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Source: adventure.howstuffworks.com
1. When did the term "bicycle" first entered into popular usage? In the 1860s in where else but France.
2. The smallest bicycle ever created for adults used silver dollars for wheels.
3. The longest "tandem" bicycle ever built could seat 35 and was almost 67 feet long.
4. A Japanese man by the name of Tsugonobu Mitsuishi stayed stationary on a bicycle for 5 hours and 25 minutes in 1965, making it the world's slow cycling record.
5. The fastest cycling record was achieved by American Olympic cyclist and Ironman triathlon competitor John Howard in 1985, when he reached 152.2 mph.
6. The number of bicycles that can be parked in a single car parking space in a paved lot ranges from 6 to 20.
adventure.howstuffworks.com credits bikewebsite.com, trivia-library.com and DidYouKnow.org for the above trivia.
