Sentences with phrase «as bicycle wheels»

Taylor's works make use of household materials like broomsticks, Formica, and twine, and make oblique reference to others, such as bicycle wheels.

In addition, the avant - garde «ready - mades» created by Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)- such as Bicycle Wheel (1913, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris), Bottle Rack (1914, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris) and Fountain (1917, copy in Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris)- were also quintessential Dadaism, in that they undermined the conventions of academic art.

Not exact matches

What he had, as he told the cofounders of Selbert Perkins Design, was a new type of bicycle wheel that he felt certain could be a hit at the next Interbike show, which was only about two months off.

The demo cyclist's bike features Spinergy's flagship product, the carbon - composite Rev - x bicycle wheel, as do many of the bikes that line the aisles.

Now, as Spinergy Inc. founder and CEO Martin Connolly tours Interbike, taking in row after flashy row of bicycle frames, wheels, components, and gadgetry, he notes with particular pride the number of booths showcasing Spinergy wheels on their display bikes.

The Spox (rhymes with jokes) wheels look more like standard bicycle wheels, and as such aren't as noticeable as the Rev - x wheels until Connolly points them out.

«I'm working on phasing carbon out of my life,» he tells me as he plucks his infant son, Huxley, from a plastic tub mounted to the front of a clunky - looking three - wheeled bicycle Griffith had brought back from Denmark; he is, naturally, intending to build a better, cooler version of it.

The Volvo was in self - driving mode with a human backup driver at the wheel when it hit 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk, police said.

Your child should wear a helmet whenever she is on anything with wheels, such as a scooter, bicycle, or roller skates.

It is the same as using two extra wheels to learn riding bicycle.

Schwinn has long made quality bicycles and their jogging stroller wheels function as bike does providing all safety features necessary in a jogging stroller.

Riding this scooter requires balance, though any child able to ride a bicycle without training wheels should be able to manage, as long as her feet reach the deck.

Whipple modelled the bicycle as four rigid objects — two wheels, a frame with the rider and the front fork with handlebars — all connected by two axles and a hinge that are acted upon by gravity.

Singer singled out active learning as an educational strategy that research shows is effective, demonstrating the example of a bicycle wheel that could be held by its axis while being spun.

As students analyze the path of the rock embedded in a bicycle wheel, they are engaged in mathematical processes for identifying a specific functional notation for the motion.

A gear ratio is the relationship between one gear and another — such as one gear up where the bicycle pedals are, and the other gear back near the rear wheel, connected by the chain.

«We've changed from conventional steel wheel bearings to low - friction ceramic bearings — now when the car is on jackstands, you can turn the front wheels as easily as spinning a bicycle tire.

[18] Nearly all motorcycles and bicycles use rear - wheel drive as well, either by driveshaft, chain, or belt, since the front wheel is turned for steering, and it would be very difficult and cumbersome to «bend» the drive mechanism around the turn of the front wheel.

And while I've listened to more stories that happened on four wheels, I have some of my own stories on two wheels; it might not be as nostalgic but my first ever mode of transportation (after my rollerblades and bicycle) was a 100cc Kazuma Puppy.

The Island's gentle gradients and shady forest paths are ideally experienced by bicycle, giving you the chance to spot colourful birds as they go about their daily routines, unfazed by the sound of whirring wheels.

«Chocked full of general travel information for first time travelers to Bali, CYCLING BALI: Guidebook to Circumnavigating Bali by Bicycle's real value as a guidebook is its unique focus and elaborate practical detail for those seeking to explore the island on two wheels.»

Bicycles that are 85 cm in length or less are allowed on board as part of your luggage if folded or have the saddle, handlebars and wheels removed.

Using 60 LEDs, 30 for each side of the wheel, the circuit mounts on the bicycle spokes, just like those clacker things we had as kids.

Alexander Calder used materials such as cork, buttons, and string in his work, while Robert Indiana used pieces of found wood and bicycle wheels.

That notion is here realized in a concatenation of such utilitarian objects as a shovel, a bicycle wheel, and a bottle rack.

Featured in this exhibition, Untitled 2005 (The Air Between the Chain - Link Fence and the Broken Bicycle Wheel) was an installation in which the artist addressed governmental control of popular media by installing a low - tech pirate television station within the museum, using a simple metal antenna and cables as broadcasting equipment, accompanied by a small wooden structure housing a television set and chairs.

Marcel Duchamp is usually credited as inventing the readymade, but the essential idea of taking something preexisting and elevating it into art did exist before he created his first one (a bicycle wheel atop a kitchen stool) in 1913: in Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Chair Caning from 1912, for example, the artist collaged a piece of woven chair backing onto a two - dimensional canvas, and before that Degas clothed his Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881) in a real tutu.

The stuff of daily use finds its way into the work of art: from Duchamp's 1913 bicycle wheel to Robert Rauschenberg's 1961 auto - tire combine, from Andy Warhol's 1961 hand - painted advertisement for a water heater to Ashley Bickerton's 1988 self - portrait as a succession of product logos.

Tiravanija's restoration of a powerful museum's traditional role could stand as further irony, like the copy of Marcel Duchamp's bicycle wheel atop the plywood.

Alternating between the objects functions such as in the bicycle work where the wheels of a bicycle are filled with butane gas, which is slowly released as a flame from the wheel's air intake.

Yilin lies with his leg trapped beneath a circular wall of concrete blocks, as a grown man on a child's bicycle wheels over the surface.

Sone is as adept at cobbling together the motorized ski lift, made of wood, cardboard, bicycle wheels, ropes, and chains, that moved through the Santa Monica Museum of Art earlier this year, as he is at carving panoramic models of entire cities out of marble.

As evidenced by the paintings in her current retrospective at the Whitney, she keeps a toolshed of effects and objects — drop shadows, large modernist grids, drips, bicycle wheels, squiggles, text, impasto that rivals cake frosting, and even wallpaper — that appear predetermined to keep every possible idea of «mark - making» alive.

For instance, one painting known as College Fund features a small model of a taxi cab resting on a suitcase with a tip jar filled with coins in the backseat as the shadow reflects onto the wall, while a similar piece titled Freedom Rider depicts a child's bicycle with one wheel in the front, and two wheels in the back, with an American flag sticking out from the backseat.

For the average person, a recumbent bike might seem like a bit of an oddball thing to ride, probably because most of us have grown up riding an upright two - wheeler, not a short bike that you sit down to pedal, but for those who suffer from back or joint pain when riding a conventional bicycle, a recumbent is the answer to getting back spinning some wheels again, and when a third wheel is added to the design, as in a recumbent trike, these low - riding cycles offer increased stability as well.

And in so doing, if Br is to have any impact upon Sr, the only result has got to be that Sr becomes less energetic, just as in the bicycle wheel analogy.

Instead of being an all - in - one drop - in system that puts the motor in either the front or rear wheel, as some companies have been doing, the bimoz setup is a mid-drive system that «can be installed with little effort on any bicycle.»

That's the scenario that Superpedestrian is addressing, as the company's Copenhagen Wheel is designed to be a bolt - on all - in - one electric bicycle conversion.

Even when the wheels fall off your bicycle garden, it can continue life as a stationary garden and a reminder of your preferred mode of transport.

Why road rules evolved such that bicycles have the same rights and responsibilities as four wheeled vehicles.

Thriving cycling cities are also places where riding a bicycle is seen as walking with wheels, rather than running.

DO NOT hang grocery bags or carry loose loads on your handlebars as they can upset the control of your bicycle and prevent you from properly turning your front wheel to avoid a crash.

[170] It has to be remembered that motor vehicles have four wheels, automatic brakes, seatbelts, and the driver is nicely encased in a heavy steel cage and that a person on a bicycle is not in a situation which is the least bit comparable, even if going the same speed as a vehicle.

When a cyclist is riding at night, their bicycle should have a red reflector present on the rear of the bicycle, a light attached to the front of the bicycle, side reflectors on the bicycle wheels, and pedal reflectors as well.

Florida Statute 316.003 defines bicycles as a vehicle with two tandem wheels propelled solely by human control, and all motorized bicycle propelled by a combination of human power and an electric helper motor capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of not more than 20 miles per hour on level ground upon which any person may ride, and including any device generally recognized as a bicycle though equipped with two front or two rear wheels.

Adjusting and installing speed and gear mechanisms, assembling new bicycles, installing and replacing equipment and accessories, such as handlebars, stands, and lights, and aligning wheels are just some of the areas that I am adept at.