I started learning to ride a bike when I was 18.
I try and sweat every day even though I can’t always get to the gym. I do a lot of running, which is a great way to see a city, and I try to bike to work.
In the ’80s, I did two hours of cardio every day, split between running and the stationary bike. It was a trap – afterward I’d feel starving but also bulletproof, so I’d pig out. I slid into what I call exercise bulimia, when you’re running more and more miles so you can eat worse and worse food.
Sometimes it can be more tiring with the kids than on the bike but I’m absolutely loving it.
I wake up, I’ll scramble some eggs, cook some bacon, have a few pieces of toast, yogurt, smoothie, whatever it might be. I’ll then workout, whether it’s outside, inside, bike, weights, whatever I have access to, however creative I can be.
You can do yoga all day, you can run or bike or swim, but a pull-up will still be hard. It’s not that you have to be a juiced-up ‘lunk’ to do one; it’s a matter of physics.
My favourite thing is to come down to London from my home in Staffordshire in the helicopter and then get my bike out of the back and cycle into London. It’s wonderful.
In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.
I like to move around a lot – I’m a big runner, and I often get on a bike and ride from meeting to meeting.
Once, when I was driving my bike with my helmet on, two girls recognized me by just looking at my eyes.
I love being on my bike, but I don’t consider that a sport: it’s too pleasant.
Man, when I’m riding with the helmet on, I’m invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike… it gives you a chance to read ’em.
At Grudge, we just push each other. Whether it’s sparring five rounds or rolling and doing drills, I do most of my cardio at practice. As far as running outside or riding a bike? That’s not fighting, so I only do things that are going to help me in the Octagon.
Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.
Oh my god, I never want to hurt a bike. That’s the last thing I want to do, precious little bikes.
I know people have tattooed my ‘Sons of Anarchy’ photos, they’ve painted them, on their bikes. I’ve seen a few of those, sent to me through friends, where they’ve actually taken my 8×10 Tig photo and put it right on their bike.
Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.
A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you’re in a car. You’re more in the environment. It’s enjoyable. Even when It’s raining It’s still fun.
If I was Mayor of London, I would take the congestion charge off. I’d keep the bike lanes. And buses free on a Thursday.
Most of the time, I get around perfectly well on my bike and public transportation, even in spite of the Bay Area’s almost comically shambolic system.
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.
When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.
I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn’t going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?
By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn’t go very far or very fast. People thought I’d lost my mind. Even my own family thought I’d lost my mind.
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band – it’s like riding a bike.
I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can’t walk somewhere, I’ll bike or skateboard.
You know, playing football for me is just like riding a bike.
I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a cafe, and I did bike delivery, and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.
When I turned 17, I had a bike malfunction at a race, and in my head, I went, ‘You know what? I’m done. I’m going to go play drums.’ I still ride my bikes for fun, but that was the turning point.
I spend a lot of time with my family and I ride my mountain bike almost every day.
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
The great thing about the Island is you’ve got room. You can go for a bike ride. We’re 20 minutes to a beach, and you can get on the beach and go for a long walk.
I’d love to say that I’m this brave person doing this big adventure and that it’s easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, ‘What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?’
I’ll bike up the mountain, or I’ll do Pilates or spin.
L.A. can make you feel like you’ve already made it. You’re living off 40 dollars a week; it’s nice weather. You go outside on your bike; you go to the coffee shop, and everybody is doing nothing. It doesn’t leave a lot of room for ambition.
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother’s boyfriend has a bike, so we’re a bit of a biker family.
I’m a big tandem bike rider… I’ve had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.
When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn’t have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal – having lost a few good ones in New York – and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city.
I spent a couple of months just riding a bike doing my own training in the streets.
The experience of riding an electric bike is very different. Because there was no engine noise and no big vibration coming from the bike, it wasn’t as stressful.
I’m made to ride a bike, not do washing.
I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college – and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn’t overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.
You don’t know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
My big advert was for ketchup. I come home from school, cook my brother and sister their dinner, ride my bike in the garden. Remember that one? People cried at that advert. It won awards. I was 12.
You will never see me on the bike or treadmill for long periods of time; I just use them for one-minute sprints between sets.
For me, a circuit might involve a warm-up, then one minute on the treadmill or the indoor bike followed by a series of 20-second efforts with burpees, tuck jumps, press-ups and standing rows. I might repeat that 3-4 times.
I live on the Santa Monica Beach and bike up and down almost every day. I like exercise, and I like literature a lot and plays and things like that.
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I’m totally convinced they’re death machines.
In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we’re always on the bike and it’s quite difficult.
I used a bike in London and that’s it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.
Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I’d like to ride my bike all day long but I’ve got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.
Portland, Oregon won’t build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
I do have hobbies – I garden and bike, for example – but there’s nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.
I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They’ve seen me come home from so many runs and asked, ‘What’s on your skin? How did you get it?’ And I tell them, ‘It’s from exercise!’ So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, ‘Look, Mom. I’m sweating! I just worked out!’
