What is your cycling motto?

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  • September 11, 2013 at 2:05 pm #914149
    MRH5028
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    What are your words to live by when on the bike? Words of inspiration and guidance both apply.

    For me:

    When commuting/on road – “Just don’t die” and “Imagine the stupidest thing a driver can do and be prepared for something worse”

    When racing/training – “It never gets easier, you just go faster.” -Greg LeMond

    I also enjoy the Niner bikes motto of “Pedal Damnit”

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  • March 11, 2017 at 5:29 pm #1067832
    lossomes
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    Every day I commute I tell myself, “this is better than metro.” When the weather is real shitty i make sure to repeat it out loud to everyone I see.

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    March 11, 2017 at 6:44 pm #1067833
    vvill
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    @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.

    I think I was the guy chosen before you, except I didn’t have polio.

    March 12, 2017 at 5:01 pm #1067869
    Anonymous
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    “don’t die don’t die don’t die don’t die”

    I remember it used to be “Yay! Sunshine!” but that when I was smarter and mostly just leisurely toodled along bike paths in nice weather, with much lower risk of crashing*, lungs exploding, freezing to death, or being run over by cars than the stupid things I do now. So, um, thanks? for the inspiration, bike family.

    *there was still the occasional crashing, to be totally honest here. In addition to also being picked last in gym class (though I had no classmates with polio to compete against) I was, accurately, voted “most clumsy” by my senior class in high school (while others were getting honors such as “most likely to succeed”, “most popular”, and “most likely to go to jail”), so that’s just to be expected.

    March 13, 2017 at 4:13 am #1067891
    kwarkentien
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    “Just keep spinning!” in the voice of Ellen DeGeneres as Dory in Finding Nemo.

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    March 13, 2017 at 8:54 am #1067897
    Fast Friendly Guy
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    Go go never slow!

    March 13, 2017 at 11:31 am #1067898
    chuxtr
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    Festina lente

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    March 13, 2017 at 2:25 pm #1067910
    Rootchopper
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    I have another:

    Wherever you bike, there you are.

    March 13, 2017 at 2:49 pm #1067913
    chuxtr
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    @Rootchopper 156929 wrote:

    I have another:

    Wherever you bike, there you are.

    Buckaroo Banzai!

    March 13, 2017 at 4:10 pm #1067919
    Zack
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    Bike may use full lane!

    Alternatively, R4-11 rocks!

    April 7, 2017 at 1:21 pm #1069251
    DanaWise
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    A friend used WSGFABR on FB yesterday and so when I had to look it up, I found this very useful thread. Lots of good mantras here! Mine is:

    Namaste Motherf*cker, or when I’m feeling more polite: Namaste, Motherf*cker.

    April 7, 2017 at 2:26 pm #1069255
    Mario20136
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    @chuxtr 156932 wrote:

    Buckaroo Banzai!

    If it’s not raining, it’s not training …

    It does not get easier, but you get faster …

    Happy trails…

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