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“As long as there’s someone who sees what I see and feels what I feel, then the fire inside me lives on in the numerous cyclists: boys, girls, men and women.”
Alfonsina Strada is the only woman to have ridden the Giro d’Italia, 1924

“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.”

"We cannot continue to deceive ourself thinking that to paint a little line on a road is a bike way. A bicycle way that is not safe for an 8-year old is not a bicycle way"

“Cycling is one of the only things you can do in public as an adult that you used to do as a kid and not get funny looks. Riding a bike was fun when you were six and it's still fun when you're, say, 46"

“Bikes have the power to take the most mundane and monotonous of tasks—the physical act of getting into work—and turn it into whatever kind of adventure you want to have. Which is pretty damn rad if you ask me."

“I'm not scared of going slowly... only of not being able to move!"

“It’s a strange thing, as soon as you put on cycling gear you are no longer regarded as a human being. It’s ridiculous because we are all just people trying to make our way across a busy city.”

"It's just a matter of transportation: How do you want to move from one place to another? What do you think is best for you, for your well-being, health and happiness?"

"The bicycle is one of the most important inventions in history. It’s reckoned to be 20 times as efficient as walking, but is really still a form of pedestrianism. It’s leg-powered, and essentially free. It’s also unregulated, slightly anarchic, and possibly plays an important role in the model for utopia."