A Cheap Bicycle Is Better Than A Dead Horse.
Quickly to bike and quickly to spin … Makes a man tired, perspiring and thin.
Never run over a magistrate; the pleasure is not worth the cost.
A bike between the legs is worth two in the store.
A wise man feareth and departeth crowded streets, but the fool rideth and is confident [It’s funeth to add an “eth” to the end of words].
A stone goes before a fall.
Mount in haste and dust you will taste.
The fool who rides without a brake … Is apt his collar-bone to shake
Wise men make bicycles, and fools fall off them.
If wishes were bicycles beggars would scorch.
He who always rides by himself has his bicycle used by a fool.
Those who ride a bike of the same make … Call all other kinds a fake.
There is but one good bicycle, and every man thinks he hath it.
Experience is the best spoke in your wheel.
A yell is as good as a nod to a deaf bicyclist.
A bad rider always finds fault with his bicycle.
The man who tests his bicycle by riding on the curbstone will shortly have no bicycle to test.
A seat unsound soon finds the ground.
If at first you don’t succeed, fall, fall again.
A man without a bicycle is a bow without an arrow.
He that rides fast will not ride long.
It is better to ride alone on a “boneshaker” than with a bawling woman on a tandem.
One man can set a beginner on a bicycle but ten can’t keep her there.
It is the glory of women to conceal their ankles; but the honor of men is to display their legs.