In his booklet “Road Vogue” on bicycling safely, Wayne Pein quotes Sir Arthur Conan Doyal from an article published in Scientific America in 1896. Now, when you mix the author of Sherlock Holmes with science and cycling, I get all happy. The quote itself is worth repeating here:

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, whenwork becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in an 1896 article for Scientific America.