Word: pedalers
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...Isaac Magnin gave up carving at an early date, took a hand in the store's finances, but by the century's turn he had lost interest in the business. A linguist and amateur philosopher who quoted continually from Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward), he used to pedal his bicycle around & around Golden Gate Park, pockets crammed with Marxian tracts and pamphlets. Before he died in 1907 Mary...
...practical "pedalboat" ($175), built like a catamaran. Reclining in two deck chairs, passengers can pedal up to 10 m. p. h. while they fish, hunt, acquire sunburn...
...anchor-weighing contraption ($500) wherewith, by stepping on a pedal, a yachtsman starts a motor to raise his anchor...
...brought a prize misadventure. Gottfried Hurtgen, who had replaced Debaets as Alfred Letourner's partner, tangled with Bobby Echevaria, jacknifed to the boards amid the wreckage of his bicycle, stumbled off with a broken collarbone. By 9:30 p. m., the spills numbered 28. Next night Norman Hill pedaled into Dave Lands. The latter was only slightly damaged but the Californian dislocated his collarbone. Hour later, Eddie Testa relieved his partner, Echevaria, by bowling into him. So great was the impact that Echevaria's pedal broke through the wooden surface of the track. Echevaria retired with severe bruises...
...tries to keep his feet when he slips on an icy walk are the results of a deep-rooted reflex possessed by all animals, fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed by the left foot will turn off the ignition...