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Clip-on aerobars fitted to a gravel bike for racing Gravel bikes have been constructed out of a wide variety of frame materials, including aluminium , carbon fibre , titanium and steel . The vast majority of gravel bikes include rigid front forks, being carbon fibre and chromoly forks the most used given its inherent vibration-absorbing properties.
An art bike is any bicycle modified for creative purposes while still being ridable. It is a type of kinetic sculpture . The degree of artistic creativity and originality or new functionality of art bikes varies greatly, depending on the artist or designer's intentions (as well as the subjective interpretation of what "art" is by the observer).
Boneshaker (or bone-shaker) is a name dating from the 1860s for the first type of true bicycle with pedals, which were called velocipedes by their manufacturers. "Boneshaker" referred to the extremely uncomfortable ride, which was caused by the stiff wrought-iron frame and wooden wheels surrounded by tires made of iron .
Ghost bike in Gray's Inn Road, London, 2005. A ghost bike (also referred to as a ghostcycle or WhiteCycle) is a bicycle roadside memorial, placed where a cyclist has been killed or severely injured, usually by the driver of a motor vehicle. [1] Apart from being a memorial, it is usually intended as a reminder to passing motorists to share the road.
The event, also known as Black Bike Week or Atlantic Beach Bike Fest, has been held since 1980. “Bikers and non-bikers are welcome,” said Atlantic Beach town manager, Benjamin Quattlebaum. He ...
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The dogtooth tuna is appreciated in most of its range as a fine food fish and also as a game fish sought by both rod and reel anglers and spearfishermen. Dogtooth tuna used to be mostly taken as an incidental catch by anglers trolling for other gamefish - with natural baits for black marlin , for instance, or with lures for wahoo and Spanish ...
Borophagus, like other borophagines, are loosely known as "bone-crushing" or "hyena-like" dogs.Though not the most massive borophagine by size or weight, it had a more highly evolved capacity to crunch bone than earlier, larger genera such as Epicyon, which seems to be an evolutionary trend of the group (Turner, 2004).