http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Best ever quotes about cycling" en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:05:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200&page=2#post-380953 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:46:35 +0000 chdot 380953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Bintage adjective: like vintage, but either from, or fit for a bin. No individual part should be either fully intact and functional OR have reasonable financial value. Parts should not be worth your while to list on eBay or Craigslist or any other selling platform because of their intrinsically low value or slightly broken-ness </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://theradavist.com/brother-cycles-mr-wooden-bintage-review" rel="nofollow">https://theradavist.com/brother-cycles-mr-wooden-bintage-review</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200&page=2#post-378903 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:45:34 +0000 chdot 378903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“<br /> Those ecstatic, homeward-bound cycle rides are clearer and more joyful in my memory than all the spreads in The Face or the good reviews in Melody Maker that I was getting at the time.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/watch-it-mate-alexei-sayle-looks-back-on-his-30-years-of-twowheeling-around-london-2008642.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/watch-it-mate-alexei-sayle-looks-back-on-his-30-years-of-twowheeling-around-london-2008642.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200&page=2#post-371946 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:43:20 +0000 chdot 371946@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not “about” but highly relevant </p> <p>“</p> <p>I often say that when it comes to the critical need for better city-building decisions, the challenge isn’t knowing the right things to do anymore. It’s being more persuasive in the face of disinformation and ideology.</p> <p>We need to all be obsessed with the psychology of change.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1728791712498176286" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1728791712498176286</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-371221 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:35:38 +0000 gembo 371221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not a quote as such but the new statue of Michael Collins just unveiled in Cork City has him with his bicycle that he used to cycle around Dublin when there was a bounty on his head. He always kept a couple of those coconut chocolate bars inside his Homburg Hat for the purposes of energy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-371218 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:53:46 +0000 chdot 371218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“You get a bit out of practice – it’s not like riding a bike,” he says of restarting fatherhood </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/20/the-more-children-you-have-the-more-laissez-faire-you-get-mick-jagger-on-ageing-rage-and-missing-charlie-watts" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/20/the-more-children-you-have-the-more-laissez-faire-you-get-mick-jagger-on-ageing-rage-and-missing-charlie-watts</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-231826 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:33:43 +0000 Chug 231826@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Reasonable books too. Interesting perspectives on Japan. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-231698 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:04:30 +0000 Frenchy 231698@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em><a href="http://www.josiedew.com/about-me" rel="nofollow">http://www.josiedew.com/about-me</a></em></p> <p>What a great page.</p> <p>"we spent several long-winded hours getting lost looking for a place called Doorgaand Verkeer (on-going traffic)"</p> <p>"Thought I wouldn’t survive more than two weeks on my own. Ended up cycling 7000 miles in six months"</p> <p>"Had planned to cycle through Syria, Jordan and Israel to Egypt but Iraq invaded Kuwait"</p> <p>"Found myself cycling around Japan instead of New Zealand"</p> <p>Puts some surprise rain or missing the turn off to Roslin in perspective, doesn't it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-231690 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:29:14 +0000 chdot 231690@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The best thing about school was riding my bike there and back</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.josiedew.com/about-me" rel="nofollow">http://www.josiedew.com/about-me</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23413 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:25:53 +0000 recombodna 23413@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Heh heh!! I figured Kaye Adams might be able to strip the wall paper with her voice alone..........Her show really is the lowest common denominator! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23388 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:34:57 +0000 LaidBack 23388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>rcbda</strong> <em>Listening to kaye adam's show this morning whilst stripping wall paper </em></p> <p>Hope you didn't gouge the plaster too much!<br /> Bring back Lesley Riddoch - she's much better for stripping wallpaper to. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23386 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:54:42 +0000 recombodna 23386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"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." ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green</p> <p>or</p> <p>"Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history." ~P.J. O'Rourke </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23385 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:47:48 +0000 steveo 23385@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So back on topic... Just found this one, should forward it to Borris and cc "Call me" Dave.<br /> <em>“When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.”</em><br /> Boris Johnson, The Guardian, March 18, 2006 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23383 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:35:14 +0000 recombodna 23383@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh I see. sorry my bad! Cheers. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23382 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:29:37 +0000 steveo 23382@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I agree with what you have said". "This" is easier to type.... ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23380 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:17:20 +0000 recombodna 23380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23377 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:07:51 +0000 steveo 23377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"As a driver /pedestrian /cyclist I don't understand why people don't just chill out/slow down/look where they're going/ communicate with their fellow human beings.....peace man! "</em></p> <p>This. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23376 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:05:40 +0000 recombodna 23376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <br /> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23375 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:05:38 +0000 recombodna 23375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"That's a brave thing to admit on here!"</p> <p>Yeah well I'm a total petrol head at heart. I've watched top gear since I was a kid and have always enjoyed tinkering with engines and motorbikes. </p> <p>Nothing beats cycling though (quite literally in the city centre). chdot's right it's the persecuted minority reinforcing that's the problem.Listening to kaye adam's show this morning whilst stripping wall paper and they were talking about introducing a jay walking law to stop people throwing themselves under cars.......jeezso! ( Obviously cyclists running reds and cycling on the pavement came up......begs the question why do we have traffic cops if all drivers never break the law?) As a driver /pedestrian /cyclist I don't understand why people don't just chill out/slow down/look where they're going/ communicate with their fellow human beings.....peace man! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23351 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:56:02 +0000 chdot 23351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A couple of years ago I was in various primary schools after the TG where a bicycle won a cross London race. </p> <p>A lot of them had seen it and were impressed. It really was quite a surrising result and obviously not a fix. </p> <p>However most weeks there are very different things/attitudes to be remembered by children and adults. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23350 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:52:07 +0000 chdot 23350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"people just need to learn not to take Clarkson seriously"</p> <p>That's true and I'm sure most people manage - it's the people who have their view that they are in a persecuted minority re-inforced that are the problem... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23348 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:47:10 +0000 steveo 23348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>That's a brave thing to admit on here!</em></p> <p>I enjoy topgear too, people just need to learn not to take Clarkson seriously, much like the right thinking people of the world don't take the Daily Fail seriously. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23345 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:22:54 +0000 chdot 23345@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I love top gear and last nights episode was pretty good."</p> <p>That's a brave thing to admit on here!</p> <p>One of the great things about this forum is that it attracts people who like bikes/cycling for all sorts of reasons.</p> <p>I assume most/all want to see more people cycling - especially in Edinburgh.</p> <p>Certainly time more politicians and transport professionals realised that there aren't just two sorts of people 'cyclists' (who have to be listened to a bit) and 'everyone else'.</p> <p>This is where 'pedestrians' (i.e. people who walk - i.e. most people) tend to get ignored completely in favour of 'keeping the traffic moving'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23340 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:28:15 +0000 recombodna 23340@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I love top gear and last nights episode was pretty good. I don't mind Clarkson having a go at cyclists....it's what he does.....he's a profesional T\/\/@T and at least you've got Hammond there to back up the cyclists.....it's just entertainment. BUT I have to say I didn't see the Mexican thing but when I googled it today I was pretty shocked.No excuse for that sort of blatant racism on the BBC........or anywhere really!!.................and it's not even funny.....at all......none of it! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23288 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:07:38 +0000 SRD 23288@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>d'you think he'd make it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23286 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:54:34 +0000 ruggtomcat 23286@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yup me too :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23284 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:40:44 +0000 kaputnik 23284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For what it's worth, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/">I lodged a complaint</a>. I can't keep moaning about things if I'm not willing to moan at the perpetrator I suppose, hopefully if enough other cyclists follow suit there can be a significant mass of complaints to force the BBC to take some sort of action.</p> <p>In my complaint I suggested;</p> <p><em>I don't think Jeremy Clarkson should be made to apologise. I think the best punishment would be to open his eyes and his mind a little - give him a bike and a helmet camera and tell him to cycle across London and capture the abuse and poor driving that he encounters.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23279 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:06:28 +0000 ruggtomcat 23279@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=43702">Here we go!</a></p> <p>Warning! They are not so civilized over there.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23228 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:18:13 +0000 SRD 23228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Haven't seen last night's episode, but what got me about the Mexican thing is that none of what they said was funny, except the jab at the ambassador, which did make me laugh. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/05/top-gear-offensive-steve-coogan?intcmp=239">Coogan's piece in the Observer was good though.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23221 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:18:34 +0000 kaputnik 23221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's hardly worth bothering. It will be held up by Clarkson and his ilk of proof of the "war on the motorist" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2200#post-23220 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:59:23 +0000 ruggtomcat 23220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, wonder if we can get them to apologize <em>again</em>? </p>