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Velocite Bikes is a Taiwanese manufacturer of racing bicycle, mountain bike frames, bicycle wheels and other bicycle components. Notable collaboration partners include the National Cheng Kung University, National Center for High-Performance Computing, [1] Oxeon [2] and Acer Inc. [3] [4] [5] Velocite specializes in carbon fiber composite products, but also manufactures bicycle frames and ...
The first bicycle wheels followed the traditions of carriage building: a wooden hub, a fixed steel axle (the bearings were located in the fork ends), wooden spokes and a shrink fitted iron tire. A typical modern wheel has a metal hub, wire tension spokes and a metal or carbon fiber rim which holds a pneumatic rubber tire.
2004 Carbon-fiber cranks for Record and Chorus groups 2005 10-speed Centaur and Chorus shift and brake levers are introduced for flat bar road bikes Fulcrum Wheels, a company owned by Campagnolo, produces wheelsets compatible with Campagnolo and Shimano cassettes. [11] 2006 Hollow external bearing crankset is announced
Gravel and dirt paths are less likely to be harmful to local and global ecosystems. Choosing a bicycle over a fossil fuel emitting vehicle, such as a car, dramatically decreases a person's environmental impact. Fewer harmful chemicals are released into the air, noise pollution is cut down, and carbon emissions decrease. [33]
1988: The company unveils the "Nitro" full-suspension mountain bike after collaboration with Keith Bontrager; 1989: World's first carbon fork, the EMS; 1989: Kestrel is the first company to use higher stiffness, "intermediate modulus" carbon fiber in the 200 EMS. 1989: World's first all-carbon triathlon bike, the KM40
A Florida woman who allegedly snatched a three-year-old boy from his fenced-in yard and ran off down the street last week told the cops she shouldn’t be arrested because she “gave it back ...
Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, said in a new interview his grandfather is “not that active” these days, but he’s still “stubborn” after spending nearly two years in hospice ...
In 1987, Giant introduced the CADEX carbon fiber road bike. Giant became the first bicycle maker to apply computer-aided design and volume production techniques to the production of carbon road bikes. [18] In 1995, Giant designed the first road bicycle with a sloping top tube featuring a smaller rear triangle.