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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 ...
The price of a new bicycle can range from US$50 to more than US$20,000 (the highest priced bike in the world is the custom Madone by Damien Hirst, sold at US$500,000 [10]), [11] depending on quality, type and weight (the most exotic road bicycles can weigh as little as 3.2 kg (7 lb) [12]).
1886 Swift Safety Bicycle. Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817.
Hand colored slide of Anders Beer Wilse riding down a road from Filefjell to Lærdal in 1902, [6] on a bicycle with a frame bag and a box in front. The term bikepacking was used in the May 1973 article Bikepacking Across Alaska and Canada in National Geographic magazine, [7] where the writer Dan Burden described 30 cyclists who had a go on the Hemistour Bicycling Expedition from Alaska to ...
A bicycle is a two-wheeled, pedal-driven vehicle. Bicycle or bicycles may also refer to: Bicycle (graph theory), a minimal graph that is not a pseudoforest; An ace-to-five straight, a type of poker hand; Bicycle crunch, an abdominal exercise; Bicycle kick, a way of kicking a ball in various sports
A city bike with a step-through frame is practical for easy mounting in and out. Straight sitting position focusing on comfort instead of speed. A utility bicycle, city bicycle, urban bicycle, [1] European city bike (ECB), Dutch bike, classic bike or simply city-bike is a bicycle designed for frequent very short, relatively slow rides through very flat urban areas.
A stationary bicycle (also known as exercise bicycle, exercise bike, spinning bike, spin bike, or exercycle) is a device used as exercise equipment for indoor cycling. It includes a saddle , pedals , and some form of handlebars arranged as on a (stationary) bicycle .
This type of bicycle was known in its day as the "ordinary", but people later began calling it a "penny-farthing" because of the resemblance of its wheel sizes to the largest and smallest English copper coins of the time; it is also known as a "high-wheel". Front-wheel sizes quickly grew to as much as 5 feet (1.5 metres), and the bicycles were ...