When I’m not on the ice, I do interval work on the bike or the elliptical, trying to mimic a four-minute routine. But it doesn’t come close.
I feel like it’s the most boring thing, sitting on the treadmill or on a bike. It just explodes my mind!
As soon as I could ride a bike… I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore. It’s where I first began to develop a fascination with machines and scientific principles.
Bike lanes are the coolest. My favorite past time is flipping off cars from my bicycle. Just kidding – I’m more of a silent resentment kind of girl.
When the flowers start blooming, I like to ride my bike.
If I’m riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven’t had a new mental adventure since high school. So that’s what I like about books on tape, so my mind can’t wander anywhere.
I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.
I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It’s my release.
I try to live my life free of regrets, but I do have one style regret that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Mum used to dress my brother and me in bright neon bike pants and big baggy t-shirts that were so long you could barely see our bike pants.
I’m not the kind that could lead the millionaire lifestyle. I’ve got a truck, and I’ve got my bike. I’ve got a lovely Labrador and two kitty-cats. I live very modestly.
The only thing I keep from the races I’ve won are the handle bar grips from the bike, the rubber bits.
I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.
The most common way to crash coming out of a corner is to highside – which is where you accelerate out of the corner, and the rear loses grip, then suddenly finds grip and chucks you off the bike.
When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I’d jump any ramp, I’d jump over people, I’d jump over things – always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.
The idea for the ‘Speed’ series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.
I don’t know, my parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it.
The only thing that I can do – and the only thing that I’ve always done – is to ride my bike fast and get my head down and control the things I can control.
As for environmentalism, I’m only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it’s hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It’s about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we’re educated.
I got some really expensive helmets as I’ am passionate about bike riding.
I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back and forth on the subway – that’s where I get my best writing done.
I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.
We have our own ocean, we’ve got a great bike trail – I love riding all the way to the turnaround at Hollywood Beach.
Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or throw on two jumpers and just sweat, it’s good to get up, get the body active, put on your headphones, and just pedal away.
I made a comment saying that it was ‘mad’ that I’m getting a knighthood for riding a bike but I meant mad as in unbelievable.
Cycling is a sport of the people. How many people in the world have never been on a bike? Not many.
I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
When I’m cruising around on my bike, I feel completely free, but I share my possessions. My friends can always borrow my motorcycles. Even if they end up crashing them, it’s OK with me.
Everything that’s going on within the peloton – there’s about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it – I love the fact that it’s so epic. You crash on a bike, the first thing you do is try and get back up on it. No whinging!
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I’d be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That’s why it’s fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.
Christmas is a special time of year for everyone – I remember getting my first BMX bike when I was a kid, and it was the best present ever.
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can’t say I’ve written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
Walk to work, even if it’s four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You’d be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you’re looking for unique spots of beauty.
The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I’ve driven Harleys, and I think in ‘Savage Seven’ I drove an Indian, but – I really love Triumph.
I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around – it doesn’t matter whether I am dancing on a Friday night or on my bike getting from A to B.
There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they’re eight years old and they go, ‘Whoa, this is incredible,’ and grow up to do extreme sports. It’s the same for me with acting.
I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.
I got a bike – a fixed-gear with bright blue wheels, custom-made to my specifications. I am a San Francisco techno-hipster, so this selection was a bit of a self-caricature. But sometimes the predictable thing turns out to be the best thing, too, and you can’t let that stop you.
As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don’t have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike – if I go too slowly, I’ll fall over. Or it’s kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I’ll just die.
I’ve done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn’t have my parents footing the bill when I moved to New York. I moved here with, like, 300 bucks. I was a bike messenger. I was a waiter. I was a bartender. I worked in a consignment shop for high-end designers.
We’re always asked the same three questions. If we’re on our own we get, ‘Where’s your mate, then?’ If we’re in a car it’s, ‘Where’s your bike, then?’ And if you’re having a meal, we get, ‘You’re not cooking, then?’
At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service.
I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day.
I just love riding my bike – no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.
How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.
I would like to think I am a little bit of a man’s man and a ladies’ man. I suppose, I’m a guy’s guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies’ man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.
Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country songs as I pedal along, sing them, have lunch, have a nap, groan, moan, write a small bit more, cook dinner, feed wifey, open a bottle, or several, slump, sleep.
I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I’d just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
