What is your cycling motto?

[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:

[lordofthemark]

@Sunyata 156677 wrote:

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.

The full Hillel quote (unless there is another source?) could be applied to behavior on the roads, at red lights, etc. Or to bike advocacy.

Im ain ani li, mi li? V’chesheani latzmi, ma ani? V’lo achshav, aimatai?

If I will not be for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

[vvill]

Bikes
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[Crickey7]

The lyrics to “Defying Gravity” from “Wicked”.

[Steve O]

@Sunyata 156677 wrote:

“If not now, when? If not you, who?“

You might want to be careful about having this motto in mind if someone approaches you in a bar.

[cvcalhoun]

@Steve O 156699 wrote:

You might want to be careful about having this motto in mind if someone approaches you in a bar.

I suppose it depends on your motivation for being in that bar in the first place. Not that I would know anything about this, of course.

[Sunyata]

@Steve O 156699 wrote:

You might want to be careful about having this motto in mind if someone approaches you in a bar.

I will keep that in mind at Caboose tonight… :p

(By the way, I totally snort-laughed at this!)

[Birru]

@Judd 156679 wrote:

Mine is this:

https://youtu.be/7zwSNftW4Cg

Fun fact: In the 8th grade our humor/creative writing class had to watch Kentucky Fried Movie as part of the lesson on parody. Obviously certain bits had to be skipped. But our teacher was clumsy with the remote and managed to fast forward directly into Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.

[chuxtr]

@Sunyata 156677 wrote:

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.

@Steve O 156699 wrote:

You might want to be careful about having this motto in mind if someone approaches you in a bar.

@Sunyata 156724 wrote:

I will keep that in mind at Caboose tonight… :p

(By the way, I totally snort-laughed at this!)

Expect to be approached a lot at BAFS HH!

[anomad]

When I was racing my motto was “start slow and taper off”.

Since my racing days are long gone… its not a joke anymore. More like words to live by.

[cvcalhoun]

@anomad 156731 wrote:

When I was racing my motto was “start slow and taper off”.

Since my racing days are long gone… its not a joke anymore. More like words to live by.

That’s always been my motto. When I was in school, not only was I chosen last for every team, but the guy chosen just before me was unable to walk very well due to polio. (True story!) One of the things I like about biking is that I don’t feel obligated to try for speed, just for getting there in the end.

[anomad]

@cvcalhoun 156737 wrote:

That’s always been my motto. When I was in school, not only was I chosen last for every team, but the guy chosen just before me was unable to walk very well due to polio. (True story!) One of the things I like about biking is that I don’t feel obligated to try for speed, just for getting there in the end.

That’s hilarious. Me too! I was always dead last, there was another guy who had a disability (I don’t know what it was?). But he couldn’t walk normally and would still get picked before me. Rightfully so, I was pathetic at sports. I found out about running and swimming at about age 16, biking seriously came a couple years later. Started doing triathlons and never looked back! Looking back its because I was still growing, gangly and uncoordinated. I grew so much in my freshman year of college I had to raise my saddle height.

[rcannon100]

Ice Cream!

[Drewdane]

“I wonder if I left the stove on I hope I can make this light LOOK A SQUIRREL why don’t more people call their passes dammit random snatches of half-remembered songs I wonder whose turn it is to fold laundry tonight ARGH BRIGHT LIGHTS BLINDING ME I wonder if I pulled anything out of the freezer to cook tonight etc. etc. etc.”

[dkel]

“You’ll regret it if you drive instead.”

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