bicycles

     

The bicycle, cycle or bike, is a peal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.

Trivia about bicycles

  • By '97 they had air-filled rubber tires, coaster brakes & adjustable handlebars
  • Before spandex, many women wore full bloomers called rationals while riding these 2-wheelers in the 1890s
  • Boneshakers, Velocipedes, & Schwinns abound in a museum honoring this mode of transport
  • Germans like to watch 2 guys ride these around & around a track for 6 days
  • Seattle started a national trend in 1987 by putting patrol cops on these vehicles
  • There are over 300 million of these vehicles on the road in China
  • Some 1969 Huffys, a brand of these, featured banana seats
  • In the Olympics these vehicles race on oval tracks called velodromes
  • "American Flyers"
  • In a sketch that takes place in a world of Supermen, a man who fixes these is treated like a hero
  • Cannondale is custom-fitting these vehicles to riders at $1,499 each
  • The "safety" version of this transport was the first to have wheels of equal size, unlike the penny-farthing
  • To get around Amsterdam you can rent one of these at the Centraal Station for about 7 guilders a day
  • Bruges is the starting point for one of Belgium's premier sporting events, a 164-mile race of these
  • A series of Bulgarian stamps featuring types of these had one with a penny-farthing on it
  • In Beijing nearly everyone commutes to work on these vehicles