London Recumbents - Specialist and unusual bikes. Includes information on lessons, trying the bikes, bikes for special needs, hiring, bike parties and the octo eight seater conference bike.
Coventry VISTA - Visually Impaired and Tandem Cycling Association. Events, rides diary, ride routes and social diary.
End 2 End with Mike and Diane - Diane Stuckey and Mike Pope (who is an above the knee amputee) are cycling from Lands End to John O'Groats to raise money for a new St Johns Ambulance in May/June 2004. Includes planned route.
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Cycling The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Cycling
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Cycling Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Cycling
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Cycling I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Cycling
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Cycling "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Cycling
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Cycling blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Cycling
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Cycling "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Cycling
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Cycling "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Cycling
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Cycling It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Cycling
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Cycling People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Cycling
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Cycling A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Cycling
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Cycling "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Cycling
