#cycling

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#beijing #centre #cycling #example #for example

Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#cycling #training #love

Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn't matter where you are, when you're on the saddle, you're taken away. ↗

— Doug Donaldson

#inspirational #freedom

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#into #liar #problem #professional #represents

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great. ↗

— David Millar

#clean #come #cycling #economics #funding

I call it “pedal magic” and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path—cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy. ↗

— Frosty Wooldridge

#dating

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#ashamed #comes #faced #fatigue #i

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#lining #open #road #spectators

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it. ↗

— Eric Bana

#cycling #exercise #i #just #love

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#disposable #easier #even #fix #give