125+ Best Quotes For Your Bicycle Company [2024]

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Looking for inspirational quotes for your bicycle company?

Whether you’re looking for motivation, a witty instagram caption, or something to win over your team and customers, we have you covered.

We put together a list of 125+ best quotes for your bicycle company [2024].

Here they are:

Inspirational Quotes

“Be careful with this marketing tools. Is very easy to spend thousands of pounds per month they will show you good results according to their tools but you need to check the reality.” – Xavier Claveria Masip, founder of Santafixie
“The quality of the product is the most important thing. Your brand, your reputation, and the overall health of the business rely heavily on it.” – Mehdi Farsi, founder of State Bicycle Co.
“I usually advise people to take risks early on. When you are more established you have more to lose.” – Mehdi Farsi, founder of State Bicycle Co.
“When all the shops asked how fast we could deliver our initial Sole bicycles, we knew we had product-market fit and a customer in hand. Our first container of bicycles sold out in less than two weeks…. 157 bicycles.” – Jonathan Shriftman, founder of Sole Bicycles
“Over 60% of our traffic is attributable to word-of-mouth marketing. We know this because when people purchase, we have an attribution pop-up to ask how they heard about the brand. Nothing better than referrals from friends, family, and colleagues.” – Jonathan Shriftman, founder of Sole Bicycles
“I just wasn't earning enough money to support my wife and child, just having a basic lifestyle was making us get further into debt with every month that went by.” – Ruan Deyzel, founder of Spoke Works cc
“I always tell myself that I cannot just sit in my office hoping for business to come my way. The best thing is to get in the car or in the airplane face your fears and make it happen!” – Ruan Deyzel, founder of Spoke Works cc
“I think that business owners can often feel isolated and alone facing the problems they have and reading about great companies like Nike and that they went through exactly the same issues really makes it better!” – Ruan Deyzel, founder of Spoke Works cc
"To possess a bicycle is to be able first to look at it, then to touch it. But touching is revealing as insufficient; what is necessary is to be able to get on the bicycle and take a ride. But this gratuitous ride is likewise insufficient; it would be necessary to use the bicycle to go on some errands…Finally, as one could foresee, handing over a banknote is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Over-exertion, the upright position on the wheel, and the unconscious effort to maintain one’s balance tend to produce a wearied and exhausted “bicycle face.” - The Literary Digest
“When I go biking I am mentally far, far away from civilisation. The world is breaking someone else’s heart.” - Diane Ackerman
“Wheel, kindly light, along life’s cycle path, wheel thou on me! The road is round, I have discerned thy wrath, But wheel me on!” - Christian hymn
"On my tenth birthday, a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India." - Dervla Murphy
“Bicycles are the indicator species of a community, like shellfish in a bay.” - P. Martin Scott
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires." - Leon Trotsky
"An engineer designing from scratch could hardly concoct a better device to unclog modern roads – cheap, non-polluting, small, and silent." - Rick Smith
“I don’t ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days.” - Unknown
"Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward. " - George Weah
"Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization." - George Bernard Shaw
"I’ve never been particularly aware of my age. It’s like being on a bicycle – I just put my foot down and keep going. " - Angela Lansbury
“I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.” - Stephen Roche
"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit." - Billy Connolly
"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavor – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy." - Jeremy Corbyn
"Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside. " - Valentino Rossi
“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.” - Bob Weir
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.” - John F. Kennedy
“Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” - Albert Einstein
“What’s with these recumbent bicycles? Listen, buddy, if you wanna take a nap, lie down. If you wanna ride a bike, buy a fucking bicycle.” - George Carlin
“As a kid, I had a dream – I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.” - John Lennon
“You are one ride away from a good mood.” - Sarah Bentley

Professional Quotes

“Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” - Charles M. Schultz
"Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation." - Kristin Armstrong
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them." - Ernest Hemingway
"In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I’m doing in that quiet time is just observing." - Robin Williams
"A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke." - Scott Stoll
"Roads to ride before I sleep." - Andy Atticus
“Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever.” - Hugh Pearman
“You have no such accurate remembrance of a country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” - Ernest Hemingway
“It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.” - Anonymous
"I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet before the band became a career, and I’ve just always been a cyclist – I BMX’d, and then I got really into – through messengering – I got really into road bikes and fixed gears, which I still have." - Matt Skiba
"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world." - Grant Petersen
“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.” - Albert Einstein
"I’m embarrassed that people will know that I can’t ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn’t in the mood for a bike ride." - Jill Soloway
"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle." - Dean Kamen
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realise fishing is stupid and boring.” -Desmond Tutu
"At that age, it’s one of the worst things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it." - Curtis Jackson
"Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever." - Hugh Pearman
"Your bike is a discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn’t matter where you are when you’re on the saddle, you’re taken away." - Doug Donaldson
“You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t. And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.” - Keith Mills
“I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.” - William Saroyan
"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life." - Brian Tracy
“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.” - Mark Twain
“Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love.” - Johan Museeuw
"Nature loves bicycles because no harm to nature comes from the bicycle!" - Mehmet Murat ildan
"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying. " - Greg LeMond
"The main thing I’m into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I’m really into the idea of making up journeys and just seeing where they take you because they always end up taking you someplace freaky." - Tom Jenkinson
"There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast." - Paul Scott Mowrer
"Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!" - Mehmet Murat ildan
"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. " - John F. Kennedy
"One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle. " - Michael Palin

Life Quotes

"My biggest fear is not crashing on a bike… It’s sitting in a chair at 90 and saying, ‘I wish I had done more." - Graeme Obree
"To me, it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike, I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world." - Mark Cavendish
"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"If I can bicycle, I bicycle." - David Attenborough
“Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.” - José Antonio Viera-Gallo
"Don’t buy upgrades, ride upgrades." - Eddy Merckx
“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.” - Grant Petersen
“The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.” - Ivan Illich
"The finest mode of transport known to man." - Adam Hart-Davis
“If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles.” - Carl Sagan
"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles M. Schulz
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." - Gloria Steinem
"Forget the worries, just ride." - Unknown
"The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard." - Sloan Wilson
“Bicycle is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.” - Louis J. Helle Jnr
“The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remain pure in heart.” - Iris Murdoch
"The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty if I’m employed." - Samuel Beckett
"There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle!" - Mehmet Murat ildan
"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." - James E. Starrs
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.” - Elizabeth West
"Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking." - Godo Stoyke
"People love cycling but hate cyclists." - Peter Zanzottera
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H. G. Wells
"You do not need a therapist if you own a cycle!" - Dan Aykroyd
"I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one’s self simply, like a boy." - Leo Tolstoy
"One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle." - Michael Palin
"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world." - Grant Petersen
“The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realisation that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.” - Sloan Wilson
"Four wheels move the body, Two wheels move the soul." - Unknown
“Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.” - Lord Charles Beresford
"Good thing riding a bicycle is as easy as riding a bicycle." - Becca Droz

Positive Quotes

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine." - John Howard
“My legs and a silly something in me cry out for knocking the milestones down one by one and stopping at nothing. For year I have been telling myself that it’s not the mile in the life that count, but the life in the miles. But still this silly restlessness hurries me on.” - Harold Elvin
"As a kid, I had a dream – I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bikes in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed." - John Lennon
"Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle!" - Mehmet Murat ildan
"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. And, we know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off." - William Golding
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. " - Albert Einstein
“Maybe, deep down, cyclists know that hills, and the temporary pain and struggle they involve, are a fantastic metaphor for life. It’s shit when you’re struggling. But the pain will end. It always does. There’s always a summit. You’ve just got to keep going.” - Mike Carter
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets." - Christopher Morley
“The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it.” - Doug Bradbury
“You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you’re having a good day.” - Daniel Behrman
“The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.” - Mario Cipollini
“Cyclists see considerably more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well-applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to.” - Dr K.K. Doty
"You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you’re having a good day." - Daniel Behrman
“When my legs hurt, I say: ‘Shut up, legs! Do what I tell you to do!'” - Jens Voigt
"Work to eat. Eat to live. Live to bike. Bike to work." - Unlnown
“Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people.” - Chip Brown
"The bike will transform anyone who is willing to let it happen." - Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
"Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.| - Billy Connolly
“[The bicycle] is no longer a beast of steel… no, it is a friend… It is a faithful and powerful ally against one’s worst enemies. It is stronger than anxiety, stronger than sadness. It has all the power of hope.” - Maurice Leblanc
"If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles." - Professor Carl Sagan
"Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it but the world at large." - Udo E. Simonis
"You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you’re having a good day". - Daniel Behrman
"I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things." - Lech Walesa
“It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.” - Heinz Stucke
“One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.” - Michael Palin
"It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels." - Heinz Stucke
“Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.” - Eddy Merckx
“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: it does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.” - J.B. Jackson
“I feel that I am entitled to my share of light-heartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one’s self simply, like a boy.” - Leo Tolstoy
“To me, it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” - Mark Cavendish
"The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind." - William Saroyan

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