pedal
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The study also found that, when compared with injuries from traditional pedal bikes, e-bike riders suffered more serious and severe injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Gaik Pobokhian, when she mistook the gas and brake pedals and hit the gas pedal “way too hard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Tour has fixed something in Paris: taking what used to be a mostly-dull pedal around the cobbles of the Champs-Élysées and adding a riotous, repeat ascent which separates the best riders from the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Fans prepared to spend five figures book all-inclusive cycling trips where teams of concierges do everything but pedal the bike for them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He would come to it without having to pedal or run or walk or even move a muscle.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Unlike the electric cars Tesla currently deploys in its rideshare service, the Cybercab comes without a steering wheel or pedals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
A legal e-bike , externalmust have pedals and the motor is only there to provide assistance while the rider is pedalling.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The company said it started volume production of its autonomous Cybercab, which doesn’t have a steering wheel or pedals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“At what point they would approve a truck without a steering wheel or pedals and without a cab in the vehicle, that’s probably going to be a little longer,” Sperling said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
She was about the same size as Saleem though, and he managed to turn the pedals.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
"It's a great honour to receive the fantastic prize and I look forward to being pedaled around all of the media studios to air my story," said Mr Can.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
We had doubts as we pedaled off from the Pacific Coast cliffs and onto our summer bicycle route across America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
I pedaled by three bros holding hands and singing and city workers cleaning public toilets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
On 1 July 2023, as Tour de France riders pedaled out of Bilbao, Spain, toward the French Pyrenees mountains, sports cardiologist Andre La Gerche tuned in from Melbourne, Australia.
From Science Magazine ● May 14, 2024
Alex gripped the handlebars and pedaled as hard as he could.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
They said Stephen McCullagh, 36, initially "pedalled the live stream as an alibi" but the court heard he later admitted to police that it had been pre-recorded days before.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Most days, Mr. Voiles said, he pedalled the animals up to a hill above the Mississippi River where he braids crosses, fleurs-de-lis and other items, which he sells to pay for pet food and rent.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Grabbing his bicycle from a parking lot, he pedalled on Shanghai's deserted roads past swank office towers to find a place to pitch a small tent he and his girlfriend had bought for travelling.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
Knowing that such nonsense is being pedalled publicly, you cannot help but speculate what Benedict intended by publishing his letter earlier this month.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2019
The other pedalled its narrow shoulders up and down, stalking the open door.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
When the film opens at Oak Street’s idyllic summer block party, complete with cookouts and kids happily pedaling together on their bikes, he purposefully evokes the atmosphere of the movies he covertly cites.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Post retirement, I have returned to avid road bicycling and those years pedaling a heavy steel single-speed bike with 20 pounds of papers in all kinds of weather has really paid off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
They differ from other products on the market in the way the pedaling mechanism works — the e-bikes have no chains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Riders can choose an electric-assist level that makes pedaling easier or harder.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
I felt sometimes like a swan on a lake, knowing that my job was in part to glide and appear serene, while underwater I never stopped pedaling my legs.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
"I'm just kicking myself because I had to stop pedalling with 20 metres to the line. It is what it is."
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
In the letter addressed to the Health Secretary Jeremy Miles, The British Dental Association Cymru Wales accused the Welsh government of pedalling "half-truths" about their messaging and statistics.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
The Department for Transport is consulting on the proposals which would also allow e-bikes that don't require pedalling to travel much faster.
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
The spray-painted bicycle paid homage to Félix Patricio Teófilo, a Mexican immigrant who, like them, made his living pedalling to deliver food.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Eric was squealing louder than ever and pedalling the air with his legs.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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