bicycle, n.Definitions

The Bicycle is dangerous without being fun, much like open-heart surgery, the South Bronx, and divorce.

A Bicycle is a vehicle that can't stand on its own because it is two tired.

The Bicycle is more responsible for women's sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged.

The Bicycle is the best way to know a country, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them, thus, in contrast to an automobile, you remember them as they actually are.

The Bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of 3,000 miles per gallon.

The Bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

The Bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

The Bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.