Last year Ford revealed its new ambitions in bicycle technology when it unveiled an experimental electric pushbike.
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Sometimes, I would ride my pushbike to the end of the road and search for bullet casings in old gun turrets.
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Witnesses reported the magpie swooping at the 76-year-old man while he was riding a pushbike along an off-road path on a local park, police said.
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After crossing a busy highway on his pushbike, Raith went to an ALDI supermarket and dragged a television to the cash register, which he tried to purchase it for 40 cents.
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Raith used a broom to unlock his home's door latch while his mother was in the shower, then rode his pushbike 3.2 kilometres to a local supermarket to find the perfect gift for mum. Bless.
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First up, coming straight from the opening gala at The Leftfield stage on his pushbike and arriving on the dot at 1:59 AM came Dr. Remain; clad in a casual white shirt and Regatta rucksack, and with his questioning finger firmly pointed, he was ready to speak to the young people of Britain.
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Gregg was born at Canada Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1909. At the age of 14 he joined the family egg and yeast business. He would make deliveries on his pushbike to local working-class homes.How famous bakery rose from pushbike yeast deliveries Evening Chronicle, 19 March 2008.
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He was given "pen, paper and pushbike" and a salary of three pounds per week. Off he went to Connemara.
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Jimmy signs the car over to Banos and pedals a pushbike back to his ex-wife's residence, Alex on the handle-bars. Night is falling, and when asked by his mother how the day went, he replied "It was the best day ever".
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"The Pushbike Song" is a song originally recorded by Australian band The Mixtures and released in 1970. The single was a chart success, reaching numbers one and two in the Australian and UK charts respectively. It has subsequently been covered by various artists.
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Keith Scott Besomo (born 8 June 1953) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Besomo, a lock, was born deaf in Sydney and claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia. He later in 2010 traveled by pushbike from Perth to Sydney, Australia.
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In 2018, the short documentary Alfie the Odd-Job Boy of Clitheroe featured on BBC Three. The film follows the ups and downs of 18-year-old Alfie Cookson, who set up his own business on a tandem pushbike and trailer after struggling to work for other people.
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Evan Jones is an Australian musician. Together with his brother Idris he wrote "The Pushbike Song". Jones was in an Adeliade band called the Gingerbread Men before his career was interrupted by military service in Vietnam. Also in the band was Idris Jones, Tony McNicoll and Dean Birbeck.
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They released a single in the 60s, "Looking At You" / "Goodnight" (1965, W&G;). Idris Jones was later a member of The Mixtures. The Jones brothers wrote their song "The Pushbike Song" which was released by the band in 1970. The song charted internationally and reached #1 in Australia.
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"Jasol" was an acronym for "Johnson's Antiseptic Soluble Oils Limited." Early deliveries were done by Johnson on a pushbike. In 1945, when he was well known for his association with the Jasol firm, Johnson was elected as Councillor on the Adelaide City Council. He resigned from the ALP in 1947.Councillor resigns from A.L.P., The Advertiser, 11 December 1947, p.3.
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Peter Slattery is a former World Cup winning Wallaby and QLD Reds Captain. Steve Kefu has 6 Wallaby caps to his name, and stints in the Super Rugby, Top 14, Premiership and Heineken Cup competitions. Huw Tindall has 0 Wallaby caps to his name, but did make his school's 3rd XV before rupturing his ankle in a nasty pushbike accident. Famous for his rugby knowledge.
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She also had difficulty moving her legs. She had most likely sustained these injuries after falling into the drain, although some media reports speculated that she had been in a car accident. To this day she claims she was knocked off a pushbike by a passing car, but the medical view has always been that she was physically assaulted . She was taken to Lismore Base Hospital, where she was treated for her injuries.
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After the race the name of "Albury" in Holland came-to mean more to us than Melbourne and Sydney". The morning after the landing a huge crowd gathered at the racecourse to lend what assistance they could. Clive Crosser, a retired builder from Albury was 12 years old at the time, said: "I had a pushbike and I hopped on and went out as early as I could. There were hundreds of people there.
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The word bicycle first appeared in English print in The Daily News in 1868, to describe "Bysicles and trysicles" on the "Champs Elysées and Bois de Boulogne". The word was first used in 1847 in a French publication to describe an unidentified two-wheeled vehicle, possibly a carriage. The design of the bicycle was an advance on the velocipede, although the words were used with some degree of overlap for a time. Other words for bicycle include "bike", "pushbike", "pedal cycle", or "cycle".
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On 6 March 2018, Gwala was attacked on his pushbike by three men during a training ride before sunrise around Durban. The men pulled him from the bike and cut the calf of his right leg with a saw, damaging his muscles, nerves, and bone, then attacked his left leg. The attack continued even though he offered the attackers his wallet, mobile phone, and bike. The men departed and Gwala crawled to the road where he flagged down a car and was taken to a local hospital.
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His departure from Myrtleford was by pushbike; he rode all the way to Grahamstown, near , for his wedding with Jenny Bradley. The Bradley family has a long association with the Snowy Mountains, various branches of the family having settled at , the Yarrangobilly Hotel, Yarrangobilly Caves as the first caretakers, and Kiandra. During 1900 the Foleys moved to Kiandra where Bill found work at Oliver Harris' store. Work comprised the butchering of livestock and subsequent transportation of the meat by packhorses to miners at Lobbs Hole.
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The Spen Valley Greenway passing through Heckmondwike In 1998, Sustrans acquired the trackbed and converted it into a greenway for people on foot or on pushbike. The greenway is equally maintained by Sustrans and Kirklees Council, who between them, have tarmacked the route. The greenway runs for on the former trackbed but the length of the route between Dewsbury and Low Moor extends to and is estimated to carry over 200,000 non-motorised journeys per year. In 2007, the route won first prize for mobility in the European Greenway Awards.
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It was during his time with the Sydney Morning Herald that Murray got the idea for the telegraphic typewriter. At the time, telegrams were transmitted by telegraphists using Morse code, then typed onto a telegram form which was then delivered by pushbike or on foot. Murray's idea was to use a typewriter to drive a device that translated each character of the text into a modified Baudot code. On the receiving end, another mechanism would print the coded characters on a paper tape, and/or make a perforated copy of the message.
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However, her decision to do this was much to the displeasure of her more ruthless business rival (Martin Brown), who tried everything in his power to close her business down. James Cosmo also starred as Carmichael, an illiterate hermit who was hired by Forrest as her assistant. He spent much of the series riding around on a pushbike with a tape recorder on which Forrest would record instructions of his tasks for the day. The duo managed to keep the company running, but the series was less successful, and was cancelled after one season.
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The FS1-E had the ability to be powered by pushbike type pedals since this was a legal requirement for registration as a moped in the United Kingdom and some other European countries at the time. The special pedal cranks allowed both pedals to be rotated forward so that the pedals would form motorcycle-style footrests in normal operation. To engage the pedals, the left-hand pedal crank could be rotated 180 degrees backwards and locked, and a drive gear engaged allowing the user to pedal. A short chain connected the pedal drive to the main engine- chain drive system.
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In 2012 "The Pushbike Song" was used on an advertising campaign for Tooheys 5 Seeds Cloudy Cider. The vocals on that version are purportedly a performance by "gypsy banjo player, Benny 'The Giant' Gogasa" recorded via Skype. This is probably a spoof on the part of the advertising agency, for what appears to be a local studio recording, with no independent evidence that Benny 'The Giant' Gogasa and "his band of orphans, misfits and mildly deformed gypsy musicians" actually exists. It was also heard in the Hotch Potch House episode Round and Round during a film about a girl getting a new bike.
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Flinn had been a member of Australian rock band The Mixtures from 1967 to 1972, which included the band's most successful period. With consecutive number 1 songs in Australia in 1970, their "The Pushbike Song" was released in the UK where it entered the charts in the top 5, peaking at #2 in January 1971. The Mixtures made the trip to England in January 1971, returned to Australia in November for a concert tour, and then returned to England in January 1972. Flinn left the band in May 1972, eventually settling permanently in the UK. In the UK, Flinn formed The Springfield Revival with Ray Martin and Donna Jones.
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The Mixtures recorded a cover of Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" and—as a result of the 1970 radio ban, during which many Australian radio stations refused to play Australian and British music released by major labels—received much more airplay than had initially been expected for a group on a small record label. The single went to #1 in Australia for six weeks. They followed up with "The Pushbike Song" (produced by David Mackay), which went to #1 in Australia for two weeks, hit #2 in the UK Singles Chart, and went to #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. after being released on Sire Records.
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Henry claimed to have started in the antique business 'shoving a hawker's barrow out of Jane Street' at the age of 9, "I started with a pushbike and 30 bob, I lived in one room which was also the shop." Henry performed secret acts of charity to local families, and was elected councillor to Edinburgh of one of the Canongate wards in 1936. Although she was Jewish, Henry had campaigned under a Protestant Action banner, supporting Protestant leader John Cormack. Shortly after her election Cormack announced he and Henry would stand for Parliament at the next UK general election, but in fact Henry soon left Protestant Action.
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To most the invention of the bicycle was by the German Baron Karl von Drais, who rode his 1816 machine while collecting taxes from his tenants. He patented his "draisine" (or "draisienne"), a "pushbike" powered by the action of the rider's feet pushing against the ground. Reports of early forebears of the bicycle were velocipedes, and included many human-powered vehicles. One, the scooter-like dandy horse or celerifere of the French Comte de Sivrac, dating to 1790, was long cited as the earliest bicycle, however, most historians now believe these unsteerable hobby-horses probably never existed, but were made up by Louis Baudry de Saunier, a 19th-century French bicycle historian.
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Tucker bag is a traditional Australian term for a storage bag used by travellers in the outback, typically a swagman or bushman, for carrying subsistence food. In its basic design a tucker bag is a pouch or bag with a single entry typically closed with a drawstring, and may have been made of leather or oilskin. Swagman (1904 Australian postcard) "Sundowner" could be applied derogatively as meaning one who arrives at a station too late to do any useful work, but still expects a feed and top-up of the tuckerbag. The tucker bag should not be confused with the swag, also carried by outback travellers, whether on foot, horse or pushbike, which may have comprised blankets (usually blue, hence "bluey", another name for a swag), waterproof sheet, personal effects, and basic cooking implements such as a billy.
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A music video was created for the song in 1970, which depicted the band and friends riding bicycles through the streets of Melbourne. Filmed in black and white, it was notable for scenes involving a procession of bicycles (including a penny farthing) and rollerskaters on a busy six-lane Melbourne arterial road, and a scene of four members of the band 'riding' a tandem bicycle atop a car transporter travelling at speed across the King Street Bridge (Melbourne). The song was used in a sketch by Paul Hogan in The Paul Hogan Show, which parodied the promotional film, and featured regular cast member Delvene Delaney Australia's Young Talent Time also performed "The Pushbike Song" during one of their episodes in 1986. The Australian children's show Play School recorded a version of this song for the album There's A Bear In There, sung by Philip Quast.
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20 Fantastic Hits is a compilation album that reached number 1 in the UK. It is a notable album in that it was the first ever - and ultimately most successful - LP by compilation label Arcade Records. #Rod Stewart - Maggie May #The Osmonds - One Bad Apple #The Mixtures - The Pushbike Song #Melanie - Brand New Key #Vanity Fare - Early in the Morning #Slade - Coz I Luv You #The Piglets - Johnny Reggae #Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon - Blame it On the Pony Express #The Bee Gees - My World #Dawn - Candida #The New Seekers - Beg, Steal or Borrow #The Delfonics - La La Means I Love You #The Hollies - The Baby #Donny Osmond - Puppy Love #Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) #Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine #Barry Ryan - Can't Let You Go #Daniel Boone - Beautiful Sunday #Melanie - What Have They Done To My Song Ma? #Chelsea Football Club - Blue Is The Colour A second and third volume were subsequently released.
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