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ten-speed

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as in bicycle

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Recent Examples of ten-speed Passing power is readily available and the ten-speed is amenable to being flattened when trying to hit a closing gap in traffic. — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 In the case of cars, Ford ended up being better in ten-speed transmissions, GM in nine-speed transmissions. — Harvard Business Review, 17 July 2024 Modest numbers for a 4,500-pound hauler, but Honda engineers tuned the ten-speed automatic to provide the best reflexes. — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023 There are also two transmissions to pick between, too—a six-speed manual and a ten-speed automatic with paddle shifters. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 May 2023

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The suspect, who fled after the shooting, was described by authorities as a white man with a bicycle.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
This is for construction to add a seven-foot bicycle lane and a new path alongside University Drive.

— Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of bicycle

Noun

Sailing through the Drake Passage is like being on a mountain bike and joining in with a herd of stampeding bison, or like paragliding between Alpine peaks in the middle of the wildest storm.

— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
Don’t miss the Marin Museum of Bicycling and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, curated by Marin native Joe Breeze, a pioneering mountain bike builder.

— Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of mountain bike

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The trio is riding a three-person triple tandem bicycle across Iowa.

— Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 20 July 2026
The anti-social age vs the tandem bicycle Over the last generation, America has experienced startling shifts in social behavior and just about all of them clash with an exercise that requires togetherness.

— Mark Dent, HubSpot, 1 June 2026

Definition of tandem bicycle

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My next bike, the red-and-yellow Big Wheel, had a lot in common with a velocipede known as the penny-farthing, which was invented in the eighteen-seventies.

— The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Oakland Pedal Tours offers free velocipede shuttles between breweries, which are also within walking distance.

— Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2019

Definition of velocipede

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