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My bicycle

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My bicycle has two wheels, each seventy centimetres across, so one turn of a wheel carries me about two metres and twenty centimetres.

My bicycle: wheels, diameter cm. One turn m.

wheels: , cm, m.

It has three gears. In the lowest, one turn of the pedals turns the wheel twice; in the highest, four times; the middle one gives three.

gears: turn of the pedals , or turns of the wheel.

gears : pedal turn wheel turns.

On flat ground I pedal about sixty turns a minute in the top gear, which is roughly five hundred and thirty metres a minute, or thirty-two kilometres an hour.

Flat ground, top gear: pedal turns a minute m/min km/h.

flat, , /min: m/min km/h.

It weighs twelve kilos, a bit less than a quarter of me. It is blue where the paint is left, and the bell rings once for a friend and twice for a danger.

Weight kg, a bit less than of me. Blue where the paint is left. Bell: ring friend, rings danger.

kg me. blue (where paint ). bell friend, bell danger.

School is four kilometres away. On the bicycle that is seven and a half minutes; on foot it is fifty. Every schoolday the bicycle gives me back more than an hour.

School: km. Bicycle h min; on foot min. Each schoolday it gives me back min h.

school: km. bike: h ; foot: . schoolday: h.

Letters of words: 585 → 241 → 112.

How to read the signs

  • pi: a circle's rim over its width
  • about
  • is one of
  • times
  • a quarter
  • there is some
  • every
  • the time saved; the difference in time