Got any good quotes...

_Ferret_

My mate told me a good one today:

"Downhilling - because for golf or football you only need one ball..."


I also still love Rob Warners:

"Steve Peat - done more for mountainbiking than Osama Bin Laden has for terrorism!"

anybody else got some good ones?

delcol

if it can't be fixed with a hammer it must be an electrical fault.

MrChrisP

I'd heard this one before but had to look it up for the whole text:

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. 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

Oh and Mark Twain once said:

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.

I love that one

bamba

A mate said, the only thing slowing him down was his brakes,


he was thinking of upgrading to hydraulics brakes at the time.

Northwind

I always liked "Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling".

But "You will not regret it if you live" sums up mountain biking I think

joshtp

one of my faves was one my mate cought me saying on camera during one of those hazy, after - crash moments, even though it is mine, its pretty cool.
"oh dear, i seem to have hit a tree."
another was
"so why does it have brakes?!?!"
"those brakeless bmx's are like Elvis, everybody loves them,but they are a bit pointless and rubbish really."
and finally, my non biker friend, after he had recently bought a BSO, and i invited him to come riding...
"no, cuz i dont want to take my bike off road, cuz itll brake the disk brakes.... they'r only for the road..."

covelove

If you cant duck it...........f**k it!

duck tape holds my life together

BlackSpur

Northwind wrote:

I always liked "Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling".

As have I

Rich9

Nostalgia aint what it used to be :oops:

One of my current faves, was said by a work mate of mine while we were out in the peaks. Me complaining about being knackered, his retort - Shut the f**k up and pedal :roll:

BlackSpur

covelove wrote:

If you cant duck it...........f**k it!

duck tape holds my life together

Hate to burst your bubble and rhyming quote, but it's called duct tape

Northwind

BlackSpur wrote:

Hate to burst your bubble and rhyming quote, but it's called duct tape

ride_whenever

BlackSpur wrote:

covelove wrote:

If you cant duck it...........f**k it!

duck tape holds my life together

Hate to burst your bubble and rhyming quote, but it's called duct tape

both exist, duck tape is waterproof, duct tape is thermally stable to 150 degrees celcius for fixing ducts :P

Mc Smiley

Sorry but this childish remark has to go in
YOU JUST GOT TOLD

grumsta

'If it's got tyres or tits it's going to cost you lots of money' :twisted:

Mc Smiley

I like Lance Armstrongs one to Paraphrase
"Pain is temporary, but quitting is forever"

Also A rob Warner special
"sam hill, looser and faster than linford christies lunchbox"

.blitz

I don't share crash helmets, bikes or women.

bomberesque

HG Wells wrote:

whenever I see a grown man on a bicycle, I no longer fear for the future of mankind

benneally

Just wiped out and bent rear mech. I try in vain to fix it with multitool...
Me: "wow, thats fagged"
Alex: "Yep"
Me: "Scalpel!"
Alex hands me a massive log...

It worked though

El Capitano

"Where bike components are concerned:

Light, Cheap, Strong.

Pick 2 from that list."

P-Jay

Rob Warner, ever the proffesional, un biased sports comentatory at the worlds

"PEDAL YAH FAUCKER!"

"If it can't be fixed with duck tape, you clearly haven't used enough"

"A hedge is sofer than a car"

"never argue with fools or fanatics"

"does the pope shit in the woods"

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"Duck tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together"

Alex

"There is no money in mountainbiking"
Alex, circa 2004
and

"If you are asking on an internet forum about sponsorship, you aren't good enough to obtain it"
Alex, 5 minutes later.

And then of course there are the great philosophers:

"life's too short not to go big, ya gotta go big"
Bender; Josh

"You can't get hurt in the air, but you can't stay there, either."
The quotable cyclist

"Pin it ya fairy!"
Graves; Jared

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
Albert Einstein

"Cycle tracks will abound in utopia."
-H.G. Wells

"Just giver eh"
Klassen; Tyler

Or my personal mantra, as well as that of NSMB.com
"Commit or eat shit"

trekhead

if it`s got tits or wheels - you`ll have trouble with it

passout

'We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass!' (Bill Murry in Ghostbusters).

Northwind

passout wrote:

'We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass!' (Bill Murry in Ghostbusters).

I watched a mate of mine do a flying dismount at glentress, bounce along (and round a berm) and then fall into a ditch... Looked like he was dead tbh Then he opened his eyes and said "The flowers are still standing!" No situation can't be improved with a bit of Ghostbusters

deffler

If theres grass on the wicket, lets play cricket

P-Jay

Northwind wrote:

passout wrote:

'We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass!' (Bill Murry in Ghostbusters).

I watched a mate of mine do a flying dismount at glentress, bounce along (and round a berm) and then fall into a ditch... Looked like he was dead tbh Then he opened his eyes and said "The flowers are still standing!" No situation can't be improved with a bit of Ghostbusters

nwmlarge

pain is temporary pride is forever!

Duffer

All you need is duck tape and WD40: if it moves, but shouldn't - tape it. if it doesn't move, but should - WD40 it. and if that fails, fetch a hammer!

If it looks right, it's right!

Northwind

This is one that I got from a motorbike forum, on the subject of mods, but it works here:

"Don't diss the placebo effect- how well you think it works is more important than how well it actually works".

meesterbond

nwmlarge wrote:

pain is temporary pride is forever!

or, on a similar theme...

'Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory, lasts forever...'

ride_whenever

the entirety of al pacino's any given sunday speech...

this one although it actually is better applied to rowing!