[Closed] Mountain Biking Quotes or Slogans?

Sell my bikes? I would rather shove wasps up my ass

From a sticker pack free with MBUK about mid 90's

I always wanted a T-shirt with:

Oooh
Ah
Ooof
Aah
Ooof
Aagh
Ya Bugger
Ooof
F*ck
Ow
That was the easy part!

Written down the back

Credit to whoever coined these but my favourites

"Mountain Biking, It's not about the miles, it's about the smiles"

"They can have my mountain bike when they pry my cold, dead fingers from it"

"How much will that be?"

Keith Bontrager: "Strong, Light, Cheap - Choose Two"

88: "Marriage, Weekend Riding, Happiness - Choose Two"

[i]There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles.[/i]

Can't for the life of me remember who said it 😕

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles.

Can't for the life of me remember who said it

Not sure who said it either, but I'm pretty sure they were just stealing the line from Rat in Wind in the Willows 🙂 Who was referring to boats, rather than bicycles, of course.

LOL. T'interweb seems to credit Tom Kunich with it.

"Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." John F. Kennedy

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Albert Einstein

"No hour is wasted that is spent in the saddle." Winston Churchill (ok, so not [i]exactly[/i] about bikes...!)

"Giving up downhill to focus on XC is like giving up sex to get better at chat-up lines." Someone on STW... 😉

Marco from Ciclo Montana has a few famous one liners
It's all down except the ups
Don't know whether the kashima coat works but it looks good
It's alright till some takes an eye out
Pad up boys

[i]'Just imagine you're cuddling a fat midget'[/i]

Skills course advice from none other than the bearded genius, mr Oxley.

'I just think it's neat' OK, may be a reference to a potato but works well for cycling.

"Giving up downhill to focus on XC is like giving up sex to get better at chat-up lines." Someone on STW...

Love it.

Hard tail or six inches at the rear.

What tyres for ...?

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.
- "Taming the Bicycle" Mark Twain

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No--and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.
- "Taming the Bicycle" Mark Twain

It was on the 10th day of May--1884--that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time.
The spectacles stayed on.
- Mark Twain's Speeches

I hope than when I die, my wife sells my bikes for what they are actually worth, not what she thinks they are worth.

Lol that last one sums most of us up

Nice one matt

I hope than when I die, my wife sells my bikes for what they are actually worth, not what she thinks they are worth.

Isn't the tag line "not what I told her they cost"

"It's a traverse"
"It's a cheeky climb"
"Pain is just weakness leaving the body. And when you run out of weakness, you die."

"Huck to..." combos well. I did a brilliant huck to spine last weekend.

H.G. Wells, 'Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race'.

Cycling is the new...

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"If you get it wrong, you've got to eat it"

Which I think was Hans Rey c 1995

"Chocolate foot" also Hans Rey

my other bike is a bike

mattbee - Member
I hope than when I die, my wife sells my bikes for what they are actually worth, not what she thinks they are worth.

My wife, with her mountain bike, road bike and hack bike, has a pretty good idea of what I send on bikes. She is a wonderful and highly understanding individual.

Edit: how about "my other bike is [b][i]even [/b][/i]more expensive than your car"?

A non cycling friend, on hearing that I have 6 bikes.

'Well, obviously you need another one, what are you going to ride on the seventh day of the week?'

Chapeau!

On the seventh day, one has to rest - no?

"The road to Heaven may not be a road at all..."
That was on a T-shirt I bought in Breckenridge some years ago.

"Generally flat with an upwards gradient" - Dave the Aussie guide in Spain 5 yrs ago

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein

'It never gets any easier, you just get faster' has the be the truest cycling quote I feel.

Hans Rey's 'Chocolate foot' served me very well while teaching my step son to ride proper as well as something that rings in my mind often even now, a true classic from a true legend.

["Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Albert Einstein]

Surprisingly, regardless how clever Albert Einstein was that he never mastered the track stand!

Pinterest is pretty good for slogans. Just look for Pinterest mountain biking. For some reason the slogany pics seem to end up near the bottoms of users' pin pages.

(Quite good for, er, [i]glamour[/i] pictures as well without upsetting the internet Police)

Someone on here once, when much younger, described STW as 'like being stuck in a badly run bike shop with a load of angry middle aged men'.

"The hand is only as good as the mind telling it what to do" I still remember that from reading it in a 90's bike brochure for either Klein or Gary Fisher. Either way that's a quote from a Gary.

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Not really MTB, but bikes is bikes.

Just ride the f'king thing!

Anybody who thinks wood isn't magnetic, hasn't ridden a bike in the forest.

On the seventh day, one has to rest - no?

Recovery ride 😉

Not MTB, but
"Shut up legs"
Or "foot out flat out"

ride it like you stole it.

Pain cave.

Last hill lads!
It's not a climb, its updulating

"Speed is your friend"

Usually helpfully shouted at you after every off.

or one from my son " This is a flat Hill" while going up gently for many a mile.

I love the smell of brake pads in the morning

Elite rider on your right.....

Bikes are drugs and I'm pedalling them

'Faster & Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death' (on a Yeti T shirt I once had)
& 'Fear of a Flat Planet' (on a No Fear T shirt I had)

"I saw death so many times I started using him as a braking marker"

Flat out or f-off.

'Try cycling - it's hip and we've priced out the poor!'

From that Klunking video that was on here a couple of months ago

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Klunking is best away from the cops, cars and concrete

[stoned Califorian voice] Klunking is muddy in the winter and dusty in the summer[stoned Califorian voice]

Klunking is like downhill skiing except you don't get snow in your boots when you fall down

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Rule #6

Free the mind, and your legs will follow.

Can be heard being chanted by my good self on any gradient pointing upwards. Seems to help.

f#&k this s@%t for a game of soldiers.

"Pick a wheel size and then be a dick about it" personal fave or "just one more little hill" has to be said in a cod French accent like John Cleese's waiter in meaning of life 😀

Mash the trails hard.

All from a bike quote sight, a few of my favs, really like the Jack London 2nd one and the last, just replace road with trail!

I thought of that while riding my bicycle. Einstein in reference to the Theory of Relativity.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again! ~ Jack London Author

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a bicycle and that’s pretty close. Anon

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy. ~ Leo Tolstoy In response to criticism for learning to ride a bicycle at age 67

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.~ snoopy cartoon - Charles M. Schulz

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. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemmingway

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. ~ H.G. Wells The Wheels of Chance

"Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls" ~ Bob Weir Grateful Dead (I wish!)

As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed. ~ John Lennon

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 (trail) without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Author of Sherlock Holmes

Belugabob's qte - Anybody who thinks wood isn't magnetic, hasn't ridden a bike in the forest. - Love it.

Niner Bikes Sticker - "Pedal damnit"

Ben Cathro, on Fabien Barel...

Fabien
"After a ride I like a glass of red wine and a chick in between my legs"

Ben replies
"Eh? you like to f*** chickens!!"

On the seventh day, one has to rest - no?

I've got an old sweatshirt with "On The Seventh Day He Rode" on it. There was a company that was popular in MBUK about 20 years ago. Not Stif, but sounded like that. They had lots of good slogans.

Rox, that was it.

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It's just a hill get over it .

On the top tube of a bike in the Alps:

[i]Pain is French for bread[/i]

And otherwise:

[i]Are those... BOMBERS?![/i]

Jimmy, spotted that at the mega last year, they are signed up again for this year as a team.

Not bought a bike mag for years but one of them, MBR I think, used to have "just get out and ride" on the spine every month.

One of my own, which a friend pointed out to me. When faced with any problem in life, a drainage channel on a descent, a closed chairlift, empty wallet, lost cat, gas leak, anything... my default response is "that's fine, I'll just bunny-hop it".

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Charlie is your friend here I think.
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crash, get up, crash, get up, crash, get up, crash, stay down
act stupid. get dirty. ride bikes
I have confused my intensions with my abilities
(all from MBUK stickers)

"No britneys" on single speeds
And
"Just cos we both ride bikes doesn't mean you my mate"