"It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldn’t be fun."
- Robert Penn
"The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh."
- Dan Golding
"As your training moves from base training to more intense work, to tapering, your nutrition needs to change."
- Charlotte Campbell
"you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play."
- Rosemary Rawlins
"The peloton was Facebook on wheels-and during this period, information was flying."
- Tyler Hamilton
"The bike does this; it is an apotheosis of self-sufficiency, in which a well-loved machine will unhesitatingly and quietly mediate intentional being into momentum. As you ride a bike and start to ride..."
- Robin Holt
"Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built."
- Ryan Lilly
"We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in."
- Neil M. Hanson
"Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridg..."
- Jack London
"Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned."
- The Velominati