Word: biked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bike on the moon? Yes, says M.I.T...
Wilson, co-author of the book Bicycling Science, is admittedly something of a bike nut. He pedals to class rain or shine. Even before Project Apollo was on the launchpad, he tried vainly to persuade NASA to include a pedal-powered vehicle. But the space agency opted instead for its $38 million, battery-driven lunar rover, a two-man vehicle that took up valuable payload capacity...
...Ferraro eagerly trots down the campaign trail, suffering the trials common to all candidates as well as those peculiar to women. A staff member makes a scheduling mistake, and she ends up at a marina when she is supposed to be at another boat basin; the March of Dimes bike-a-thon starts without her. As she walks down a Queens street handing out literature, one woman whispers to her husband: "She's very pretty, isn't she?" A man urges her to "get the electric chair going as soon as possible." At a housing project, a middle-aged black...
...navigating perilously among pedestrians, while rolling guitarists serenade the sunbathers. In Minneapolis, the owner of Rolling Soles, Scott Sansby, 27, finds skating a practical means of transportation. "I tie my shoes to my belt loops and take off on my skates," he says. "They're better than a bike because you don't have to worry about locking them up when you get to your destination...
...prone to knee pains, numbness in the fingers from pressing down on low-slung handlebars, lower-back problems from the bent-over position, and, yes, simple but irksome saddle burns. There are also reports of a more unusual disability in men that has been traced to long hours of bike riding: temporary sterility...