According to wikiquote (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig), the book itself uses the word "cycle" in

According to wikiquote (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig), the book itself uses the word "cycle" in this sense. For example: > The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. Given that, it seems like a justifiable editing choice, even though it may be a little obscure.