Word: bicyclists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernard Hinault, marathon bicyclist, explaining the philosophy that won for him the 1978 Tour de France: "I have no complexes. That's the only way to succeed...
...work in his gleaming Lincoln Continental, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, 54, might glide by a straining bicyclist named Frank Tuerkheimer, 35, heading in the same direction. After putting in a morning's work in his spacious suite of Washington offices, Williams may lunch at the Sans Souci. Tuerkheimer brown-bags it in his cramped, spartan office, where he works as a Government lawyer...
...number of bicyclists has skyrocketted in the past few years and with it the number of bicyclists in traffic accidents. Bicycling in Cambridge is not the safest of all "sports". Unfortunately many of these accidents are the bicyclist's fault. Massachusetts law allows bicycles on all roads (except expressways and limited access highways), but it also requires that they obey all traffic regulations. Bicyclists have frequently disregarded one way and stop signs, occassionally with disastrous results...
Where does this leave the bicyclist in Cambridge? If not with physical superiority to all the automobiles, at least with a distinct aesthetic superiority. While an automobile is a true pig among vehicles, a bicyclist can go farther with less energy than anything else, manmade or natural. What with the traffic in Cambridge a bicycle will probably also leave you where you want to be faster than anything else...
...their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later fought alcoholism, then returned to the sport in the 1940s as a referee...