a vague or obvious question and what sort of answers were you seriously expecting?

Your question was answered. Don't cry about it if you can't ask a more useful question.

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to succeed by the strength of our own muscles rather than by the artifice of gears? As for me, give me a fixed.”

I personally use books as a source of quotes - really don't think Hippy was being unreasonable though...[/LEFT]
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The only cycling quotes you need.

Actually, wasn't there a list of Duffer quotes out there?

http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-commentators-and-quotes/

"De las Cuevas is so far down on GC you could time him in with a calendar!"

"Escartin has a pursuiter’s hooter. A big nose spread all over his face to suck in lots of oxygen."

ha!

yeah whatever hippy - you're right, everyone else in the world is stupid/dense/wrong. Standard.

Perhaps I was too vague initially, apologies for that, but there's no need to be such an arse about this stuff - doesn't it get a bit boring after a while?

I've said thanks, I'll say it again.. cheers. I meant it then, I mean it now.

Now can we stop this?

Thanks TSK, some good ones there. Especially "He's all over his machine" :)

ta

This site is pretty good.

Quality *

“Look down the valley…if you’ve got vertigo, sort of…don’t look down the valley.”

Courtesy of Mark Cavendish, fast, and full of graceful arrogance:

''When journalists at the Tour de France ask me if I am the best sprinter, I answer 'Yes', and that's seen as arrogance, but if they don't ask me, I don't say I'm the best sprinter in the world.''

''The fact is, you look at the replays of my wins at the Tour, and I'm the fastest sprinter. I'm stating a fact. It's not just me saying 'I'm the fastest sprinter' without backing it up - I'm stating a fact, you know? I don't see how that can be seen as arrogance when it's just telling the truth. But people can take me as they want? I don't give a shit really.''

''The others were all trying to save themselves for the team time trial. We were the only sprint team willing to take responsibility. All the other teams are riding like they're juniors and if they want to behave that way then they get results like juniors.''

I missed those.. not quite what I wanted, but wow.. good quotes.

"Racing is licking your opponent’s plate clean before starting on your own."

"Bicycle racing is a sport of patience."

"I’m too exhausted to hide my exhaustion."

"If 10 will kill you I'll take 9" or something like that. Tom Simpson

I think you'll find that it's if 10 will kill you, take 11 and try to get to the top of the hill before your heart explodes.

And the winner is Alfred Jarry for The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race, first few lines below;

Barabbas, slated to race, was scratched.
Pilate, the starter, pulling out his clepsydra or water clock, an operation which wet his hands unless he had merely spit on them -- Pilate gave the send-off.
Jesus got away to a good start.
In those days, according to the excellent sports commentator St Mathew, it was customary to flagellate the sprinters at the start the way a coachman whips his horses. The whip both stimulates and gives a hygienic massage. Jesus, then, got off in good form, but he had a flat right away. A bed of thorns punctured the whole circumference of his front tyre.
Today in the shop windows of bicycle dealers you see a reproduction of this veritable crown of thorns as an ad for puncture-proof tyres. But Jesus's was an ordinary single-tube racing tyre...

the other winner If I can find it is Flann O Brien's Third Policeman.

"Racing is licking your opponent’s plate clean before starting on your own."

"Bicycle racing is a sport of patience."

"I’m too exhausted to hide my exhaustion."

Who said that mate?

Those three are from "The Rider" by Tim? Krabbe but I think one or more may actually be quotes from other riders.

Those three are from "The Rider" by Tim? Krabbe but I think one or more may actually be quotes from other riders.

Cheers *

"Cycling through the East End of London is the most infuriating and dangerous thing I have ever done"

Me

My favourite quote from this year's tour, from the erudite and eminently quotable Bradley Wiggins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rzuujKpuF0

I've never read Terre des hommes by Antoine de Saint Exupéry but I really want to. I imagine it may have some good quotes in it. Possibly.

Boardman! A fucking cyclist!? Are you fucking joking!? Everybody fucking hates cyclists!! Even cyclists hates cyclists!!!

MalcolmTucker

I still feel that varable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer?
We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!

--Henri Desgrange, L'Équipe article of 1902

via sheldon brown

+1

look down there VVV

:)

i love that tucker quote

one of my favourites is from Fiddy's first ride, the immortal "help, i cant stop, i have no brakes" before wiping out object and mashton

i use it when peds jump out on me, puts the fear of god into them