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2. Schwinn Bicycle Company - Wikipedia

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   Mountain bikes were originally based on Schwinn balloon-tired cruiser bicycles fitted with derailleur gears and called "Klunkers". A few participants began designing and building small numbers of mountain bikes with frames made out of modern butted chrome-molybdenum alloy steel. When the sport's original inventors demonstrated their new frame ...

3. Giant Bicycles - Wikipedia

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   ] A major breakthrough came in 1977 when Giant's chief executive, Tony Lo, negotiated a deal with Schwinn to begin manufacturing bikes as an OEM, manufacturing bicycles to be sold exclusively under other brand names as a private label. As bike sales increased in the U.S., and after workers at the Schwinn plant in Chicago went on strike in 1980 ...

4. Tim Gould - Wikipedia

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   Gould raced for Britain internationally and as a world class pro for the Schwinn Mountain Bike Team, with numerous wins and podium finishes in the Grundig World Cup series. Some of these include first in Chateaux D'oex Switzerland (1991), Second in Mount Snow Vermont (1994) and third at Mammoth Mountain in 1994 behind British Olympian Gary Foord.

5. Mountain bike - Wikipedia

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   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]

6. Bicycle Museum of America - Wikipedia

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   The collection includes one of the modified 1953 Schwinn DX bikes from the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and four bicycles from Robin Williams' collection — a 1992 high-tech Zipp bike and a white-with-polkadots La Carrera Futura 2000. A shaft-drive Elgin proto-type that was owned by Jesse James, and a mountain bike owned by Mickey Mantle ...

7. Mountain biking - Wikipedia

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   Mountain biking (abbr. MTB) is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes.Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain, such as air or coil-sprung shocks used as suspension, larger and wider wheels and tires, stronger frame materials ...