Notable Cyclists

Today I have decided to let the proud and the proven speak about your beloved bicycle. See what they have to say about cycling and then try and tell me that the bicycle doesn’t have the power to change the world……..if you can.

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” – John F. Kennedy

“As a kid I had a dream – I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got he bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.” – John Lennon

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Chasing records doesn’t keep me on my bike. Happiness does.” – Lance Armstrong after his third Tour de France victory

“Few articles ever used by man (or woman) have ever created so great a revolution in social conditions.” – Fred C. Kelly

“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires.” – Leon Trotsky

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” – Mark Twain

“Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on m y tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.” – Helen Keller

“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym.” –Bill Nye the Science Guy

“Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government.” – Advocacy slogan in Holland

“I’m not going to be doing any Tour de Frances or big mountain bike courses, but it’s good to mix things up.” – Shaquille O’Neal

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.” – Albert Einstein – on the theory of relativity

Thoughts that may or may not move you but, none the less, makes me want to ride my bike.

Cheers until next week.

Willie Henry
www.johnhenrybikes.com
info@johnhenrybikes.com

P.S. Speaking of moving you; John Henry’s Riding club, ‘Pedals and Pints’, has a fantastic riding adventure in early July. The first thirteen people registered for this sweet trip are in for a weekend of heli-biking. That’s right – up in a helicopter and down through some sick single track. Check out this wicked trip here or email our club director Kelly Owens at kowens8@telus.net. Get your name in now because this trip will fill up quickly. While you are at it sign up for the remainder of the year of the ‘Pedals and Pints’ riding club.