The Best Songs About Bikes

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What gets stuck in your head while you ride? My brain likes to fixate on lyrics about bikes—particularly the Moldy Peaches' "I just want to ride bikes with you," and Team Dresch's "I wish I was riding bikes with you." (Apparently my subconscious needs more riding partners.)

In the interest of drumming up more bicycle-themed jams for my mental roster, I asked everyone at Bicycling to submit some of their favorite bike songs and compiled them all into the playlist below. Do you have a favorite bike song? What would you add?


Bicycle Race — Queen

Black Mags — The Cool Kids

Tour De France — Kraftwrk

Riding Bikes — Shellac

Broken Bicycles — Tom Waits

Tony's Theme — Pixies

Take On Me — Team Dresch

My White Bicycle — Tomorrow

Bikes and Bridges — Defiance, Ohio

Bike — Pink Floyd

Handlebars — Flobots

Bike — The Slambovian Circus of Dreams

Push Bike Song — The Mixtures

Nothing Came Out — The Moldy Peaches


Read the original article published on Bicycling.com.

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