Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Byrne

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.

Most of the kids call her Granny and they leave their bikes at her house in the morning when they catch the (school) bus. She always has lots of animals.

Eric Hyman

We'll go out and ride bikes after you practice. You'll have a hard time keeping up with me. But I'll put training wheels on your bike.

I looked over at the new elementary school and saw all the bikes out there, and none of them were locked up.

Jack Roush

If (a racer) gets a chance to race more, he'll do a better job for you. If they put themselves in a situation with good equipment, it doesn't worry me. What worries me is the off-the-track stuff. Carl Edwards is off jumping dirt bikes now. That worries me.

Valentino Rossi

I think it's going to test the riders and the bikes to the maximum.

I'd love to stay here because of the location. It is a fairly safe area. A lot of the kids live around here and sometimes ride their bikes here.

From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. I would have anticipated more accidents.

Alexa Vega

I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up the courage to go in, and now we're hooked!

We would save up our money, then we'd ride our bikes to the hardware store and buy nails.

We've got a tremendous response. There will be people from all over the country. If the weather is good, like it's supposed to be, you'll see some of these bikes around town.

We had nothing but black kids on bikes with acorns.

When I turned the key on, I was so nervous. I didn't know whether I turned it on or not. Then I didn't know how to start it because it didn't have a push button like your conventional bikes do.

Reggie Brown

When you?re pushing and you?re pedaling for like two hours straight, it really helps your wind and your endurance, ... And you might not think about it, but you get a good upper body workout, too, because you?re just holding yourself up the whole time you?re pedaling. A lot of people who don?t ride bikes regularly, when they get off, their upper body is sore. They?re not used to holding themselves up for that long of a period of time.

Chris King

Some of these guys are going to ride down and just park their bikes and forget about them. They won't have to worry about drinking and driving or anything else. We hope that will cut down some of the noise and traffic.

Austin Nichols

L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.

Thomas Sangster

I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

Chris Froome

I wouldn't recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley.

More than one third of bikes on the road are in the name of their original keepers and only 40 per cent have had more than two keepers.

Most people who want bikes are not able to find Harley-Davidson bikes -- the kind they want -- if they have a specific color or model they're looking for. In general, demand far exceeds supply.

Marcus would come in at 6 a.m.. Then, he would go to his classes and then come back at night and go again. He would mix things up with the bikes or the climbers. He goes at least 30 minutes each time and often goes an hour.

We came back in the fall, bought bikes and started riding.

Rex Harrison

Around here, people don't look for bikes because they're just not used to them. Therefore, we don't get seen.

Dogs chase bikes and vehicles. It doesn't mean it's aggressive.

Noah Hathaway

The bikes we're building... I build the frame, pipes, handlebars. We're sending stuff to get patented so people don't steal our stuff.

They would park at the football stadium and ride the buses or ride their bikes ... Whatever.

They have ridden bikes in the past down the road with no crash helmets, no nothing on, and people say that's a double standard.

To a certain extent, the China story is easy to absorb. It's the most populous country in the world; it's moving rapidly up the economic ladder; it's going from bikes to cars. But it's tricky because that doesn't get to the point that a fast-growing economy means your investment is going to do well.

We're not only coming to the end of the year, but the end of a millennium, so for anything tied to a model year, like cars, bikes and electronics, you should be able to get a pretty good deal on now.

We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finish the stage safely you need to keep out of the dust of the car in front. It was just like a long train of cars and bikes today. There was no chance to get into a rhythm.

I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

People ride bikes thinking there's nothing wrong with them. And, that's not always the case.