When I see an adult on a bicycle...

[paul]

I do not despair for the future of the human race.  ~H.G. Wells

[paul]

Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man.  And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became.  Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others.  Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.  ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills

[paul]

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!

- Henri Desgrange, L'Equipe article of 1902

[david_f]

some of us were born old.

[Alex Thompson]

Well this may not be originally about bicycling, but for those of us who like to ride hard maybe this can be thought of as about biking, particularly the free bit:

"Running to him was real, the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free."

Once A Runner, John L Parker, Jr.

[B Love]

"Riding is like the wind beneath my wings."

                -Alex, humping a torque wrench.  circa, 2007





sorry, bro.  It had to be done.  That Franz photo is funny.  Maybe we can shoot for week after next to drop off that indoor bike rack to you in C City.