Bicycles
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Henri Desgrange was 38 when he organized the first of these multistage bicycle races in 1903

the Tour de France

200

The 4-letter name of this American bike brand means a long journey, especially a tough one

Trek

300

Colorado Springs is home to one of these banked cycling tracks, built as a training venue for U.S. Olympic cycling teams

a velodrome

400

French gives us this word for a mechanism that shifts gears on a bike by moving the bike's chain

the derailleur

500

A penny dreadful was a violent crime novel in Victorian England; around the same time was the bicycle called a penny this

a penny-farthing