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A tandem bicycle or twin is a bicycle (occasionally a tricycle) designed to be ridden by more than one person. The term tandem refers to the seating arrangement (fore ...
It is also known by a variety of other names such as bike taxi, velotaxi, pedicab, bikecab, cyclo, beca, becak, trisikad, sikad, tricycle taxi, trishaw, or hatchback bike. While the rickshaw is pulled by a person on foot, the cycle rickshaw is human-powered by pedaling.
KHS Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer founded in 1974 with main operations in the United States and Taiwan.Its bicycles are distributed in over 30 countries. [1] Although KHS' main focus has been in mountain bikes, it has offerings in road bikes, folding bikes, tandem bikes, cruiser bikes (under the Manhattan brand name), single speed bikes and BMX bikes (under the FreeAgent brand name).
Tandem A bicycle built for two. Strictly only a bike where the riders are positioned in-line, otherwise it is a sociable. Team A group of cyclists working together as part of a competition. Team time trial Riders start in groups or teams, usually of a fixed size. The time of the nth rider of a team counts for the classification for each team ...
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. By the early 21st century there were more ...
Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which two or more animals, machines, or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction. [1] Tandem can also be used more generally to refer to any group of persons or objects working together, not necessarily in line.
Macau still uses tri-wheeled bicycle rickshaw, or riquexó in Portuguese, as Macau was a Portuguese colony in the past. This kind of transportation was very famous until the late 20th century, due to the fact of being a small city and few cars, not so many motorcycles, very bad public transport and no other transport such as train or subway.
TandEM, a space project to explore Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus; Tandem accelerator, see Particle accelerator; Tandem bicycle; Tandem carriage; Tandem-charge, an explosive device or projectile that has two or more stages of detonation; Tandem cell, a type of solar cell; Tandem language learning, a method of language learning