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  2. List of bicycle types - Wikipedia

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    Exceptions are "The Companion", or "Sociable," a side-by-side two-person bike (that converted to a single-rider) built by the Punnett Cycle Mfg. Co. in Rochester, N.Y. in the 1890s. On the Conference Bike, riders sit in a circle facing each other. On the Busycle, the captain faces forwards, one row of stokers faces left, and one row faces right ...

  3. Tandem bicycle - Wikipedia

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    Brazilian princes (from left) Antônio, Luís, and Pedro on a triple tandem bike during their exile, 1891 Patents related to tandem bicycles date from the mid-1880s. [1] In approximately 1898, Mikael Pedersen developed a two-rider tandem version of his Pedersen bicycle that weighed 24 pounds, and a four-rider, or "quad", that weighed 64 pounds. [2]

  4. Bicycle performance - Wikipedia

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    According to a study a human at 70 kg (150 lb) requires about 60 watts to walk at 5 km/h (3.1 mph) on firm and flat ground, [6] while according to a calculator at kreuzotter.de the same person and power output on an ordinary bicycle will travel at 15 km/h (9.3 mph), [7] so in these conditions the energy expenditure of cycling is about one-third ...

  5. List of cycling records - Wikipedia

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    The record was again surpassed on 19 September 2015 by Todd Reichert by riding the ETA, a streamlined recumbent bicycle at 139.45 km/h (86.65 mph) from the team behind the AeroVelo Atlas human-powered helicopter. [20] [21] Todd Reichert broke his own record again on September 17, 2016, to set a speed of 144.17 km/h (89.58 mph) at the 2016 WHPSC.

  6. Sociable - Wikipedia

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    Two people riding a sociable Malvern Star sociable from the 1930s. The sociable or buddy bike [1] or side by side bicycle is a bicycle that supports two riders who sit next to one another, in contrast to a tandem bicycle, where the riders sit fore and aft. The name "sociable" alludes to the relative ease with which the two cyclists can speak ...

  7. Hour record (recumbents) - Wikipedia

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    Wijers became the first unfaired recumbent rider to exceed 50 km. [6] On May 15, 2009, 26-year-old Aurélien Bonneteau set a new WRRA unfaired world record of 50.52 km (31.40 mi) in Bordeaux-Lax, France, at the Guy Lapebie indoor velodrome. Bonneteau was racing an M5 lowracer set up with single speed gearing, both front and rear wheel disks ...

  8. Cycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, recent efforts to increase cycling in the United States have been insufficient, and the number of people who ride their bikes continues to plummet from 2014-2019. [ 2 ] Recently, many American cities have started to promote cycling due to economic and educational opportunities, following what many European countries did in the past ...

  9. Bicycle law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bicycle law in the United States is the law of the United States that regulates the use of bicycles. Although bicycle law is a relatively new specialty within the law, first appearing in the late 1980s, its roots date back to the 1880s and 1890s, when cyclists were using the courts to assert a legal right to use the roads.

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