“You get on this simple machine, you hold the handlebars, you press down on the pedals with your feet, and you go. That’s what you do, and to a boy of eight or nine, going is the thing, going is living. It is experience, art, observation. It is even religion, even if you are an atheist or think you are. As for myself, I have never had any impulse to confine myself to any such theory of disbelief. I am a believer, and my faith is enlarged by the awesome reality of the bicycle, and by the meaning of ownership and usage of the contraption, or marvel.”

William Saroyan

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“Explore unfamiliar sections—on foot if wet, on bicycle, if dry.”

Henry Miller

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“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

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“Like many people, I’m frustrated at the round of buying stuff that is designed to be replaced quickly. I want to break the loop with this bike. I’m going to ride it for thirty years or more and I want to savor the process of acquiring it. I want the best bike I can afford, and I want to grow old with it.”

Robert Penn

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“Handing over a bank-note is enough to make the bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Who climbs with toil, wheresoe’er,
Shall find wings waiting there.”

Henry Charles Beeching

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“Did it not see me through all my times of trouble and despair?”

Henry Miller

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