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The first Western travelers with bicycles were documented in the Ottoman Empire starting in 1885, [1] including an American woman, Annie Londonderry, who made a bike trip around the world from 1894 to 1895. [2] Most early Ottoman cyclists were likely members of the middle and upper classes, as bicycles imported from Europe were expensive. [1]
Bahlika kingdom in the map of ancient India, 500 BCE Wahla is a title used by the Kshatriyas of India and Pakistan.Alternate spellings include Wahla/Walha, Vahla/Vala, Bahla/Balhara, Bala/Bal/Pala/Pal and Wara/Vara or Waraha used by Kshatriya or the royal class/castes of the different regions which spell differently due to local languages and accents.
Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala (-wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi.It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [1]
Alternatively known as a city bike, a bicycle that is designed to be ridden on the road sometimes utilizing components of a mountain bike and in most cases, hydraulic disc brakes; similar to a hybrid bicycle. [127] USS Under seat steering, a steering configuration on recumbent bicycles where the handlebar goes under the seat, like on an office ...
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. By the early 21st century there were more ...
European city bike Children riding a bike in Ghana. Cycling, [1] also known as bicycling [2] or biking, [3] is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle. It encompasses the use of human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles.
A judge in Brazil has ordered Adele’s song Million Years Ago to be removed globally from streaming services due to a plagiarism claim by Brazilian composer, Toninho Geraes. Geraes alleges that ...
Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...