Maurice rides his bike all over selling lemonade, while Lotta rides her bike collecting sticks as she goes; they ride different routes and are completely unaware of each other--until their bikes are wrecked and they meet at Sid's who has turned their damaged bikes into a one tandem bike, and a friendship is born.

Franklin gets discouraged when everyone but him can ride their bikes without training wheels

While on bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery

"When ten-year-old Roosevelt Banks discovers that his two best friends are planning a bike & camping trip, he wants more than anything to go along. There's just one problem--he doesn't have a bike. Roosevelt's parents agree to buy him a new bike if he can manage to be good for two whole weeks. How can Roosevelt be good and be the same fun guy his friends want on the camping trip?"--

Vera is riding her new bicycle in the school yard, when she discovers there's no one there to help her brake to stop herself

Tom tells all about his bicycle, his ride to work past trucks, cars, and even elephants, and his job as a circus performer.

Lateef, a poor young boy living in a village in western Nigeria, works hard so he can rent a bicycle and ride with the other boys

Ben rides his new bicycle the very, very long way to school but Adrian Underbite, perhaps the world's largest third-grader, takes the bike anyway and later, when Ben finds Adrian in trouble, he must decide whether or not to help the larcenous bully.

Second-grade detectives Jigsaw, Mila, and their friends follow clues after Old Rusty, a little boy's rattletrap bicycle, is stolen.

When a young rabbit takes the training wheels off his bike, he learns something surprising about his dad.