"It's like wearing a nappy," he says when first strapped in.
I'd take Charlotte, first strapped onto my front in one of those Baby Bjorns and then later in a wagon and around the zoo we'd go.
It was in 1958, it turned out, that he had first strapped on some wooden feet and made huge foot-prints in the mud near where he worked.
Ever since I first strapped a radio to my bag, people have been warning me that the cycle courier is an endangered species.
It was around then, roughly the same era the wheel was invented, that humans first strapped some kind of flat extenders to the bottoms of their feet and traversed the winter landscape by floating atop the snow.
The Marvel cinematic universe has come a long way since Robert Downey Jr first strapped on the suit in 2008's Iron Man and set about offing cartoonish Afghan bad guys.
Anyone in the Cairns tourism industry who might be feeling a sense of panic about the largest destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef since divers first strapped on snorkels is not letting it show.
JOEY LOGANO has been in a hurry since he first strapped himself into a quarter-midget racer at age 6 to tear around the track at Silver City raceway in Meriden.
The All-American bad-ass – son of a dairy farmer, NCAA wrestling champ at the University of Minnesota, the youngest champ in WWE history – first strapped on a set of 4XL gloves in 2008, and within 18 months was heavyweight champion, stopping Randy Couture in a second-round TKO during UFC 91 and Frank Mir, also by TKO in the second round, at UFC 100.
His 67th-floor office in downtown Los Angeles is just 10 miles from the East Los Angeles neighborhood where he first strapped on boxing gloves, at age 6, to spar with his older brother.
When Walt Arfons first strapped a jet engine onto a hot rod, experts thought the car would melt, explode or spin wildly out of control.
