Multi-speed bicycles allow gear selection to suit the circumstances: a cyclist could use a high gear when cycling downhill, a medium gear when cycling on a flat road, and a low gear when cycling uphill.

Mudguards, or fenders, protect the cyclist and moving parts from spray when riding through wet areas and chainguards protect clothes from oil on the chain while preventing clothing from being caught between the chain and crankset teeth.

Toe-clips and toestraps and clipless pedals help keep the foot locked in the proper position on the pedals, and enable the cyclist to pull as well as push the pedals — although not without their hazards, e. g. may lock foot in when needed to prevent a fall.

Despite the risk factors associated with bicycling, cyclist have a lower overall mortality rate when compared to other groups.

Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a ' stayer ,' recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot.

The mountain achieved worldwide notoriety when it claimed the life of British cyclist Tom Simpson, who died here on July 13, 1967 from heat exhaustion caused by a combination of factors including dehydration ( caused by lack of fluid intake and diarrhea ), amphetamines, and alcohol, although there is still speculation as to the exact cause of his death.

For example, when cyclist Thomas Stevens rode around the world in the 1880s, he reported only one significant mechanical problem in over 20, 000 km, caused when the local military confiscated his bicycle and damaged the front wheel.

In February 1963, O ' Reilly was involved in an accident between Urlingford and Johnstown, when his car struck a cyclist, who was injured.

In spite of the fact that Oldfield had still never driven an automobile, he and fellow racing cyclist Tom Cooper purchased both test vehicles when Ford offered to sell them for $ 800.

Then, when racing with the Sporting Clube de Portugal cycling team in São Paulo, Agostinho-a rider " of average height but with the build of a rhinoceros ", according to the historian Pierre Chany-left Jean de Gribaldy in awe of him, a team manager and former cyclist.

108 is the number that the Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt wore when he crashed fatally in the Giro d ' Italia on May 9, 2011.

The location was also used in the 2011 Tour de France when Stage 18 finished at the summit of the nearby Col du Galibier, Luxembourg climbing specialist Andy Schleck won the stage with a long solo breakaway from the finish and finished the Tour second overall, losing to Australian cyclist, Cadel Evans.

The parking of tour buses along the street caused controversy in September 2008 when a young cyclist was killed by a bus as it turned out of a parking spot.

These articles can be found in the various subcategories, in particular all biographies that mention that the person is a cyclist should be found in one of the subcategories of Cyclists by nationality and, when appropriate, one of the discipline oriented subcategories.

A study from March 2007, first published in Accident Analysis & Prevention as reported in Scientific American reported that drivers drove an average of 8. 5 cm closer, and came within 1 meter 23 % more often, when a cyclist was wearing a helmet.

When first riding a fixed gear, a cyclist used to a freewheel may try to freewheel, or coast, particularly when approaching corners or obstacles.

Ormaetxea was a passenger in an Audi A3 driven by fellow cyclist Joseba Albizu of team Euskaltel-Euskadi when the car overturned after leaving the road near the town of Deba at approximately 6: 40 am.

But even when traveling along a long block with a wide outside lane and without any driveway or alley junctions, as soon as the cyclist is within 100 – 200 feet of the end of the block, the cyclist is " approaching a place where a right turn is authorized " and he or she is no longer obligated to ride " as close as practicable to the right ".

However, since CVC 21202 ( a ) requires a cyclist who is riding slower than other traffic when none of the exceptions apply to " ride as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway ", under those conditions single-file riding is arguably implied.

Evgeni Berzin (; born 6 June 1970 in Vyborg, Russia ) is a Russian cyclist whose best year was 1994, when he won the Giro d ' Italia and Liège – Bastogne – Liège.

The writer Tim Hilton said: " Bartali was essentially an Italian cyclist, a champion who rode within sight of his own people, and was uneasy when the Tour de France travelled north of Paris.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

The horses were only several lengths away when he fired.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.

He issued his Emancipation Proclamation only when he felt that necessity left him no other way to save the Union.

Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.

This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

`` The place had no sink or washbasin, only a bathtub '', his mother discovered when she visited him.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

The bills were principally for hospitalization and doctors' fees during the last years of his life, and when he died he owed in the main only current doctor's bills.

In my experience the assurance of forgiveness comes only when I have confessed to the wronged one and have made as full reparation as I can devise.