Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here is how you do it: jump on a bike and pedal in a straight line. Brake abruptly, spin the bike over the jammed front wheel and stand semiupright on "fork stander" pegs that you have attached to either side of the front tire. When the maneuver is completed, pedal off nonchalantly. Congratulations. You have just freestyled. You are a "bike breaker." Go join skate boarders and break dancers in the Street-Life Hall of Fame...
...York City's Central Park, the Rad Dogs, five Hispanic teens from the Bronx, enthrall crowds with their bike-borne acrobatics. "That was a Miami hop, followed by a pedal picker and a helicopter," explains Paul Perez, 16, after a display that bends the laws of physics. Marco Quezada, 16, tells the Rads' story: "We had nothing much to do until we saw a guy with a trick bike who did a few things, simple stuff, but we were real impressed. So we all started going out to get bikes of our own. That was two years...
...cohabitation has been more amiable than many French pundits had predicted. With last week's clash, however, both leaders signaled that there are limits to their reservoirs of amiability. "Cohabitation is a tandem bicycle," said Assembly Deputy Philippe Mestre in a clash of metaphors, "on which the two cyclists pedal in opposite directions...
...songs sound punchy all right, real straight-ahead, pedal-to-the-floor rock with no fancy instrumentation, just the sort of thing to come floating back from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...
...deafening boom of a truck horn, which seemed to be located somewhere in our back seat. The fact that we could see nothing but an immense grille in our rear window persuaded my grandmother that speeding was synonymous with surviving, and she put the pedal to the metal...