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Article: Bicycles Go High-Tech.
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- November 25, 1998
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 26 -- Will electric power be the next big event in the evolution of the bicycle?
Though Schwinn and other big bike makers are banking on it, electric motors are just one way that technology is changing the bicycle at the close of the 20th century.
If there's a bicycle on your shopping list this holiday season, and if you haven't ventured into a bicycle store lately, you may be surprised at what you'll see on two-wheelers these days -- motors, disc brakes, springs, exotic lightweight metals and more.
Technology is transforming the bicycle into a safer, more comfortable, better-performing, ...