These bicycle quotes and captions are good to reflect on after a nice ride. There’s something magical about the pedal-powered machine that provides simple transportation, good exercise, and years of enjoyment. That’s captured in the cycling sayings and captions listed below.
Best Bicycle Quotes
Here were our panel’s favorite quotes about bicycling and cycling.
1.) The bike will transform anyone who is willing to let it happen.
Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
2.) Forget the worries, just ride.
Unknown
3.) Four wheels move the body, Two wheels move the soul.
Unknown
4.) Bicycles are the most efficient vehicles on the planet, 50 times more efficient than cars, and twice as efficient as walking.
Godo Stoyke
5.) Roads to ride before I sleep.
Andy Atticus
6.) Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
7.) If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
David Attenborough
Motivational Cycling Sayings
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
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
There is beauty in silence, and there is silence in beauty, and you can find both in a bicycle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Bicycle means simplicity, and simplicity means happiness!
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
An engineer designing from scratch could hardly concoct a better device to unclog modern roads – cheap, non-polluting, small, and silent…
Rick Smith
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
Good Bicycle Quotes
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
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
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
The finest mode of transport known to man.
Adam Hart-Davis
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
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
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
Michael Palin
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
Inspirational Bicycle Quotes
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
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
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
Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.
Kristin Armstrong
Don’t buy upgrades, ride upgrades.
Eddy Merckx
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
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
Education is a continual process; it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal, you don’t go forward.
George Weah
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
Life Is Like A Bicycle Quote by Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
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Short Cycling Quotes
Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it but the world at large.
Udo E. Simonis
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
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
John F. Kennedy
Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi
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
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
You never have the wind with you — either it is against you, or you’re having a good day.
Daniel Behrman
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.
Grant Petersen
Nature loves bicycles because no harm to nature comes from the bicycle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bikers gonna bike.
Andy Atticus
Funny Bicycle Quotes
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.
Dean Kamen
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
Work to eat. Eat to live. Live to bike. Bike to work.
Unknown
You do not need a therapist if you own a cycle!
Dan Aykroyd
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
Quotes about Biking
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… you have to understand what she wants.
Valentino Rossi
I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active in one’s work.
Bernard Hinault
Belief in yourself and your cycling goals is the ignition switch that gets you off the sofa and onto your bike.
Felicity Luckey
I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Emo Philips
I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life. I will usually disappear for a couple of hours, and that time on my bike is quite sacred, as it’s when I do all my serious thinking. Sometimes I will stop off at bikers’ cafe and have a bacon sandwich.
Paul Hollywood
I don’t ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days.
Unknown
I love being on my bike, but I don’t consider that a sport: it’s too pleasant.
John Cooper Clarke
The older I get, the faster I was. There are old bikers, and there are bold bikers, but there are no old, bold bikers.
Evel Knievel
There are two kinds of riders: Those who have crashed and those who will.
Unknown
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Lance Armstrong
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
Cool Bicycle Quotes
We think you’re going to like these fun bicycle quotes.
When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall. Otherwise, you’re not riding hard.
George W. Bush
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it, you will win nothing.
Eddy Merckx
You are one ride away from a good mood.
Sarah Bentley
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Susan B. Anthony
I find buying a bicycle is a great way to stay in touch with people.
Jan Chipchase
Cycling to work is an important issue for business – the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.
Sir Digby Jones
You are likely to fall when you stop pedaling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don’t give up, you will never end up failing!
Israelmore Ayivor
The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Just do it.
Nike
Throughout human history, in any great endeavor requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned – it is only through the seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
Ban Ki-moon
Bicycles Sayings
When your legs scream, stop, and your lungs are bursting, that’s when it starts. That’s the hurt locker. Winners love it there.
Chris McCormack
Nothing compares to getting your heart rate up to 170-something, riding hard for an hour-twenty, getting off and not hurting, as opposed to 24 minutes of running, at the end of which I hurt. When you ride a bike, and you get your heart rate up, and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes, your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax.
President George W. Bush
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
James E. Starrs
Devised almost 200 years ago by a practical German baron, the bicycle has evolved into an urban staple. Beloved of children, prized by inner-city commuters, it can be a lifesaver when summer smog chokes the nation.
Globe And Mail, Canada
The cyclist is a man half made of flesh and half of steel that only our century of science and iron could have spawned.
Louis Baudry de Saunier
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
Riding a bike is everything to a cyclist. The friendship and camaraderie you have with other cyclists …to a cyclist, it was the be-all and end-all of your life.
Tommy Godwin
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
Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
Eddy Merckx
Bicycling Captions For Instagram
You had a nice weekend ride, and I even took some great photos of you on your bike in a beautiful setting. What’s next? Posting the photos on Instagram or Facebook, but do you need a caption? Well, we can help. Read on, please.
- Cycologist!
- No more worries.
- Rolling into the best days of summer.
- Biking my way through the world.
- Ride with your soul.
- A bumpy ride.
- Infinitive fuel!
- Ride to burn off the crazy.
- The best machine ever created.
- Dream Big, Pedal Hard.
- Our chains set us free!
- This is how I roll.
- When in doubt, pedal it out!
- Too sexy for my car!
- It never gets easier, you just get faster.
- The best routes are the ones I haven’t yet taken.
- Keep calm and pedal on.
- There was a massive tropical storm while I was out riding my bike. I decided to cyclone.
- Life is a beautiful ride.
- Born to ride.
- 0.0% Emission.
- Cycopath.
- I’m two tired.
- Back in the saddle.
- It’s just like riding a bike.
Bike Captions
I just wanna do adventurous things in my life.
Weapon of stress reduction.
My best buddy.
Cycling like a roller.
The bike now, work later.
A balanced life needs a balanced cycle!
I can & I will.
Life is a beautiful ride!
Save the planet, ride a bike.
I can’t be sad on my bike.
Born to ride.
Every day is leg day.
It’s just a hill; get over it!
My bike is calling, and I must go.
To maintain the balance, you have to move on.
We have only one life, so waste it with your cycle.
When in doubt, paddle it out.
I am the engine!
Riding a bicycle is like leading your journey in life.
When I am cycling, I live at that moment.
My ride!
Feet in pedals, head in clouds.
Ride and Climb!
Shut up, legs!
No matter how slow I can, I’m still lapping everyone on the couch.
Change the gear and go!
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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