Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.

--  Susan B. Anthony

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.  --  H.G. Wells

I thought of that while riding my bike.

- Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity

It never gets easier, you just go faster.

--  Greg LeMond

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created:  Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.  -- Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist