“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms
of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains
pure in heart.”
—Iris Murdoch
“When man invented the bicycle, he reached the peak of his attainments.
Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of
man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man´s convenience) the more
he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once was a product
of man´s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and
of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when
man invented the bicycle.”
—Elizabeth West