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...junkie is tall and pale and goofy looking, in a T shirt and bike shorts, and Edward Conlon doesn't have a whole lot of obvious sympathy for him--he calls him Big Bird behind his back. Big Bird used to be an electrician till he realized his true calling, namely, shooting smack. A few days ago, one of Big Bird's fellow junkies conked him on the head with a chunk of concrete--the chunk is in Conlon's desk, in fact, with blood and hair still on it--and it's Conlon's job to find...
...Netherlands (population 16 million) has more bicycles than people. Every year, over one tenth of these bikes are stolen. It’s getting so bad that the Amsterdam police have recently decided to start using GPS systems to track stolen bicycles. Apparently, the biggest problem is the proliferation of gangs of professional bicycle thieves, who roam the city at night with trucks and load up dozens of pilfered bikes at a time. Except for the whole free love/drug use thing, our Cantabrigian community might be Amsterdam’s kid sibling: Cambridge is the bike theft capital of Massachusetts...
...that someone had jolted me out of my comfortable world with what can only be described as an act of patent, petty meanness. I sure hope that there were bona fide economic motives behind the theft (and I really hope the bandit is using the cash from my bike to pay his landlord, not his dealer). But from my point of view, it felt like a bully had just pushed me into the dirt, stamped on my favorite sweater and taken my fruit rollup...
...found in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales. We know who came up with the bright idea of swimming submerged two lengths of a 60-m trench of freezing ooze: a local hotelier with rooms to let. And we know when: 1986. Last year, he added bike- bog-snorkeling (the same deal, on wheels) to the program, and the tabloids and tourists flocked to watch. Was cheese rolling, one wonders, invented by some ancient Anglo-Saxon Cheese Marketing Board? Daeschner's forays into cussed British culture blur the lines between past and present. And his plunging into...
...haunt now filled with a few red, green and blue ships. To the right (about 400 m) you can see City Hall and Playa de La Concha, which stretches for about 1.5 km. It's impossible to get lost: just follow the wide, busy sidewalk (there's also a bike path) overlooking the beach - always to the right. At the end of La Concha is Playa de Ondarreta - a spacious, sandy beach - and 500 m further, at the foot of Monte Igeldo, the walk ends at the Peine del Viento (Wind's Comb) sculpture, a primordial structure designed by Eduardo...