Said about bicycles

Man is a locomotive machine of Nature's own making, and not to be improved on by the addition of any cranks or wheels or mortal invention.
-Mechanics' Magazine editorial, 1832

The proudest triumph of mechanics will be the completion of a machine without horses or other animals to drag it.
-Monthly Magazine, November 1819

One of the most surprising feats of practical mechanics is that a carriage with but two wheels, propelled by the feet of the rider by simple crank motion, should maintain an upright position.
-Scientific American, 23 September 1868

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
- Mark Twain

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