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  • On yer bike!

    -Anonymous
      Catchphrase derived from Norman Tebbit's Conservative Party conference speech.

  • I'm on my bike.

    - Lewis Addison Armistead
    When, during a furore about drug-taking by professional cyclists, he was asked:'What are you on?'. Quoted in Graeme Fife Tour de Francethe History, the Legend, the Riders (2000).

  • Put me back on my bike.

    -Tom Simpson
      Last words.

  • He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found it.

    - Norman (Beresford) Tebbit, Baron Tebbit
      Speaking of his father after criticism of high unemployment under the Conservative Government, party conference,15 Oct.

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