Garace with his bicycle, collapsed and assembled.
A bicycle was an Earth mode of transportation, consisting of two wheels, and rider-powered pedals.
History and specifics[]
An annual bicycle race, the Tour de France, was held in France starting in 1903 and continued into the 24th century. (DS9 short story: "Barclay Program Nine", ST novel: Articles of the Federation)
The USS Surak's science officer Garace custom-built his own bicycle. In the year 2285, while riding it on Verdee to scout ahead during a planetary survey, he was shot at by Romulans, who managed to knock him out and damage the bike. (TOS comic: "The Trouble with Transporters!")
When the O'Brien family returned to Earth after the Dominion War, Molly O'Brien learned to ride a bike. Miles O'Brien and Keiko O'Brien thought that Jean-Luc Picard and Odo would have disapproved of such an activity. (DS9 novel: Lesser Evil)
In the Kelvin timeline, James T. Kirk spent much of his childhood on a red Photonic two-speed bicycle. His brother Sam had a blue Photonic. (TOS - Starfleet Academy novel: The Gemini Agent)
The bicycle was among the many things Tom Paris loved about Earth's 20th century. (ST reference: Star Trek Cookbook)
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External links[]
- Bicycle article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Bicycle article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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