Just Ride
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"Ride as much or as little, as long or as short as you feel. But ride." - Eddy Merckx
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Your Next RideThe Hurt Locker
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"When your legs scream stop and your lungs are bursting, that's when it starts. That's the hurt locker. Winners love it in there." - Chris McCormack
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Your Next RideShut up legs!
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"When my legs hurt, I say: 'Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!" - Jens Voigt
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Your Next RideGo Where The Fast Guys Are
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"You can't get good by staying home. If you want to get fast, you have to go where the fast guys are." - Steve Larsen
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Your Next RideNothing Compares
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"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike." - John F. Kennedy
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Your Next RideSuffer the Most
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"The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most." - Eddy Merckx
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Your Next RideOne Doesn't Play at Cycling
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"Cycling isn't a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One does not play at cycling." - Jean de Gribaldy
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Your Next RideConfront Pain
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"It doesn't matter if you're sprinting for an Olympic gold medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you're missing the essence of the sport." - Scott Martin
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Your Next RideWhen It Hurts
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"When it's hurting you, that's when you can make a difference." - Eddy Merckx
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Your Next RideThe Best Rides
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"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it." - Doug Bradbury
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Your Next RideNeither Rain Nor Shine
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"To me, it doesn't matter whether it's raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I'm riding a bike I know I'm the luckiest guy in the world." - Mark Cavendish
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Your Next RideWhen You're Feeling Down
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"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking." - Arthur Conan Doyle
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Your Next RideGlad to Be There
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"You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there." - Richard Virenque
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Your Next RideThe Unknown
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"It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels." - Heinz Stucke
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Your Next RideWhen Life Imitates Art
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"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
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Your Next RideBalance
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
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Your Next RideAdd Life to Your Days
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"I don't ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days." - Unknown
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Your Next RideGive a Man a Bicycle
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"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring." - Desmond Tutu
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Your Next RideChallenge Your Limits
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"Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits." - Jerry Dunn
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Your Next RideFreedom and Fear
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"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom." - Marilyn Ferguson
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