What is your cycling motto?

[krazygl00]

@Bilsko 64132 wrote:

There will be chaos, keep pedalling.

Cool. I haven’t seen this before but it seems to be like a Desiderata of cycling.

Whenever I’m pushing myself, one of my little mantras is “BFG” which stands for “Breathe, Float, Grip”. If I let my mind wander too much my form goes bad. I’ve found these things help me feel better and ride better:
– Breathe: slow and deep instead of rapid and shallow.
– Float: keep the toes “floating” inside the shoes as opposed to pushing them down on the downstroke, which I find is the easiest way to improve spinning the legs.
– Grip: for some reason I find that having a slight positive grip on the bars rather than just letting them lay on top does wonders for a lot of other factors such as keeping the knees in and riding in a straight, smooth line. Don’t know why this is.

“Please don’t kill me”, the words I try to beam into the heads of drivers at intersections. This is probably a bad thing if you believe in all that positive energy stuff and should probably be revised to “Please let’s all live together in peace and harmony”

[PotomacCyclist]

Bike More

Also used as the name for the Baltimore bike advocacy organization: http://bikemore.net/

[culimerc]

go Fast! Take Chances!!

and oh by the way BFG stands for big F’in Gun.

also;

Pain is temporary, Chicks dig scars and glory is forever.

or

if your not bleeding you werent really trying.

[Dirt]

@bikeeveryday 63893 wrote:

I prefer the rhetorical, Swgfabr?

I just short-cutted the answer a little.

[Dirt]

“I like fast cars and fast women, that’s why they call me the cruiser” (shoulda called you the dork!)

@culimerc 64162 wrote:

Pain is temporary, Chicks dig scars and glory is forever.

I read Blitz.

[Steve O]

In my Christmas letter to my family last year (written in the 3rd person), each of us was assigned a superpower. Mine was:

“In any conversation, if a geographical reference is made, after a moment or two of thought, he will say, ‘You know, you could bike there.'”

This has become a running joke in our family, because I actually do this a lot without even trying.

(My old high school friend sent me an email after receiving our Christmas letter, which consisted of a single sentence: “We’re going to Hawaii on vacation this year.” Ouch!)

[PotomacCyclist]

Go Falco! Go Sentinels! (One of my favorite sports movies by the way. And a cool semi-fictional D.C. story too.)

[krazygl00]

I remembered another of mine while out riding this weekend: “Everyone has good form on the flats”

[rcannon100]

Back in college my Ultimate Frisbee team had a motto that I still love:

Intensity on the Mellow Road to Nowhere.

I have always liked that.

[JorgeGortex]

I think mine these days is: “…huff huff huff, erk, hi, huff huff huff jackass! huff huff huff…”

[Rootchopper]

Motto in conflict

On the one hand:

“Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles.”

On the other;

“The farther one travels, the less one knows.”

(Bet you can guess what I do for a living.)

Signed
The Happy Idiot

[huskerdont]

I didn’t even know this thread existed. What a great thing.

When hurting, Jens had “shut up, legs.” Mine is generally just “shut the f*ck up.”

When mountain biking, it’s the same as when kayaking, “be water my friend”. I’m no Bruce Lee and still suck, but it does help.

[Sunyata]

Oh! I also had no idea this thread existed. Since it has already been resurrected…

My motto when things get tough and I need to observe Rule #5 is “If not now, when? If not you, who?“

It seems to work most of the time. And it reminds me that I am the only one that is in charge of how well or how poorly I do. No one else can do this for me.

[Judd]

@huskerdont 156675 wrote:

I didn’t even know this thread existed. What a great thing.

When hurting, Jens had “shut up, legs.” Mine is generally just “shut the f*ck up.”

When mountain biking, it’s the same as when kayaking, “be water my friend”. I’m no Bruce Lee and still suck, but it does help.

Mine is this:

https://youtu.be/7zwSNftW4Cg

[drevil]

@consularrider 63770 wrote:

In the immortal words of slantz of bikejournal.com, “ride, log, repeat!”

Mine has one comma less

“Ride log, repeat!”

My alternate is this, while imagining Rob Schneider saying it:

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