Quotes of Note - Issue 2

"On the shiny black road that mounted through the pines as he left the hotel he felt the pull in his arms and shoulders and the rounding thrust of his feet against the pedals as he climbed in the hot sun with the smell of the pines and the light breeze that came from the sea. He bent his back forward and pulled lightly against his hands and he felt the cadence that had been ragged at first as he mounted begin to smooth out."

- Ernest Hemingway, "The Garden of Eden"

This is probably the most evocative description of cycling ever written.

From the book The Quotable Cyclist by Bill Strickland