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Hand colored slide of Anders Beer Wilse riding down a road from Filefjell to Lærdal in 1902, [6] on a bicycle with a frame bag and a box in front. The term bikepacking was used in the May 1973 article Bikepacking Across Alaska and Canada in National Geographic magazine, [7] where the writer Dan Burden described 30 cyclists who had a go on the Hemistour Bicycling Expedition from Alaska to ...
Xtracycle Free Radical as fitted to a Trek 820 MTB donor bike. The extended frame of an Xtracycle allows a cyclist to carry large loads. Xtracycle is the name of a company [1] and the name commonly used for the variety of load-carrying bicycle that results from use of the company's products: the FreeRadical kit. [2]
Univega is a bicycle brand created during the bike boom of the 1970s by Ben Lawee (1926–2002), [1] who founded Lawee Inc. to design, specify, and import bicycles initially manufactured in Italy by Italvega, and subsequently in Japan by Miyata.
Three wheels are used when the bike is in a stroller configuration, and two wheels are used when it is in a bike configuration with the cargo in front of the cyclist. This cargo bike can carry up to 100 lbs (45.4 kg). [7] The stroller bike won the Gold Award at the Eurobike exhibition in 2018 as a special-purpose bike. [8]
Bikepacking on a fatbike in Eastern Oregon USA. Mixed terrain cycle touring (nicknamed rough riding in North America and very occasionally rough stuff in parts of the United Kingdom) is the practice of cycling over a variety of surfaces and topography on a single route, with a single bicycle.
1986: Kestrel's first bicycle, the Kestrel 4000 road bike, is released, featuring all-carbon, fully aerodynamic frame design; 1986: Kestrel is the first in the industry to introduce bladder-molded monocoque carbon structures. 1988: The company unveils the "Nitro" full-suspension mountain bike after collaboration with Keith Bontrager
2020 full suspension mountain bike. A mountain bike (MTB [1]) or mountain bicycle is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling. Mountain bikes share some similarities with other bicycles, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain, which often makes them heavier, more complex and less efficient on smooth surfaces. [2]
This page lists notable bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle part manufacturing companies.. Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g., Nishiki), sometimes designing the bike, specifying the equipment, and providing quality control.