Missy Giove waxes poetic

Ah yes...another installment of the soon to be famous Cool Bike Quotes, or CBQ.

I get a monthly e-mail newsletter from the Adventure Cycling Association that promotes the organization's work and inspires people to travel by bike. This month's edition carried the following quote from famous retired mountain biker Missy Giove:

Mountain biking can't be square and clean-cut 'cause it's not a square sport. It's gotta stay tribal.

Seems Missy is full of poetic cycling quotes. Here she is quoted in an article back in 1996:

I don't want cycling to become an elite sport like skiing. To me it's a soul sport, an art form. I see the world in a different light when I'm looking at it from a bicycle.

The essence of mountain biking and cycling in general boiled down into two succinct quotes.