What are your favourite Mountain Biking Quotes or Slogans?
Sell my bikes? I would rather shove wasps up my ass
From a sticker pack free with MBUK about mid 90's
I always wanted a T-shirt with:
Oooh
Ah
Ooof
Aah
Ooof
Aagh
Ya Bugger
Ooof
F*ck
Ow
That was the easy part!
Written down the back
Credit to whoever coined these but my favourites
"Mountain Biking, It's not about the miles, it's about the smiles"
"They can have my mountain bike when they pry my cold, dead fingers from it"
"How much will that be?"
Keith Bontrager: "Strong, Light, Cheap - Choose Two"
88: "Marriage, Weekend Riding, Happiness - Choose Two"
[i]There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles.[/i]
Can't for the life of me remember who said it 😕
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles.Can't for the life of me remember who said it
Not sure who said it either, but I'm pretty sure they were just stealing the line from Rat in Wind in the Willows 🙂 Who was referring to boats, rather than bicycles, of course.
LOL. T'interweb seems to credit Tom Kunich with it.
"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." John F. Kennedy
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Albert Einstein
"No hour is wasted that is spent in the saddle." Winston Churchill (ok, so not [i]exactly[/i] about bikes...!)
"Giving up downhill to focus on XC is like giving up sex to get better at chat-up lines." Someone on STW... 😉
Marco from Ciclo Montana has a few famous one liners
It's all down except the ups
Don't know whether the kashima coat works but it looks good
It's alright till some takes an eye out
Pad up boys
[i]'Just imagine you're cuddling a fat midget'[/i]
Skills course advice from none other than the bearded genius, mr Oxley.
'I just think it's neat' OK, may be a reference to a potato but works well for cycling.
"Giving up downhill to focus on XC is like giving up sex to get better at chat-up lines." Someone on STW...
Love it.
Hard tail or six inches at the rear.
What tyres for ...?
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.
- "Taming the Bicycle" Mark Twain
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No--and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.
- "Taming the Bicycle" Mark Twain
It was on the 10th day of May--1884--that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time.
The spectacles stayed on.
- Mark Twain's Speeches
I hope than when I die, my wife sells my bikes for what they are actually worth, not what she thinks they are worth.
Lol that last one sums most of us up
Nice one matt
I hope than when I die, my wife sells my bikes for what they are actually worth, not what she thinks they are worth.
Isn't the tag line "not what I told her they cost"
"It's a traverse"
"It's a cheeky climb"
"Pain is just weakness leaving the body. And when you run out of weakness, you die."
"Huck to..." combos well. I did a brilliant huck to spine last weekend.
H.G. Wells, 'Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race'.
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"If you get it wrong, you've got to eat it"
Which I think was Hans Rey c 1995
"Chocolate foot" also Hans Rey
my other bike is a bike
mattbee - Member
I hope than when I die, my wife sells my bikes for what they are actually worth, not what she thinks they are worth.
My wife, with her mountain bike, road bike and hack bike, has a pretty good idea of what I send on bikes. She is a wonderful and highly understanding individual.
Edit: how about "my other bike is [b][i]even [/b][/i]more expensive than your car"?
A non cycling friend, on hearing that I have 6 bikes.
'Well, obviously you need another one, what are you going to ride on the seventh day of the week?'
Chapeau!
On the seventh day, one has to rest - no?
"The road to Heaven may not be a road at all..."
That was on a T-shirt I bought in Breckenridge some years ago.
"Generally flat with an upwards gradient" - Dave the Aussie guide in Spain 5 yrs ago
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
'It never gets any easier, you just get faster' has the be the truest cycling quote I feel.
Hans Rey's 'Chocolate foot' served me very well while teaching my step son to ride proper as well as something that rings in my mind often even now, a true classic from a true legend.
["Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Albert Einstein]
Surprisingly, regardless how clever Albert Einstein was that he never mastered the track stand!
Pinterest is pretty good for slogans. Just look for Pinterest mountain biking. For some reason the slogany pics seem to end up near the bottoms of users' pin pages.
(Quite good for, er, [i]glamour[/i] pictures as well without upsetting the internet Police)
Someone on here once, when much younger, described STW as 'like being stuck in a badly run bike shop with a load of angry middle aged men'.
"The hand is only as good as the mind telling it what to do" I still remember that from reading it in a 90's bike brochure for either Klein or Gary Fisher. Either way that's a quote from a Gary.
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Not really MTB, but bikes is bikes.
Just ride the f'king thing!
Anybody who thinks wood isn't magnetic, hasn't ridden a bike in the forest.
On the seventh day, one has to rest - no?
Recovery ride 😉
Not MTB, but
"Shut up legs"
Or "foot out flat out"
ride it like you stole it.
Pain cave.
Last hill lads!
It's not a climb, its updulating
"Speed is your friend"
Usually helpfully shouted at you after every off.
or one from my son " This is a flat Hill" while going up gently for many a mile.
I love the smell of brake pads in the morning
