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Usage examples of cyclists.

Only after 71 policemen from neighboring cities and the Highway Patrol, police dogs and water hoses were brought into action did the cyclists jump on their Harley-Davidsons and roar out of town.

Most cyclists are harmless weekend types, no more dangerous than skiers or skin-divers.

Legend has it that the cyclists literally took over the town, defied the police, manhandled local women, looted the taverns and stomped anyone who got in their way.

Sunday, with a pretty girl trailing behind one, and envious cyclists trying to race you.

Other cyclists arrived, dismounted and stood about, and their flame-lit faces expressed satisfaction, interest, curiositv.

Asiatic flying ships passed overhead, the two cyclists made a dash for cover until the sky was clear.

Cicely had always really enjoyed their walks, they had been the highpoint of her week until Ashlee pointed out the cyclists, then she never enjoyed them again.

Cicely tried to keep the thing about the cyclists from Clive but he heard about it soon enough and his life was ruined too.

But even here in this crescent of chi-chi shops the cyclists were up to their dirty tricks.

Until the pointing out of the cyclists Clive had managed to force himself to enjoy, indeed to revel in, the wild drinkers, the dirt, the litter, the terrible record company tosspots, the whole gritty urban shmeer of north London but the cyclists spoilt it all.

Clive tried shouting at them as they hurtled towards him at thirty miles an hour on the sidewalk but one person more or less, shouting in the middle of the street in Camden Town, at either cyclists or lampposts or imaginary six-foot-high dung beetles, was neither here nor there and nobody took any notice, least of all the cyclists.

He soon found out that the major cause of death amongst cyclists was them being crushed under the wheels of trucks.

It would be much quicker for her to ride the wrong way past the tube station then go against the flow of traffic, up the hill at Parkway, the way she had seen thousands of other cyclists doing.

They came up to a covey of cyclists in bright helmets and jackets, a cycling club on an expedition, and had to pass them very carefully, the long line of riders spread out, so that when there was a bend, it was difficult to see if it was safe to pass.

One is that when the civil population is unarmed, parachutists, cyclists and stray tanks can not only work fearful havoc but draw off large bodies of regular troops who should be opposing the main enemy.