The Quotable Bicycle

Hello, how lovely to see you! I hope your week is going well so far and you’ve had a chance to get out on your bike 🙂 I’ve been enjoying my last week of biking to work as next week I’ll be back at uni. I’m hoping that I’ll manage to fit all of my textbooks into my bike basket!

So today I thought it would be fun to get some other people’s perspectives on riding a bike. Since its invention in the early 1800s, the humble bicycle has attracted much comment and discussion from many great minds. Here are a few of my favourite quotes from around the internet:

 

“Nothing Compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.” – John F. Kennedy

 

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.” -Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity

 

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” – Ernest Hemingway

 

“Think of bicycles as ridable art that can just about save the world.” – Grant Peterson

 

“Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.” – H.G. Wells

 

“Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.” – James E. Starrs

 

“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” – William Saroyan, Nobel prize winner

 

I hope you enjoyed those, they certainly made me smile. And if you needed anything else to brighten up your day, here’s Audrey with her bike.

Bike to Work Day

So today was Bike to Work Day. The set-up on Queens Wharf included free bagels and coffee, awesome entertainment, and many beautiful people on bikes!

Leah (above) and Christina (below) are some of the fabulous ladies from Frocks on Bikes – see https://frocksonbikes.wordpress.com

Hilary on her way to work wearing a lovely dress

Rachel and Henry looking effortlessly cool with their bikes

 

Huge thank you to all of the organisers for such a great event!

Happy riding x

This is me. And this is my bike.

This is me. And this is my bike. We’ve only become friends recently, but so far it’s been a beautiful friendship.

My bike is blue – a nice bright blue. And that’s about all I can tell you. I’ve no idea what make it is or if it’s any good. But to me, it is great. It gets me places, whether that be into town for work or uni, down to the local library, or round the coast for a bit of fun. Oh, and it has a mirror (for seeing approaching traffic, but also comes in handy for checking my lipstick) and a basket. No more need for backpacks now that my handbag fits perfectly into the basket!

My helmet is pink – a very light pink. It has POC written on it which stands for ‘piece of cake.’ I think that this is rather cute so I always make a point of telling anyone who comments on it.

We do make a good team. I do all the work going up the hills and then my bike does the work going down the other side. It is quite fun.

So I suppose this is a good moment to finish. It’s always a bit tricky to know what to put in the first blog post so I thought an introduction would be best. So there you have it! We’re introduced. Me and my bike.