Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That reminded someone else of the times when they were kids that they'd hear the mosquito control truck coming into their neighborhood. They'd race out of bed and into the garage and hop on their bikes and a whole pack of buddies would pedal like runway fools into the thick white cloud of kerosene and DDT sprayed out of a nozzle at the back. "There wasn't any chemical high to it," said the son of a dairy farmer, "but it sure was cool looking into that cloud for a while." And about the time their lungs...
...Sterling, Mich., is taking another approach to the electric vehicle market. Aiming at retirement communities, for which it already produces a bicycle-type two-passenger pedal car, EVI plans to manufacture an electric version starting next fall. The Electric Powered Vehicle will be three-wheeled, travel at 25 m.p.h. for up to 45 miles between recharges, and cost under...
...differences in bicycles are differences in cost, weight and performance. A $100 bicycle will weigh over 30 pounds, flex in the wrong places when you try to pedal hard, and get you around the city just fine. For a little more money the manufacturers use lighter rims, more reliable components, and take more care in building the frame. If you are willing to pay $160 or more you can get a bicycle with some of the steel replaced with lighter aluminum, and the weight will begin to come down. A cycle like this will carry you in style anywhere...
...watching the cars go by. It's hard-driving and strong but with a controlled drawl, so that it sounds redundant at first, until the body of the song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel, a rhythm guitar and Jennings on lead. The tunes are written by and large by Billy Joe Shaver--one of the best--and they're basically macho stuff, about outlaws and boozers and a woman associated with every town. But anyone accustomed to country music has gotten over that...
...Wills's radio shows in the thirties with chorus girls swaying in cowboy skirts; liquor-riddled voices straining on old records. To make up for this, the simplicity has got to go, replaced by five instruments doing interesting things all at once. Here it's an electric fiddle, pedal steel, lead guitar, bass, banjo, and drums, and they all lend a propensity for jazz-and-rock-like riffs. The Grateful Dead and the New Riders do this with country music, but their songs are different, trippy and abstract rather than sensual and evocative...