My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.
Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.
The main thing is to not cut yourself and bleed to death in the tub.
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.
I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
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.
I guess I just have bigger ovaries.
I'm the paté on the Universal cracker. I'm the grout holding your shower tiles on. I'm out of the saddle, sprinting up that hill and eating glazed donut bracelets off the right arm of Jesus.
As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.
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.
While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the days when I first discovered it. I am convinced that long after I have stopped riding as a professional I will be riding my bicycle. 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.
My favorite toast is rye toast.
Cycling is suffering.