A three-wheeled cycle propelled by the arms rather than the legs, used as an alternative to a conventional bicycle by some disabled people.
he completed the 3,200-mile Around Britain Challenge on a specially designed handcycle
Example sentencesExamples
Maclean has already made a difference to local wheelchair athletes by donating a handcycle for them to use.
He also needed a handcycle, which is more or less a bike that wheelchair athletes pedal with their hands.
Although he now has a state of the art handcycle, which he is using on his journey from Brisbane to Melbourne, he said he still felt sentimental towards his old one.
He is now preparing to race a handcycle in London 2012.
The handcycles are the fastest wheelchairs available and you will need to bring a bike helmet if you wish to try your hand at them.
The NSW Wheelchair Sports Association will have handcycles and basketball chairs for you to try out, plus instructions on specialised rules and tactics.
He presented the North Coast Sports Council for the Disabled with the handcycle he used in his first Hawaiian Iron Man.
'So I thought about how I could help and decided that even though I still feel sentimental about this handcycle that the kids here would use it more,' he said.
He offered him some free training advice if he bought a handcycle from him.
Take the One-Off all-terrain handcycle - a low-slung mountain bike.
With the goal of getting ready for the Hawaii Ironman competition in October of 2004, he dived headlong into a regimen of swimming and road training on both the handcycle and the racing chair.
He was telling me that they'd borrowed a handcycle from Sydney and would love to get one for the kids but that they were just too expensive,' he said.
He found a website that sold handcycles.
This is the handcycle I was in when I completed my first Hawaiian Ironman.
Definition of handcycle in US English:
handcycle
nounˈhan(d)sīk(ə)l
A three-wheeled cycle propelled by the arms rather than the legs, used as an alternative to a conventional bicycle by some disabled people.
when the handcycle was developed in the mid ‘90s he again pursued his dream of completing a triathlon
Example sentencesExamples
He offered him some free training advice if he bought a handcycle from him.
He is now preparing to race a handcycle in London 2012.
He was telling me that they'd borrowed a handcycle from Sydney and would love to get one for the kids but that they were just too expensive,' he said.
With the goal of getting ready for the Hawaii Ironman competition in October of 2004, he dived headlong into a regimen of swimming and road training on both the handcycle and the racing chair.
Maclean has already made a difference to local wheelchair athletes by donating a handcycle for them to use.
This is the handcycle I was in when I completed my first Hawaiian Ironman.
'So I thought about how I could help and decided that even though I still feel sentimental about this handcycle that the kids here would use it more,' he said.
Take the One-Off all-terrain handcycle - a low-slung mountain bike.
The NSW Wheelchair Sports Association will have handcycles and basketball chairs for you to try out, plus instructions on specialised rules and tactics.
He found a website that sold handcycles.
He presented the North Coast Sports Council for the Disabled with the handcycle he used in his first Hawaiian Iron Man.
The handcycles are the fastest wheelchairs available and you will need to bring a bike helmet if you wish to try your hand at them.
He also needed a handcycle, which is more or less a bike that wheelchair athletes pedal with their hands.
Although he now has a state of the art handcycle, which he is using on his journey from Brisbane to Melbourne, he said he still felt sentimental towards his old one.