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unusual facts about bike


Bike-engined car

A bike-engined car is a small or light weight car that is powered by an engine that was designed for use in a motorcycle.


1983 Paris–Roubaix

His team managed to deliver a new bike in time, and Hennie Kuiper entered the velodrome in Roubaix on his own.

2007 Pan American Mountain Bike Championships

The 2007 Pan American Mountain Bike Continental Championships were held from March 8 to March 11, 2007 in Neuquén, Argentina.

2010 North West 200 Races

The only notable incident was Conor Cummins high-siding his bike on the exit of University Corner during the Superstock race.

Acme Bread Company

While riding his bike through England during a summer trip to Europe he bought English Bread and Yeast Cookery, Elizabeth David's 1977 book on breadmaking and bread history.

Al Melling

The finished model of the Nemesis weighed 217 kg - Carl Fogarty (the most successful world super bike rider of all time) rode it and stated that it was more compact and lighter than his Ducati race bike.

Aladdin Deck Enhancer

BMX Simulator is a licensed product of the BMX sports bike line, where the player controls a bicycle rider in a top view looking down at the track, similar to Super Sprint.

Alain Chevallier

In 1982, Didier de Radiguès rode a Chevallier-designed bike to victory in the 350cc Yugoslavian Grand Prix and finished the season in second place in the F.I.M. 350cc world championship.

Arlen Ness

The museum displays his famous Untouchable, the twin motor Two Bad, the antique inspired Ness-Tique, Blower Bike, the Italian sports car inspired Ferrari Bike, the '57 Chevy inspired Ness-Stalgia, the Bugatti-like Smooth-Ness, the Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off bike Top Banana, and his jet-powered Mach Ness.

Arnold Janssen

Janssen was canonized after the healing of Pamela Avellanosa, a Filipina teenager living in Baguio who fell down on a bike and was not expected to recover from a head wound.

Austin Powers: Welcome to My Underground Lair!

There are a few mini-games included, such as Mojo Maze, a Pac-Man clone, Domination (an Austin Powers-themed version of Reversi), a digitalized version of Rock-Paper-Scissors, and 'Kin'-Evil, which is a motor bike racing game whose name is a play on Evel Knievel.

Bike Squad

Bike Squad is a 2008 English television comedy film about a team of bicycle-mounted police.

Black Bike Week

Called a "a one-of-a-kind event" and "an exhibitionist's paradise" by Jeffrey Gettleman, Black Bike Week is "all about riding, styling and profiling," in the words of Mayor Irene Armstrong of Atlantic Beach, South Carolina.

BMW 321

Albert Seidler, the man in charge of Eisenach motor bike production, demonstrated the 321 to Marshall Zhukov and secured from him an order for five new cars.

Boca Grande Bike Path

Bayard Sharp, an heir of the Du Pont family who controlled the Gasparilla Inn, saw the need for a bike path after one of his employees had been killed on a bicycle on the island.

Brough Superior

"Superior" was a claim by George Brough of his bike's superiority over all other motorcycles, including the original Brough Motorcycles manufactured by his father, William E. Brough.

Carl Fogarty

Despite winning four races that season on the RC45, three more than team-mate Aaron Slight, and one more than Slight had managed over three seasons on the bike, Fogarty again struggled with consistency and finished 4th overall, 16 points behind 2nd placed Slight and 38 points behind champion Troy Corser.

Carl Gugasian

Once outside the bank, he would run into the well-scouted woods, where a dirt bike was waiting, stash the evidence in his cache, then ride the bike a few miles through the woods to an anonymous-looking panel van waiting on the other side.

Cycling in San Francisco

Most of the bike lanes are located in relatively flat neighborhoods close to the center of the city, including SoMa, the Mission, Haight-Ashbury, and the Richmond.

David Wiens

David Wiens is known most for his six consecutive wins in the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race including defeating both Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong of Tour de France infamy.

Eskil Suter

Suter developed, in cooperation with Swissauto, the Muz 500 bike, in particular the chassis design and concept for the 1999 season, after the MuZ team decided to cease using the ROC frame.

European city bike

In 1997, then President of the United States Bill Clinton was given a European city bike named City Bike One as a memento of his visit to Copenhagen, Denmark.

Fancy Ultra•Fresh

Remixed versions of "Stakeout" and "Bike Thief" appear in the video games Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3 and Downhill Domination, respectively.

Garrett Brown

The Steadicam was first used in the Hal Ashby film Bound for Glory (1976), receiving an Academy Award (Best Cinematography), and since used on such films as Rocky, filming Rocky's running and training sequences, and Return of the Jedi, where Brown walked with the Steadicam shooting film at 1 frame per second to achieve the illusion of high speed motion during the speeder bike chase.

High-intensity interval training

In a BBC Horizon programme in February 2012, he put Michael J. Mosley on an exercise bike regimen consisting of three sets of about 2 minutes of gentle pedalling followed by 20 second bursts of cycling at maximum effort.

Joe Bar Team

Jean-Raoul Ducable Pun on " J'enroule du cable" (rolling in cable) a slang way of saying accelerating on a bike since you twist the handle to "roll in cable"- Kawasaki 750 H2 since second album Suzuki GSXR 750

Joe Breeze

An early participant in the sport of mountain biking, Breeze, along with other pioneers including Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelly, and Tom Ritchey, is known for his central role in developing the mountain bike.

Landscape of the Body

It was directed by John Pasquin, and Shirley Knight starred as Betty, F. Murray Abraham as Holahan, Paul McCrane as Bert, Rex Robbins as Durwood Peach, Jay O. Sanders as the Bike Messenger/Dope King/Bank Teller, Bonnie Deroski as Margie, Alexa Kenin as Joanne, Anthony Marciona as Donny, Richard Bauer as Raulito, and Peg Murray as Rosalie.

Leadville Trail 100 MTB

In 2010, Armstrong was unable to return due to injury, but his Team RadioShack teammate Levi Leipheimer, riding in his first mountain bike race, won and set a new course record of 6:16:37.

Legend of the Motorcycle

West Coast Choppers unveiled their Airstream Bike at the Legend show, which cost over $300,000 and was made for Airstream CEO, Bob Wheeler.

Los Angeles River bicycle path

This is because the bike path on the East side of the river continues northeast onto the Rio Hondo and becomes a separate trail, heading on a different river.

Lotus 108

Of the fifteen, at least two are on display, one at the Lotus Factory at Hethel, and Boardman's hour record bike at the Museum of Liverpool.

Loveland Bike Trail

The Tour de Loveland, an annual cycling race named after the Tour de France, was started in the 1990s, to promote the Loveland Bike Trail as the centerpiece of Historic Downtown Loveland.

Michael J. Devlin

He had disappeared on October 6, 2002, at age 11 while riding his bike to a friend's house in Richwoods, Missouri.

Midnight Ridazz

Josh Anderson, founder of "Bike Gang" in Grand Junction, Colorado, cites an Alternative Press article about Midnight Ridazz as his inspiration for organizing the group/ride.

Mountain Biking UK

The magazine along with co-sponsors such as Nike, Santa Cruz and Fox Racing Inc. operated a successful professional mountain bike team from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s, including riders of the calibre of Steve Peat, Mark Beaumont, Rob Warner and Will Longden and competing in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.

Oliver Njego

With his godfather Predrag Miletić, actor of the National Theater, he has traveled for several years in a row with a bike to the monastery Hilandar on Mount Athos in Greece.

Paul Teutul, Sr.

They include claims from former employees, including Cody Connelly for a bike he was apparently given on the show but never got to keep, as well as unauthorized use of his name and likeness.

Peter Hammill

As a former Jesuit chorister, his delivery is usually Received Pronunciation British English — notable exceptions are his Afrikaner accent on "A Motor-bike in Afrika" and his Cockney accent on "Polaroid" — and ranges in tone from peacefully celestial to screaming rants (which are nevertheless highly controlled).

Pocketbike racing

Pocket Bike racing, also known as Minimoto or circus racing, is a category of racing where miniature racing motorcycles (known as pocket bikes or minimoto) are raced around kart tracks.

Raid the Cage

Vacation abroad: Bicycle task - The constestant must ride on a bike simulator that its map simulates a section of Rome, so he/she can take a globe and win the vacation.

Richard Lindsey Batten

He fell off his motor bike, concussed himself (crash helmets were little used then), and lost his sense of taste and smell.

Richmond Greenway

An additional side project will add a bike lane/bike trail between the Richmond Greenway and the Ohlone Greenway at Potrero Avenue via 23rd Street, Carlson Boulevard, Cutting Boulevard, and Potrero.

Robert Grogg

Grogg dominated the Swiss and European sidecarcross scene in the 1970s, riding on a bike powered by a British Norton engine.

Spray on Pants

The music video is constructed in a similar fashion to George A. Romero films, with two zombies dressed as stereotypical "emos" who initially bite a small child on his bike, making him a zombie as well.

Suzuki Boulevard C50

Prior to 2005, this bike model was named the Volusia (for Volusia County, Florida) where it was unveiled at the 2001 Daytona Bike Week.

The World Triathlon

The World Triathlon consists of a 275 mile (about 442.6 kilometers) swim along the length of the River Thames and across the English Channel, then a 8,875 mile bike ride from Calais, France to Calcutta, India.

Thomas Frischknecht

He became closely linked to Tom Ritchey, a major bike-components producer, who provided support and became a mentor and a good friend.

Väisänen

Mervi Väisänen (born 1973), Finnish ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering competitor

World Naked Bike Ride Seattle

For the first time ever in Seattle, a clothing-optional bike ride went through the Central and Madrona Districts of Seattle to begin its trek down Lake Washington Boulevard, which was originally designed as a bicycle path by the Olmsted Brothers.

Yealmpton

Highlights included the Royal Horse Artillery parading and firing their guns as well as the M.A.D mountain bike display team.


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