PDA

View Full Version : Words of wisdom in 58 characters or less

ahumblecycler
10-20-2008, 02:33 PM
I am going to purchase an iTouch. When purchased online, I have the option of free engraving. The engraving equates to two lines with a max of 28 characters per line.

I like the engraving to reflect cycling and I am calling upon the sages (and others) to share their words of wisdom :bike: :beer:
Ozz
10-20-2008, 02:35 PM
Name
Phone
"Hang up and ride!"
johnnymossville
10-20-2008, 02:45 PM
"I thought of that while riding my bike."

-- Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity

or,...

"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore."

-- Eddy Merckx

too long? probably, but I like these. :)
Blue Jays
10-20-2008, 02:46 PM
"Rock hard, ride free!"
BumbleBeeDave
10-20-2008, 02:55 PM
If you brake
you lose

--Mario Cipollini


Open your
suitcase of courage

--Phil Liggett
dauwhe
10-20-2008, 02:57 PM
Find a random post by fixed. Use it verbatim.

Dave
Ti Designs
10-20-2008, 03:06 PM
Put me back on my bike.

The last words spoken by Thom Simpson on Mt Vontoux before he died. Drug testing wasn't invented yet, so he was a national hero.
93legendti
10-20-2008, 03:06 PM
Ride lots - Eddie Merckx

...walking is under-rated...do it...and walk alone...it's for your headmo atmo.
dogdriver
10-20-2008, 03:10 PM
"Pedal, Dammit!"

With apologies to Niner bikes, Chris
SoCalSteve
10-20-2008, 03:13 PM
I ride my bike to ride my bike...

Isnt that Buddism or Zen or Tao or something???

Just sayin'

Steve
dancinkozmo
10-20-2008, 03:23 PM
"I'm the master of low expectations."

Geo. W. Bush aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
z. beeblebrox
10-20-2008, 03:35 PM
how about:
28 x 2 = 56
cadence90
10-20-2008, 03:45 PM
"I'm on my iTouch 6 hours a day. What are you on?"


"...well, here I go; are you coming or not? And the answer is: NOT!"
KJMUNC
10-20-2008, 04:41 PM
"Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades" -- Merckx

"It never gets easier, you just go faster" -- Lemond

"Ride lots" -- Merckx
sloji
10-20-2008, 04:43 PM
Philosophy is about order, natural order, and humor and if you can coincidentally combine them all in one pedal stroke you would arrive at one simple conclusion;

"Bikes, beer, and broads."
avalonracing
10-20-2008, 05:06 PM
Keep the shiny side up.

All BeeGees All The Time! -Or- If you stole this please don't make fun of my music.

Eff Trek!

If found please return to...
spiderman
10-20-2008, 05:12 PM
what is 6 times 7...?

don't panic

mostly harmless

so long and thanks for all the fish

to learn how to fly, forget to hit the ground...
SoCalSteve
10-20-2008, 06:06 PM
Oh, I have another one:

Its just a hill, get over it!
sloji
10-20-2008, 06:27 PM
a turn of the crank
is all that you need to start
a revolution

http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/etc/haiku/BRhaiku.html
ahumblecycler
10-20-2008, 07:59 PM
All good suggestions except the GWB (just not a fan of his).

Another idea:
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42

or a quote from my favoriate author of all time, Terry Pratchett. Maybe something Good Omens or from Rincewind ... I will have to look through my books. I wonder if they ever talked about cycling ...
rounder
10-20-2008, 08:41 PM
Find a random post by fixed. Use it verbatim.

Dave


wish i could remember...ride hard and fast or cool and slow...this aint no practice...this is it.

fixed is great...wish he still hung here.
Auk
10-20-2008, 10:24 PM
Don't eat the yellow snow.
thinpin
10-21-2008, 04:27 AM
Old Irish saying maybe.....
"When you see a donkey, ride it"
bnewt07
10-21-2008, 08:37 AM
two wheels good, four wheels bad (apologies to George Orwell)
dancinkozmo
10-21-2008, 10:16 AM
[QUOTE=ahumblecycler]All good suggestions except the GWB (just not a fan of his).

How about this one then...Ive found it very inspirational and insightful:

"Fool me once...shame on..uh...shame on you...fool me...You cant get fooled again."

-GWB
toaster
10-21-2008, 10:48 AM
The bicycle is Mankind's greatest invention.

Or something to that effect.
markie
10-21-2008, 11:58 AM
I attended a minor English public school. We had a school reverend and weekly one hour religous education classes. They rarely revolved around religion and mostly were quite odd. One day after looking out of the window for five minutes the reverend turn around and said,

"Never bugger your wife".
Tom
10-21-2008, 12:18 PM
Twenty eight plus twenty
eight equals fifty six.

Wise enough? Six characters left over.
little.man
10-21-2008, 01:24 PM
This is one that I seem to be trying real hard to live up to this year.

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming WOO HOO - WHAT A RIDE!"

- Cattle Rancher's wife, quoted in Keepers of the Range, A Story of Arizona Cattle Growers by Adele Conover