(1) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
(2) Through age 12, nine out of ten bicyclists were probably responsible for the collision; above age 12, probable responsibility decreased in proportion to age; and only 34% of the bicyclists aged 25 years or older were probably responsible.
(3) In a population of 402 motorcyclists and bicyclists, which were treated in the Traumatological Department of the University of Freiburg during 1986, we describe the different cause, spectrum and follow-up of the injuries.
(4) Police reports were compared to the information provided by a hospital monitoring system for children under 15 years old injured as pedestrians and bicyclists by moving motor vehicles in Orange County, California.
(5) Of the 649 emergency room treated bicyclists, 62% were children aged 5-14 and 70% were male.
(6) On the basis of the movements of the vehicles involved, the bicyclist or the bicycle or both was probably responsible for the initiation of more than three fourths of the collisions.
(7) Of 108 elementary schools bicyclists, only two (1.85%) wore helmets.
(8) To increase the helmet use among bicyclists, a law, as in Australia, would be an excellent instrument.
(9) In 1990, the first regulation requiring the use of helmets for bicyclists younger than 16 years of age was passed in Howard County, Maryland.
(10) The curfew ordinances were associated with a 23% reduction in motor vehicle related injury for 13- to 17-year-olds as passengers, drivers, pedestrians, or bicyclists during the curfew hours.
(11) Using an unpublished method developed by Somers, it was estimated that the risk of death from head injury was considerably reduced for helmeted relative to unhelmeted bicyclists, depending on helmet type.
(12) Head trauma is the most frequent cause of death and serious injury among bicyclists.
(13) Alcohol increased the bicyclist's risk of injury from falling more than from collision.
(14) Our study included 212 bicyclists with facial injuries and 319 controls with injuries to other body areas, who were treated in emergency rooms of five Seattle area hospitals over a one-year period.
(15) We collected questionnaire data by mail from 191 recreational bicyclists who reported having fallen and struck their heads in a cycling mishap.
(16) Motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists (bicycle collisions with motor vehicles) became controls for the study.
(17) Seven hundred bicyclists from the street were randomly selected as controls.
(18) To evaluate cycling morbidity, 492 active adult bicyclists from a metropolitan area responded to a survey to determine cycle use and accident patterns.
(19) These data suggest that the child's personality and behavior are weaker risk factors for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries than are family and neighborhood characteristics.
(20) Two- and one-leg extension strengths were compared in 155 female and male, untrained and trained (eight bicyclists, 38 weight-lifters) subjects and in a polio patient with almost no strength in one leg.
Cyclist
Definition:
(n.) A cycler.
Example Sentences:
(1) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(2) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
(3) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
(4) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
(5) It is not just cyclists who will benefit from the new routes.
(6) Eleven male cyclists rode at a high (80% of maximum VO2) and a low (60% of maximum VO2) workrate using each chainring.
(7) The gymnast Louis Smith took individual silver and team bronze at the Olympics and went on to win the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last month, with the cyclist Victoria Pendleton also competing.
(8) But really it's because That's What Real Cyclists Do, along with blowing their noses by shooting snot out of a nostril at high speed, and obsessing over their weight.
(9) A prospective study of risk factors and injury patterns of competitive cyclists in 10 races at altitudes over 1,500 meters was carried out over 4 years.
(10) Cyclists should be encouraged to wear more protective gear.
(11) But Berlin also expects its cyclists to stick to the rules more than London does.
(12) Every time I tried to explain, he spoke over me.” In written evidence, Jamieson said the instructions for dealing with cyclists had been in place for over a year and, while there was no specific policy towards cabinet ministers on bicycles, officers used discretion with figures from the government.
(13) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
(14) While the MPs noted widespread evidence from cycling groups about a sometimes combative approach to cyclists from drivers they said any action must include efforts to improve behaviour by cyclists as well, and a consistent message of mutual respect.
(15) According to these estimations the cyclists sustain 87-95% of maximal aerobic power over one hour, which is a likely value for a 60 min exercise period for top-level athletes.
(16) Boris Johnson has shrugged off calls for an urgent review of cycling safety in London after a man killed on Wednesday night became the fifth cyclist to die in the capital in nine days.
(17) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
(18) Janet said the other cyclist was named Chris and was a father of five.
(19) Now it organises weekly recreational group rides through quieter districts that have sometimes attracted hundreds of cyclists.
(20) Lloyd said improved awareness of cycling safety training might help reduce the number of deaths, along with better education for younger cyclists.