bicycle craze

(noun)

A sudden consumer enthusiasm for bicycles during the 1890s, precipitated by improvements in bike design.

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  • Frederick Law Olmsted

Examples of bicycle craze in the following topics:

  • Outdoor Recreation

    • Bicycle riding, camping, baseball, and public parks grew in prominence during the late nineteenth century.
    • The 1890s experienced an enormous bicycle craze, driven by several significant developments in bicycles: the invention of the "safety bicycle" with its chain-drive transmission, whose gear ratios allowed smaller wheels without a concurrent loss of speed; and the subsequent invention of the pneumatic (inflatable air-filled) bicycle tire.
    • By the 1880s, large numbers of visitors took part in the pastime, which was connected to the late Victorian craze for pleasure boating.
    • In the mid-1850s, a baseball craze hit the New York metropolitan area.
    • The Overman Victor Flyer was a popular safety bicycle during the 1890s.
  • Fads

    • A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically.
  • Basic financial statements

    • If the owner of Bill's Bicycle Shop simply buys bicycles from the manufacturer and has them shipped to the shop, the cost of a bicycle is whatever bill paid the manufacturer plus the cost of shipping it to the shop and any labor cost that might be involved in assembling the bicycle before putting it on display for customers to see.
    • The Cost of goods sold shown on the Income Statement (USD 8,000) is the total costs associated with all of the bicycles sold by Bill in the year 2009.
    • (The Sales figure of USD 20,000 is the total of the prices paid by all of the customers who bought bicycles from Bill during the year).
    • For example, see if you can determine what Bill's gross margin and profit would be if he had to sell his bicycles at a discount because of competitive pressure and his sales revenue for the year amounted to USD 17,000 instead of USD 20,000.
  • The MKO

    • (For example, who is more likely to know more about the newest teen-age music groups, the "raddest" skateboarding skills, how to win at the most recent Nintendo game, or how to correctly perform the newest dance craze-a child or his parents?!
  • The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

    • Dance clubs became enormously popular, and classical music, operettas, and folk music were all transformed into popular dance memories to satisfy the public craze for dancing.
    • While there were only a few radio stations in 1920–21, by 1922 the radio craze soon swept the country .
  • Cost-Based Pricing

    • The bicycle divi­sion, which management thought of as Diamond's core business, gen­erated just 10% of total revenues and barely covered its own direct labor and insurance costs.
  • The Configuration of Free Radicals

    • The following illustration shows the decomposition of a bicyclic bridgehead acyl peroxide.
  • Flappers

    • Classical pieces, operettas, and folk music were all transformed into popular dance melodies in order to satiate the public craze for dancing.
    • A brief Black Bottom craze, originating from the Apollo Theater, swept dance halls from 1926 to 1927, replacing the Charleston in popularity.
  • Introduction to Provisioning

    • Wrights' powered flight depended on the existence of internal combustion engines, bicycles, fabric, gliders, metallurgy, and a host of other items.
  • Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

    • Misplaced: Erik couldn't ride his bicycle with a broken leg.
    • [Here, it sounds like the bicycle has a broken leg!]
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