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bicycles and were
These bicycles were difficult to ride due to their high seat and poor weight distribution.
These models were known as dwarf safeties, or safety bicycles, for their lower seat height and better weight distribution ( although without pneumatic tires the ride of the smaller-wheeled bicycle would be much rougher than that of the larger-wheeled variety ).
Furthermore it was considered " unladylike " for women to open their legs to mount and dismount-in more conservative times women who rode bicycles at all were vilified as immoral or immodest.
In Shanghai, where bicycles were once the dominant mode of transport, bicycle travel on a few city roads was banned temporarily in December 2003.
Early races involving boneshaker style bicycles were predictably fraught with injuries.
Recumbent bicycles were banned from bike races in 1934 after Marcel Berthet set a new hour record in his Velodyne streamliner ( 49. 992 km on November 18, 1933 ).
In 2011, MTR Corporation announced that bicycles were permitted to be taken on all MTR rail lines.
By 2007, electric bicycles were thought to make up 10 to 20 percent of all two-wheeled vehicles on the streets of many major cities.
Similarly, the first bicycles with two wheels of equal size were called " safety bicycles " because they were easier to handle than the then-dominant style that had one large wheel and one small wheel, which then became known as an " ordinary " bicycle.
On 1 October 2010 the Segway and similar one person electrical vehicles were re-classified as bicycles.
Private ownership was not allowed and the only vehicles circulating were trucks, agricultural and government vehicles, buses, motorcycles, and bicycles.
The country's roads, however, were generally narrow, poorly marked, pocked with holes, and in the early 1990s often crowded with pedestrians and people riding mules, bicycles, and horse-drawn carts.
This album was " the target of a bizarre marketing campaign, in which sixty-five naked women were perched atop bicycles rented from Halford's Cycles and sent racing around Wimbledon Stadium.
The earliest mopeds were bicycles with a helper motor in various locations, for example on top of the front wheel ; they were also called cyclemotors.
In the late 1980s Peugeot sold the North American rights to the Peugeot bicycle name to ProCycle, a Canadian company which also sold bicycles under the CCM and Velo Sport names The European rights were briefly sold to Cycleurope S. A., returning to Peugeot in the 1990s.
This system came to be known as armory practice or the American system of manufacturing, which spread throughout New England aided by skilled mechanics from the armories who were instrumental in transferring the technology to the sewing machines manufacturers and other industries such as machine tools, harvesting machines and bicycles.
The 1950s was the earliest time that audio systems were officially contemplated for bicycles.
Some of the right-of-way acquired in the 1960s for the Route 35 Freeway were transformed into a multi-use trail for bicycles and other vehicles to link the Wall Township Municipal Complext to the existing Edgar Felix Bikeway that runs from Manasquan to Allaire State Park.
Cycling champion Arthur Augustus Zimmerman resided in the town during his racing career in the 1880s and 1890s, and from 1896 – 1899 operated the Zimmerman Bicycle Co .; the company's bicycles were known as the " Zimmy.
Between 1880 and the turn of the century, Thomas Humber and his partners were making bicycles and eventually motor-cycles and cars at a large factory at the junction of what is now Queens Road and Humber Road.

bicycles and own
Other cyclists maintain their own bicycles, perhaps as part of their enjoyment of the hobby of cycling or simply for economic reasons.
Most families have their own car ; few residents ride bicycles.
Airplanes and bicycles tilt in when cornering but automobiles and trains cannot do this on their own.
Community bicycle programs and collectives facilitate community sharing of bicycles, restore found and broken bikes, and teach people how to do their own bike repairs.
On April 14, while group of at least 200 and several buses pro-Palestinian activists were riding bicycles in a silent protest ( while the legality of the action is still unclear as some news agencies state the cyclists got a permition to protest but other state no permit was given ), they were stopped by Israeli soldiers before entering into highway 90, and asked not to continue for their own safety.
In 1896 they began manufacturing and selling bicycles of their own design, the Van Cleve and St. Claire, named after their ancestors.
The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann ( 1863 – 1951 ) of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling under his own trade-name in London.
From 1889 the businessmen produced their own bicycles in Coventry, England.
Bettmann's original products were bicycles, which the company bought and then sold with its own brand name.
A bicycle sharing system, also known as bikesharing, is a service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals who do not own them.
They search Rome's largest square Piazza Vittorio, where they find stalls selling countless bicycles and parts resembling his own.
Though many riders bring their own bicycles, the participants maintain a " Zoobomb pyle ".
Many firms began to supply japanned metal to the newly established bicycle and motor vehicle industries, and some even made their own bicycles.
The users of the trail have been shown as approximately 9 % guided tour customers, 50 % independent travellers ( renting a bicycle ) and 41 % New Zealanders bringing their own bicycles.
Most of the business people own bicycles or motorbikes.
Then, in 1906, the company started producing bicycles in its own factory.
In 1986, Giant, under new president Bill Austin, established its own brand of bicycles to compete in the rapidly expanding $ 200-and-above price range.
" Two things changed his mind: he found them easy to sell, with a greater profit than he could earn with the sewing machines ; and his sons begged him mercilessly for bicycles of their own.
Brunelière began making his own bicycles in 1930, choosing the name Gitane ( meaning " gypsy " ).
Velocio, as de Vivie was known, began to import bicycles from Coventry ; within two years, however, he had begun to produce his own bicycles.
With the Second World War affecting parts supply, Malvern Star bicycles started manufacturing many of its own parts for bicycles.
He is an avid cyclist, does not own car and can be seen at all hours of the day or night tearing around the Streets Of Old Montreal on one of the many bicycles in his extensive collection.

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