For many, Bike rides are more exciting than riding sports cars or jet plane travel as they give you a sense of freedom and control over your life. It is excellent to cycle every day. For a beginner, about 30 minutes of cycling is good, or perhaps trying to cycle five miles daily.

It’s also a sport that gives anyone who takes to two wheels an enormous sense of freedom. Leaving the stresses of daily life and pedaling away without a care, whether in your local lanes or high mountains miles from civilization. There’s little that can beat the beautiful simplicity of a bike ride.

We’re lucky to live in a time when cycling is quickly rising in popularity. Where there is a place for everyone in the sport, from the professionals pushing the limits of their bodies to those of us commuting by bike, the freedom of two wheels keeps us going back.

Whether a cycling newbie or an experienced rider, cycling offers many different mental and physical health benefits. Need a little inspiration to fuel your ride or help you find the motivation to crush your two-wheeled goals? In this post, I’ve rounded up the best biking and cycling quotes from professional cyclists and everyday riders who enjoy the freedom and simplicity of bicycles.

200 Cycling Quotes

Top 10 Cycling Quotes

“Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It’s good for the waistline and it’s good for the wallet.” – Phil Keoghan

“Nothing compares to getting your heart rate up to 170-something, riding hard for an hour-twenty, getting off and not hurting, as opposed to 24 minutes of running, at the end of which I hurt.” – George Bush

“Riding a bike is everything to a cyclist. The friendship and camaraderie you have with other cyclists… to a cyclist, it was the be-all and end-all of your life.” – Tommy Godwin

“The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.” – Mario Cipollini

“She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.” – Susan B. Anthony

“Rolling into the best days of summer.”

“My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.” – Peter Golkin

“Maybe, deep down, cyclists know that hills, and the temporary pain and struggle they involve, are a fantastic metaphor for life. It’s shit when you’re struggling. But the pain will end. It always does. There’s always a summit. You’ve just got to keep going.” – One Man and His Bike

“Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people.” – Chip Brown

“My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home to my office and back, but I suppose I am addicted to cycling.” – Jon Snow

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“When your legs scream stop and your lungs are bursting, that’s when it starts. That’s the hurt locker. Winners love it there.” – Chris McCormack

“No, your legs aren’t that tired. Yes, you can breathe. Keep going.”

“The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.” – Ann Strong

“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.” – John Howard

“The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.” – Susan B. Anthony

“Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it, but the world at large.” – Udo Simonis

“The bicycle saves my life every day. If you’ve ever experienced a moment of awe or freedom on a bicycle; if you’ve ever taken flight from sadness to the rhythm of two spinning wheels, or felt the resurgence of hope pedalling to the top of a hill with the dew of effort on your forehead; if you’ve ever wondered, swooping down bird-like down a long hill, if the world was standing still; if you have ever, just once, sat on a bicycle with a singing heart and felt like an ordinary human touching the gods, then we share something fundamental. We know it’s all about the bike.” – Robert Penn

“Ride as much or as little or as long or as short as you feel, but ride!” – Eddy Merckx

“Ride a bike. Ride a bike. Ride a bike.” – Cycling Quote by Fausto Coppi

“Now I walk everywhere I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.” – Della Reese

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” – John F Kennedy

“The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remain pure in heart.” – Iris Murdoch

“After a long day on my bicycle, I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified. I feel that I have established contact with my environment and that I am at peace.” – Paul de Vivie

“A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.” – Naomi Shihab Nye

“A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk.” – Simon Peat

“Riding a bicycle is the closest you can get to flying.” – Robin Williams

“I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment… a job.” – Bernard Hinault

“A bicycle is the finest mode of transport known to man.” – Adam Hart-Davis

“A bad attitude is like a flat tire… you can’t go anywhere until you change it.”

““When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work 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.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is nothing, absolutely nothing, quite so worthwhile as simply messing about on bicycles.” – Tom Kunich

“The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.”

“Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.” – Helen Keller

“Never use your face as a brake pad.” – Jake Watson

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“You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you’re having a good day.” – Daniel Behrman

“You have no such accurate remembrance of a country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” – Ernest Hemingway

“You either love spinning the pedals and watching scenery whiz by, or you don’t. And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.” – Keith Mills

“When I go biking I am mentally far, far away from civilisation. The world is breaking someone else’s heart.” – Diane Ackerman

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” – Emo Philips

“The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: it does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.” – J.B. Jackson

“The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it.” – Doug Bradbury

“Summer is feeling the wind blow through your hair.” -“This energetic bike ride is sponsored by my coffee.”

“Sometimes this is all you need!”

“Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.” – José Antonio Viera-Gallo

“Smash your T.V. Go Ride a Bike”

“Think of bicycles as ridable art that can just about save the world.” – Grant Petersen

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” – Helen Keller

“To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.” – Major Taylor

“To me, it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world” – Mark Cavendish

“To bike, or not to bike: that is not a question.”

“Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers—those people ride a bike.” – Wolfgang Sachs

“Smile more. Ride a bike.”

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus, you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” – Ernest Hemingway

“It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic gold medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you’re missing the essence of the sport.” – Scott Martin

“In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.” – Jacques Torres

“I don’t believe in Peter Pan Frankenstein or Superman All I wanna do is Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike”

“As long as I breathe, I attack.” – Bernard Hinault

“Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.” – Gary Fisher

“And if you love it, not much can sour you on the idea of riding your bike.” – Keith Mills

“Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.”

“Biking my way through the world.”

“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Jerry Dunn

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” – H .G. Wells

“If I can bicycle, I bicycle.” – David Attenborough

“Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love.” – Johan Museeuw

“Bike riding is a beautiful thing. Peaceful and serene, flowing and artistic, freeing and blissful, pedaling a bike over hill and dale is ethereal.” – Ted King

“Bicycling is life with the volume turned up!”

Happiness Cycling Quotes

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“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a bike and that’s pretty close!”

“The bike will transform anyone who is willing to let it happen.” – Ina-Yoko Teutenberg

“Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!” – Mehmet Murat İldan

“As a kid, I had a dream – I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.” – John Lennon

“Wheel, kindly light, along life’s cycle path, wheel thou on me! The road is round, I have discerned thy wrath, But wheel me on!” – Christian hymn

“What’s with these recumbent bicycles? Listen, buddy, if you wanna take a nap, lie down. If you wanna ride a bike, buy a fucking bicycle.” – George Carlin

“Turn it off! Ride your bike!”

“Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever.” – Hugh Pearman

“The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realisation that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.” – Sloan Wilson

“The finest mode of transport known to man.” – Adam Hart Davis

“The cyclist is a man half made of flesh and half of steel that only our century of science and iron could have spawned.” – Louis Baudry de Saunier

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

“Pain is still the friend that always tells me the truth.” – Chris Froome

“One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying.” – Greg Lemond

“One of the most important days of my life, was when I learned to ride a bicycle.” – Michael Palin

“of the Best Cycling Quotes to Get You Riding.”

“My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move through the crowd.” – John Pomfret

“When in doubt. Pedal it out.”

“Life’s a climb, but the view is great.”

“There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.” – David Byrne

“My biggest fear is not crashing on a bike… It’s sitting in a chair at 90 and saying, ‘I wish I had done more.” – Graeme Obree

“Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.” – James E. Starrs

“I’ll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood.” – Susan B. Anthony

“I worry about kids today not having time to build a treehouse or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.” – John Lasseter

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.” – Albert Einstein

Morning Cycling Quotes

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“Gliding down the bike path on a Saturday morning, you whip by somebody peddling in the opposite direction and give each other a nod. For a moment it’s like“Hey, we’re both doing the same thing. Let’s be friends for a second.” – Neil Pasricha

“Commuting by bicycle is an absolutely essential part of my day. It’s mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.” – James L. Jones

“The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.” – Energy and Equity

“The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.” – William Saroyan

“Nature loves bicycle because no harm to nature comes from the bicycle!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass: it’s about learning how to ride in the rain!”

“Your cycling goals should be out of reach but never out of sight.” – Felicity Luckey

“Your bike is a discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn’t matter where you are when you’re on the saddle, you’re taken away.” – Doug Donaldson

“Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the human race.” – H.G. Wells

“When you’re turning the crankset, you’re riding the bike. When you’re coasting, you’re just along for the ride.” – Ned Overend

“You don’t know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.” – Laura Trott

“I think at the end of the day, I love the sport. I love riding my bike. I love tracking the progress and trying to be better at it. I think it makes me a better person and helps me grow in a lot of ways.” – Kate Courtney

“I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.” – Michelle Pfeiffer

“I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” – Mark Cavendish

“I don’t have a bucket list but my bikeit list is a mile long.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.” – Claude Pepper

“Don’t buy upgrades; ride up grades!” – Eddy Merckx

“It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.” – Heinz Stücke

“If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don’t go for it, you definitely won’t win.” – Jens Voigt

“In Mendrisio I felt it; the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It’s a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of emotions. It can evoke the senses and raise the spirits of people who watch.” – Cadel Evans

“If your day job keeps you from riding as much as you’d like, you aren’t as fast as you think you are.” – Knolly Bikes

“If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.” – Carl Sagan

“I’m in control, liberated and free, when I’m on my bike.” – Erin O’Connor

“Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.” – H.G. Wells

“If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.” – Lance Armstrong

“Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.” – Eddy Merckx

“Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.” – Jean de Gribaldy

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“You can’t be sad while riding a bicycle.”

“You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you’re glad to be there.” – Richard Virenque

“You are one ride away from a good mood.” – Sarah Bentley

“You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.” – Alan Bennett

“My legs and a silly something in me cry out for knocking the milestones down one by one and stopping at nothing. For year I have been telling myself that it’s not the mile in the life that count, but the life in the miles. But still this silly restlessness hurries me on.” – The Ride to Chandigarh

“My fear isn’t crashing this bike at 85 miles per hour and losing my skin. It is sitting in my chair at 90 and thinking, ‘I wish I’d done more.’” – Graeme Obree

“My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one. I’d like to ride my bike all day long but I’ve got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.” – Bill Walton

“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“When it’s hurting you, that’s when you can make a difference.” – Eddy Merckx

“Young riders pick a destination and go… Old riders pick a direction and go.”

“When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you’re not riding hard.” – George Bush

“I have no driver’s license, so I ride a bicycle beside the Han River. That’s what I really love because no one gives a damn about me for that moment. I feel so free.” – RM

“I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying” – Greg LeMond

“I feel that I am entitled to my share of light-heartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one’s self simply, like a boy.” – Leo Tolstoy

“I don’t ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days.”

“I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his 70s and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.”

“[The bicycle] is no longer a beast of steel… no, it is a friend… It is a faithful and powerful ally against one’s worst enemies. It is stronger than anxiety, stronger than sadness. It has all the power of hope.” – Maurice Leblanc

“To me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike, I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” – Mark Cavendish

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

“I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.” – Miguel Indurain

“After a long day on my bicycle, I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified. I feel that I have established contact with my environment and that I am at peace.” – Paul de Vivie

“A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.” – Naomi Shihab Nye

“Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment.” – Jeremy Corbyn

“The race is won by the rider who can suffer the most.” – Eddy Merckx

“Have you ever pushed yourself to your limit? Then how do you know that you have one?”

“Good morale in cycling comes from good legs.” – Sean Yates

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.” – Desmond Tutu

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips

“Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. The make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.”

“I may not be the strongest, I may not be the fastest, but I’ll be damned if I’m not trying my hardest!”

“I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.” – William Saroyan

“I just need to ride my bike.”

“Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life’s purpose – the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.” – Gino Bartali

“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” – Christopher Morley

“You don’t stop riding because you get old. You get old because you stop riding.”

“There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle!” – Mehmet Murat ildan Contemporary Turkish playwright

“Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!” – Jack London

“Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.” – Kristin Armstrong

“Don’t ride so late into the night that you sleep through the sunrise.”

“Bicycle is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.” – Louis J. Helle Jnr

“It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.” – Anonymous

“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” – Greg LeMond

“A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke.” – Scott Stoll

“Life may not be about your bike, but it sure can help you get through it.” – Hallman

Inspirational Cycling Quotes

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“When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax.” – George W. Bush

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin on the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

“When my legs hurt, I say: ‘Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!’” – Jens Voigt

“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” – Charles M. Schulz

“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.” – Elizabeth West

“You can’t get good by staying home. If you want to get fast, you have to go where the fast guys are.” – Steve Larsen

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.” – Mark Twain

“Four wheels move the body, Two wheels move the soul.”

“For those who race, there’s no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What’s around the next corner? Who cares? You’re flyin’!” – Cadel Evans

“Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“Evil Names For Your Bicycle!”

“Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity” – Lord Charles Beresford

“The slower you go the more likely it is you’ll crash.” – Julie Furtado

“The secret weapon in the fight against foreign oil is rusting in your garage”

“Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” – Mark Twain

“It’s the first machine we master as children and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over.” – Colman Mc Cartly

“Death may have no master, but the bicycle is, most emphatically, not its slave.” – James E Starts

“Cyclists see considerable more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to.” – Dr. K. K. Doty

“I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.” – David Millar

“Beyond pain there is a whole universe of more pain.” – Jens Voigt

“Belief in yourself and your cycling goals is the ignition switch that gets you off the sofa and onto your bike.” – Felicity Luckey

“Bicycles have no walls.” – Paul Cornish

“I’m doing this for me.”

“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.” – Bob Weir

“If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles.” – Carl Sagan

“If it is important to you, you ail find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym.” – Bill Nye

“Bicycles may change, but cycling is timeless.” – Zapata Espinoza

“Cyclers see considerable more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, well applied, will cure most ills this flesh is heir to.” – Dr. K. K. Doty

“A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness.” – James E. Starrs

“I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.” – Stephen Roche

“After a long day on my bicycle, I feel refreshed, cleansed, purified. I feel that I have established contact with my environment and that I am at peace.” – Paul de Vivie

“A raggedy ride beats a dressed up walk.” – Simon Peat

“Cycling has encountered more enemies than any other form of exercise.” – 19th-century author Louis Baudry de Saunier

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