In November 2007 in - you guessed it - Scotland, 51-year-old Robert Stewart was placed on the sex offenders register after outraging hostel cleaners by performing a perverted act with his gnarpoon.
North Korean scientists have trained a termite colony to pedal a specially adapted bicycle around an 20-metre obstacle course. And the little bastards can manual too.
There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing.
A chain drive can be up to 98% efficient at energy transfer. An engineering marvel.
There is some question about whether Macmillan was credited as the inventor of the pedal bicycle because of a publicity campaign by his nephew, and the real inventor was Thomas McCall:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McCall
But McCall was Scottish as well.
Bikes can ride themselves quite nicely with no-one on them, until drag slows them down enough and they fall over.
As well as being an award winning potential energy assisted bicycler, Daniel Hart is an accomplished player of the Theorbo and can often be found playing baroque music in the pubs around Redcar and Saltburn.
The cantilever brake was invented by Swiss engineer Gustav Cantilever.
All chavs, neds, scally's can wheelie with a fag in their mouth. It's in their DNA.
The bicycle tyre puncture repair kitt was quickly discounted in the development process of the popular Knight Rider TV series
No matter how good you think you are on a bicycle, there is a guy on an obscure forum called geex who is better than you..at everything
Fact..
Riding a bike makes you more attractive to the opposite sex.
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Bikes can ride themselves quite nicely with no-one on them, until drag slows them down enough and they fall over.
And no-one can quite explain how they do this.
They are called bicycles because they have two wheels.
The furthest anyone has cycled in a 365 day period is 86,537 miles by Amanda Coker in 2017.
And in 2019 has only done 190.2km so far.
“As well as being an award winning potential energy assisted bicycler, Daniel Hart is an accomplished player of the Theorbo and can often be found playing baroque music in the pubs around Redcar and Saltburn.”
This. Crying
And no-one can quite explain how they do this.
It's because the contact patch is behind the steering axis...
And the gyroscopic effect of a spinning wheel.
The average person will lose almost a stone in their first year of cycling to work, so it's okay to eat cake and enjoy several post-ride beers
Despite being promoted by Boris Johnson, so-called experts have concluded beyond reasonable doubt that bicycles not only exist but can be shown to function within the constraints of our shared reality.
The Boris bike was invented by Swiss engineer Gustav Boris.
You need some Beryl facts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton#Record-breaker
In 1967, she set a new 12-hour time trial record of 277.25 miles[5] – a mark that surpassed the men’s record of the time by 0.73 miles and was not superseded by a man until 1969.[6] While setting the record she caught and passed Mike McNamara who was on his way to setting the men's record at 276.52 miles and winning that year's men's British Best All-Rounder. She is reputed to have given him a liquorice allsort as she passed him.[7] Apparently, McNamara ate the sweet.
And beaten by a woman only in 2017.
Swiss engineers named Gustav were invented in the 1800's by an Ayrshire blacksmith named Wullie Carmichael
French bicycles are transexual: le velo (masculine) la bicyclette (feminine) 🙂
The furthest anyone has cycled in a 365 day period is 86,537 miles by Amanda Coker in 2017.
And in 2019 has only done 190.2km so far.
And she did the whole thing on a circuit at "Flatwoods Park" in Tampa, which appears to be a 7 mile loop. **** that.
The original plan for The Italian Job was to stage the chase scene on Moulton bikes, but Benny Hill vetoed it.
The bicycle is the only thing that makes you feel like this no matter what your age.
In 1995 Chris Boardman made a washing machine from bicycle parts as part of his attempt to regain the world laundry record from Graeme Obree. Although he failed in the final rinse, Boardman later went on to business success by changing his name to Chris Hoy, becoming scottish and launching a range of miniature tricycles in conjunction with shell suit retailer JD Sports.
Your mum's a bicycle.
Fact.
Sagan only groped that podium girl because he was overcompensating for accidentally calling Cancellara "dad", backstage.
One bhp is equivilent to 700 watts. That means that the entire tour de France peloton are putting out less power than a 50cc moped on an average tour stage..
If my maths is correct and assuming 250 watts average for a stage.
Edit..it's not..50cc doesn't put out 50 bhp! So the same as a fiat panda.
The human powered vehicle 200m record stands at 89.59mph.
The vehicle doesn't have any transparent section in its bodywork - the rider views the world through a camera mounted on top of the vehicle relayed to a monitor within.
Bugger that.
You need some Beryl facts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton#Record-breaker
In 1967, she set a new 12-hour time trial record of 277.25 miles[5] – a mark that surpassed the men’s record of the time by 0.73 miles and was not superseded by a man until 1969.[6] While setting the record she caught and passed Mike McNamara who was on his way to setting the men’s record at 276.52 miles and winning that year’s men’s British Best All-Rounder. She is reputed to have given him a liquorice allsort as she passed him.[7] Apparently, McNamara ate the sweet.
And beaten by a woman only in 2017
I knew her. She and my wife got on quite well together.
The largest tension-spoked wheel in the world is the London Eye.
APF
The bicycle crank is named after Big Rab Krankie, uncle of Jeanette Krankie.
He used it to get as far away from his niece and her husband as possible.
Bullmoose handlebars contain neither bull, nor moose.
The Rohloff hub was invented by Nazi scientists towards the end of WW2 in order to maximize efficiency of the ME163's experimental rocket engines.
It was subsequently redesigned by NASA, and was used by the Astronauts in the Apollo 13 rescue mission.
He was forced to make it by the nazis. He was in fact Swiss, by the name of Gustav ME163.
Interestingly, he was originally called Gustav Messerschmitt, but after buying a car with the registration number ME163 he changed his name by deed poll in order to save money on personalised number plates and later became a regular contributor to the Viz Top Tips page.
And ein very naughty boy.
The internet bicycle forum was invented in 1985 by a Swiss engineer named Gustav Argument
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