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"I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette"

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Ryan Reynolds turns a harmless hobby into a daredevil confession, then punctures it with a punchline sharp enough to feel like self-defense. “I just love bikes” reads like the setup to a wholesome celebrity anecdote, the kind designed to make an actor seem approachable. Then he yanks the wheel: “It’s not the safest passion to have.” The line nods to the real-world vulnerability of cyclists in car-first cities, but it also plays into Reynolds’s public persona - the guy who can’t resist undercutting sincerity before it gets too earnest.

The Russian roulette comparison is deliberately disproportionate, and that’s the point. It’s gallows humor as a way of controlling the narrative: yes, biking is risky, yes, the risk is absurdly normalized, and no, he’s not going to deliver a PSA. By choosing an image associated with randomness and fatalism, he frames danger as partly external and arbitrary - the cyclist’s risk isn’t just about skill or caution, but about other people, infrastructure, and luck. The “I guess” is doing quiet work, signaling shrugging acceptance rather than righteous outrage.

Contextually, it’s celebrity banter that still slips a cultural critique through the cracks: we live in a society where a healthy, environmentally sane activity can feel like flirting with death. Reynolds sells that contradiction the way he always does - with charm, deflection, and a joke that lands because it’s uncomfortably plausible.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Reynolds, Ryan. (2026, January 16). I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-love-bikes-its-not-the-safest-passion-to-129122/

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Reynolds, Ryan. "I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-love-bikes-its-not-the-safest-passion-to-129122/.

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"I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-love-bikes-its-not-the-safest-passion-to-129122/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Ryan Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Actor from Canada.

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