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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 .
A bicycle with front suspension but no rear suspension. [7] Headset The bearing system in the head tube within which the handlebars rotate. [7] [22] Highracer A short wheel base recumbent bicycle with two large wheels, usually between 559 and 622 mm in size. The kind of recumbent most similar to normal road bikes in characteristics.
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
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.
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. By the early 21st century there were more ...
Johnson’s Ladies’ Walking Machine, 1818-1819 The remaining extant model, in the Science Museum, London. Johnson created an improved version of the German Karl Drais's Draisine, the archetypal bicycle. Johnson's pedestrian curricle was patented in London in December 1818, becoming Britain's first bicycle. It featured an elegantly curved ...
European city bike Children riding a bike in Ghana. Cycling, [1] also known as bicycling [2] or biking, [3] is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle. It encompasses the use of human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles.