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“The bicycle saves my life every day. If you've ever experienced a moment of awe or freedom on a bicycle; if you've ever taken flight from sadness to the rhythm of two spinning wheels, or felt the resurgence of hope pedalling to the top of a hill with the dew of effort on your forehead; if you've ever wondered, swooping down bird-like down a long hill, if the world was standing still; if you have ever, just once, sat on a bicycle with a singing heart and felt like an ordinary human touching the gods, then we share something fundamental. We know it's all about the bike.”
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“A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”
― It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
― It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
“And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.”
― It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
― It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
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