Leeds Cycling Action Group - Campaigns for cyclists in and around the City of Leeds. Features mountain bike training, club rides, charity rides and sponsorship, and contacts.
Seacroft Wheelers - A traditional cycling club for people of all ages and abilities, founded in Leeds in 1975. Information on membership, history, club runs, race results, social events, and activities to encourage youth participation.
Bob Jackson Racing Team - Information about a racing cycle club based in Bramley, its activities, membership and organisation. Contact details.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Cycling He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Cycling
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Cycling "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Cycling
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Cycling I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Cycling
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Cycling "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Cycling
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cycling Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Cycling
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Cycling "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Cycling
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Cycling "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Cycling
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cycling "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cycling
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Cycling There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Cycling
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Cycling Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Cycling
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Cycling I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Cycling
