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In 2002 Giant signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Satellite Sports Group (a company that then managed the former GT Air Show) to begin manufacturing Giant branded bikes to boost the Giant label. [10] These bikes were priced between $150 and $350, filling in the open entry level price gap that their Mosh labeled high-end bikes could not ...
King Liu (Chinese: 劉金標; born 2 July 1934) is the founder of Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer Giant Bicycles. Liu was not a cyclist himself before founding Giant. [1] However, in 2007, at age 73, he rode around Taiwan on a bicycle, [2] and at age 75 he rode from Beijing to Shanghai. [3]
In 1977 some Nishiki models began to come from Gaint of Taiwan. Over time more models were made by Gaint. Kawamura manufactured frames continued until the 1987, for the 1988 model year. In 1988, Derby International took over the Nishiki brand in the USA. There were no more bicycles from Kawamura and early in 1989 no more bicycles supplied by Giant.
David V. Herlihy Bicycle – The History. 2004; Hans-Erhard Lessing Automobilitaet – Karl Drais und die unglaublichen Anfaenge, 2003 (in German) Pryor Dodge The Bicycle 1996 (French ed 1996, German eds 1997, 2002, 2007) Taylor, Michael (2008). "The Bicycle Boom and the Bicycle Bloc: Cycling and Politics in the 1890s". Indiana Magazine of History.
Porteur bicycles are a kind of cargo bicycle designed for carrying loads on a platform rack attached to the fork.; Butcher's Bikes typically have a basket or storage box mounted within a frame on the front of the bike, and would often feature an advertising sign attached within the main triangle of the bicycle frame.
Bicycle manufacturers usually assign model names to specific designs. These model names are important in determining the intended use, price-range and era of a bicycle. Subcategories
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The 'diamond' frame's central, horizontal top bar forces the rider to swing a leg over the bicycle's seat. A Triumph step-through, ladies', or open frame Dursley Pedersen bicycle circa 1910 A penny-farthing photographed in the Škoda Auto Museum in the Czech Republic A Brompton folding bicycle Bicycle in Victorian Plymouth, England, with a predecessor of the Starley diamond-frame A cantilever ...
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