Quote of the Day.

"The problem today is how to be persuasive when we ask our kids to struggle. This is the key to everything. Cycling isn't a sport like others, it's not a game: it's sacrifice, sweat and blood. With the bike you can find treasure, but to stimulate a child to look for it is more and more difficult. How do you get them to understand the value of labor?"

"Because today we live by playing, even as adults. Playing with mobile phones, sending millions of useless messages, we play games on the computer, in front of the television and on the internet. Football is a game that pulls well in a society like this. Most other sports are games. Cycling is something profoundly different: It is a way of life."

   Alfredo Martini, Interviewed in Cycling Pro, May 2010

Bing

I'm sure Microsoft is trying to rescind this vanity plate

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I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
  - Ellen DeGeneres

[I would see her live in a heartbeat]

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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
  - Edith Wharton

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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
  - Frank Tibolt

D.C. don't need cars!

Uh-oh

Maybe the trendy side of bike culture (as opposed to the spandex side) had finally jumped the shark after seeing it incorporated into the displays at the Gap. Yes, you heard correctly, the Gap. Ah well, maybe more bikes will get bought after you get your khakis.