A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

- Richard Ballantine

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets be…

- Richard Ballantine

Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body …

- Richard Ballantine

Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way …

- Richard Ballantine