1.   Grove became interested in bicycle mechanics after he and his wife saw Greg LeMond race in Washington, D.C.

2.   That might take away from the romance of the two humble bicycle mechanics who conquered the air with little more than their wits and few old tools.

3.   They were bicycle mechanics from Ohio who saw in the principles of bicycles and kites the makings of a flying machine.

4.   When Orville and Wilbur Wright tinkered with the first flight, surely no one complained that it would interfere with their careers as bicycle mechanics.

5.   Sidewalk barbers and bicycle mechanics vanished altogether.