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Cybex International was founded in the late 1960s as "The Cybex Ergometer Company" in Ronkonkoma, New York. It was acquired by Lumex, which was traded publicly on the American Stock Exchange. At that time, it manufactured isokinetic rehabilitation equipment. In 1995, Lumex sold its medical supply business and changed its name to Cybex (AMEX ...
Keene P. Dimick created an exercise bike in 1968. In 1977, Augie Nieto incorporated the company in as Lifecycle, Inc. to sell exercise bikes that were based on Dimick's design. [1] Nieto sold the company to Bally Total Fitness in 1984, who subsequently renamed the company Life Fitness, Inc. [2]
A wireless system that can be retrofitted onto any bicycle was announced in 2016. [12] The front and rear derailleurs remain in place, while a wireless gear-change controller is added to the handlebar, with configuration of the system via an iOS/Android app, and customization can be added to the button controllers via the Bluetooth app. [13]
Cybex is a manufacturer of child safety products (child car seats, strollers, baby carriers). [1] The company was founded in 2005 by Martin Pos in Hong Kong as CYBEX Industrial Ltd . It has been owned by the Chinese child safety manufacturer Goodbaby International since 2014.
This is a list of bicycle-sharing systems, both docked and dockless. As of December 2016, roughly 1,000 cities worldwide have bike-sharing programs. [1] [2] [3] [4]
[2] [3] The City of Montreal then bought PBSC's assets for $11.9 million in February 2014 and created Bixi Montréal, a non-profit entity, to run the bike sharing operations. [4] In 2023, Bixi was the second-most used bicycle sharing system in the U.S. and Canada, behind only the Citi Bikes of New York City, which are modelled after Bixi. [5] [6]
The table below shows cities and towns with more than 40,000 inhabitants (from the projection for 2016 by using the 2007 census data). [1] [2] The population numbers are referring to the inhabitants of the cities themselves, suburbs and the metropolitan area outside the city area are not taken into account.
A VéloSoleX motorized bicycle. A motorized bicycle is a bicycle with an motor or engine and transmission used either to power the vehicle unassisted, or to assist with pedalling. Since it sometimes retains both pedals and a discrete connected drive for rider-powered propulsion, the motorized bicycle is in technical terms a true bicycle, albeit ...