This post may contain affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, I may earn a commission. Also, as an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.--
A lot of us need just that extra little push to get out on our bikes, and that is exactly what cycling quotes can provide!
In this post, I share 75+ of my favorite short and snappy cycling quotes. These are lines that you can literally ride around with inside your head.
They are a source of motivation and inspiration! They turn good intentions, such as wanting to ride your bike, into good actions – getting out and actually riding it!
I’ve split the quotes up into the following categories:
- Positivity and Mindful Short Cycling Quotes
- Overcoming Adversity Short Cycling Quotes
- Short Cycling Quotes About The Joy Of Bicycling
- Short Cycling Quotes About Life
- Wise Short Cycling Quotes
- Short Cycling Quotes About Freedom
- Short Cycling Quotes Of Admiration Towards Cycling And Bicycles
- Positive Mindset Short Cycling Quotes
- Quotes About Cycling Obsession
75+ Short Cycling Quotes
1. Positivity and Mindful Short Cycling Quotes
“You are one ride away from a good mood.” – Sarah Bentley
“When you ride a bike…your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax.” – George W. Bush
“There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
“After a long day on my bicycle, I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified.” — Paul de Vivie
“You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t.” — Keith Mills
“Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
“A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness.” – James E. Starrs
“And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.” – Keith Mills
“Four wheels move the body, Two wheels move the soul.” – Unknown
“A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to.” – Dr. K. K. Doty
2. Overcoming Adversity Short Cycling Quotes
“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
“If you never confront pain, you’re missing the essence of the sport” – Scott Martin
“When my legs hurt, I say: ‘shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!’” – Jens Voigt
“If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.” – Lance Armstrong
“Pain is still the friend that always tells me the truth.” – Chris Froome
“It never gets easier, you just get faster” – Greg LeMond
“The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most” – Eddy Merckx
When it’s hurting you, that’s when you can make a difference” – Eddy Merckx
“The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it” – Doug Bradbury
“Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love.” – Johan Museeuw
“Beyond pain there is a whole universe of more pain.” – Jens Voigt
“Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.” – Hunter S. Thompson
3. Short Cycling Quotes About The Joy Of Bicycling
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” – John F. Kennedy
“As long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world” – Mark Cavendish
“Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” – Eddy Merckx
“Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless.” – Zapata Espinoza
“Bike riding is…peaceful and serene, flowing and artistic, freeing and blissful, pedaling a bike over hill and dale is ethereal.” – Ted King
“Cyclists see considerably more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens.”– Dr. K.K. Doty
“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
“Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” – Eddie Merckx
“One of the most important days of my life, was when I learned to ride a bicycle.” – Michael Palin
“Nature loves bicycle because no harm to nature comes from the bicycle!” – Mehmet Murat İldan
4. Short Cycling Quotes About Life
“Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles M. Schultz
“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“The bike will transform anyone who is willing to let it happen.” – Ina-Yoko Teutenberg
“She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.” — Frances E. Willard
“I ride a bike to add life to my days” – Unknown
“Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it.” – Hallman
“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be.” – Bill Nye
“Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it, but the world at large.” – Udo Simonis
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” – H .G. Wells
“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.” – Claude Pepper
5. Wise Short Cycling Quotes
“A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke.” – Scott Stoll
“Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It’s good for the waistline and it’s good for the wallet.” – Phil Keoghan
“The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.” – Susan B. Anthony
“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.” – John Howard
“It’s the first machine we master as children and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over.” – Colman Mc Cartly
“Never use your face as a brake pad.” – Jake Watson
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass: it’s about learning how to ride in the rain!” – Unknown
6. Short Cycling Quotes About Freedom
“It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.” — Heinz Stücke
“Your bike is discovery. Your bike is freedom.” – Doug Donaldson
“Young riders pick a destination and go… Old riders pick a direction and go.” – Unknown
“Bicycles have no walls.” – Paul Cornish
7. Short Cycling Quotes Of Admiration Towards Bicycles And Cycling
“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” – William Saroyan
“Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.” — Lord Charles Beresford
“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.” — Grant Petersen
“Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever.” — Hugh Pearman
“The finest mode of transport known to man.” – Adam Hart Davis
8. Positive Mindset Cycling Quotes
“If you brake, you don’t win.” – Mario Cipollini
“Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits.” – Jerry Dunn
“You can’t get good by staying home.” – Steve Larsen
“As long as I breathe, I attack” – Bernard Hinault
“Pain is temporary. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
“You don’t know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.” – Felicity Luckey
“Belief in yourself and your cycling goals is the ignition switch that gets you off the sofa and onto your bike.” – Felicity Luckey
“Your cycling goals should be out of reach but never out of sight.” – Felicity Luckey
9. Quotes About Cycling Obsession
“I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.” – Michelle Pfeiffer
“I’d like to ride my bike all day long but I’ve got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.” – Unknown
“If your day job keeps you from riding as much as you’d like, you aren’t as fast as you think you are.” – Knolly Bikes
“If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.” – Carl Sagan