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Bicycle Quotes - The 52 Best Sayings About Cycling

Looking for inspirational bike quotes? Then you've come to the right place. I used to cycle because I hardly had any alternatives in the village. Today I cycle because I can get from A to B in the city faster than with any other means of transport. It's also the most environmentally friendly form of transportation and keeps me healthy.

I love it, Ride a bike - I just wish everyone thought like that. If you want to give yourself or other people that certain motivational boost to cycle with a few quotes, then simply use the following sayings about cycling, which should motivate everyone to get back on their bikes more often. Have fun!

My please: If you use one of the cycling quotes on your website, I would be delighted to receive a link to this elaborately compiled collection of sayings. Thank you very much for your support!

The best bike quotes at a glance

Cycling is healthy, quiet, space-saving and, above all, emission-free. It is THE means of transport to avoid the man-made climate change the fight. That's why it deserves to be promoted. With the following bicycle quotes, this should not be a problem!

Cycling quotes 1 - 10

  1. "Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." (John F. Kennedy)
  2. "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live." (Mark Twain)
  3. "I thought of that while riding my bicycle." (Albert Einstein)
  4. "Cycling is the best way to get to know a country, because you sweat up its hills and then race down them again." (Ernest Hemingway)
  5. "Putting all these pieces together, I finally thought to myself that a bike ride around the world begins really does begin with a single pedal stroke." (Scott Stoll)
  6. "It is not yet clear how cycling could become so fashionable, because it is sensible and it is neither cool, sexy nor erotic." (Joseph von Westphalen)
  7. "Cycling is about movement and freedom, on a bike you feel unbound, almost autonomous." (Ralf Hütter)
  8. "The straw with which I cling to the joy of life is instantaneously the bicycle." (Arthur Schnitzler)
  9. "Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless." (Zapata Espinoza)
  10. "Look at how a two-wheeler is set in motion and ride. If you are able to set your will in motion and ride like this, you will sit in the saddle like a master after some fluctuations." (Christian Morgenstern)

Cycling quotes 11 - 20

  1. "No other invention combines the useful with the pleasant as closely as the bicycle." (Adam Opel)
  2. "Give a man a fish and he can feed himself for a day. Teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for a lifetime. Teach a man to ride a bike and he realizes that fishing is a boring pastime." (Desmond Tutu)
  3. "Life is like riding a bike. You don't fall as long as you keep pedaling." (Claude Pepper)
  4. "Cycling is like a little vacation for me." (Wigald Boning)
  5. "The bicycle is the most civilized means of transport we know. Other forms of transportation are born more nightmarish every day. Only the bicycle keeps its pure heart." (Iris Murdoch)
  6. "Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." (James E. Starrs)
  7. "I called the bike my only friend. If it had been possible, I would probably have slept with him." (Henry Miller)
  8. "Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting women." (Bob Weir)
  9. "You either love whizzing along and watching the landscape whizz past you, or you don't. And if you love it, there's not much that can spoil the idea of being out on your bike." (Keith Mills)
  10. "Bikes always need a kick." (Almut Adler)

Cycling quotes 21 - 30

  1. "Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of mankind." (Charles Beresford)
  2. "Cycling gives me great pleasure: it's wonderful to sit down somewhere, a little tired and heated, and look out over the bushes, meadows and hills, and in the evening it's even wonderful to ride in the streets of the suburbs." (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
  3. "Fresh air? Freedom! Bicycle!" (Isabel Trimborn)
  4. "Cycling is not a game, cycling is a sport. Hard, relentless and unrelenting and you have to give up a lot. You play soccer or tennis or field hockey. But you don't play cycling." (Jean de Gribaldy)
  5. "The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat." (Hugo Camps)
  6. "I think cycling has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else. It gives women a sense of freedom and self-determination." (Susan B. Anthony)
  7. "Cycling comes closest to the flight of birds." (Louis J. Hall)
  8. "I've solved more problems in the saddle than in a conference room." (Andy Rihs)
  9. "You can always brake too late." (Claudio Chiappucci)
  10. "The pedestrians drag along with an indefinable slowness and gloom. One step on the crank and they are overtaken, they are already far away, already small. There is poetry in the haste." (Theodor Herzl)

Cycling quotes 31 - 40

Sayings about cycling
  1. "The weather has to be nasty for me to leave the bike in the garage." (Gustav Kilian)
  2. "When you're down, when the days seem darker and darker, when work seems monotonous, when it seems almost pointless to even hope, just get on your bike and race down the road with no thought of anything but your wild ride." (Arthur Conan Doyle)
  3. "Ride as much or as little, as far or not as far as you want. The main thing is that you ride." (Eddy Merckx)
  4. "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit." (Billy Connolly)
  5. "I'm a cycloholic." (Claudio Chiappucci)
  6. "The quality of life increases where the legs are used a little more and the elbows a little less." (Erhard Eppler)
  7. "This applies in space travel, at work, in politics, on the stock exchange and when cycling: You always go down faster than you go up." (Wolfgang J. Reus)
  8. "I don't cycle to add days to my life. I cycle to add life to my days." (Unknown)
  9. "Good advice/wheel is expensive." (Eddy Merckx)
  10. "When your legs are begging you to stop and your lungs are about to explode, that's when it really starts. That's the ocean of pain. Winners really get absorbed in it." (Chris McCormack)

Cycling quotes 41 - 52

  1. "No mercy for the calf." (Louis J. Hall)
  2. "The bike thing - now that people couldn't use their cars, they had to use their bikes, didn't they?" (Larry Harvey)
  3. "I love cycling because it clears my head for new ideas." (Christina Bacher)
  4. "Bicycle - environmentally friendly vehicle with health-promoting mechanics." (Manfred Hinrich)
  5. "I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old." (James May)
  6. "An increase in the number of cyclists brings with it an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists." (Ayanna Pressley)
  7. "It's the uncertainty that awaits me around the next bend that drives my wheels forward." (Heinz Stucke)
  8. "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." (H. G. Wells)
  9. "A bike made to measure is not snobbery, it's only sensible if you don't want to damage your back." (Friedrich Küppersbusch)
  10. "Money alone doesn't make you happy. You have to buy a bike with it." (Unknown)
  11. "Life is like a bicycle. You have to move forward so as not to lose your balance." (Albert Einstein)
  12. "Show me a problem in this world and I'll give you the bike as part of the solution." (Mike Sinyard)

Frequently asked questions about cycling

Why should you cycle more often?

The advantages of cycling include, for example, that you experience much more than in a car, that you are environmentally friendly, quiet, space-saving, inexpensive, more flexible and, last but not least, very healthy.

Is regular cycling healthy?

Riding your bike regularly is very healthy. Among other things, spending time on a bike improves your blood circulation, boosts your metabolism, burns calories and strengthens your cardiovascular system. Cycling also helps you to reduce stress and lower potentially high blood pressure.

Do you experience more on a bike than in a car?

If you want to experience a lot and get more excited about the little things in life, you should choose the bike over the car. You simply experience your surroundings more intensely because you travel more slowly and the environment doesn't just rush past you.

Use bike quotes and sayings about cycling

Bicycle Quotes And Sayings About Cycling

We humans are a burden on this planet. With our current behavior, we have caused many of the biggest environmental problems of our time conjured up. We emit greenhouse gases - again and again. We clog up the roads with oversized cars. And we even get into the driver's seat for the 200 meters to the bakery. The bike is the solution to these problems. All we have to do is sit on the handlebars and pedal.

I hope these bicycle quotes help you. Can you think of any others? Or do you want to get rid of something else? Then just write me a comment.

Stay sustainable,

Christoph from CareElite - Plastic-free living

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Christoph Schulz

Christoph Schulz

I'm Christoph, an environmental scientist and author - and here at CareElite I'm campaigning against plastic waste in the environment, climate change and all the other major environmental problems of our time. Together with other environmentally conscious bloggers, I want to give you tips & tricks for a naturally healthy, sustainable life as well as your personal development.

2 thoughts on “Fahrrad Zitate – Die 52 besten Sprüche über das Radfahren”

  1. Hans-Malta Niederstadt

    Hello Christoph,
    another good quote #51 from the writer
    George Orwell (bleak vision of the future 1984):

    Whenever I see an adult on a
    bicycle, I am concerned about the future of the
    Mankind no longer fears...

    Greetings from southern Lower Saxony
    Malta

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