This happened because many children used to place their cards in bicycle spokes, where the cards were easily damaged.

But Angela immediately diffused the situation by attaching a playing card to her daughter's bicycle spokes with a clothes pin.

The Singapore wheel, scheduled for completion in 2005, will be about 100 feet taller than the London wheel, with tension cables that resemble bicycle spokes.

He made these himself from old bicycle spokes.

For bicycle spokes, the spoke length is defined from the flange seat to the thread tip.

Another influence was the practice of placing playing cards found on the street in bicycle spokes in a game known in 1990s San Francisco as Spokepoker.

No one puts baseball cards in their bicycle spokes anymore to hear the flapping sound.

So are bicycle spokes, tree branches and knitting needles.

Ilizarov originally used bicycle spokes.