Historic periods marked by increased bicycle enthusiasm, popularity, and sales
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The bike boom or bicycle craze is any of several specific historic periods marked by increased bicycle enthusiasm, popularity, and sales.
Prominent examples include 1819 and 1868, as well as the decades of the 1890s and 1970s – the latter especially in North America – and the 2010s in the United Kingdom.
The bikeboom or bicycle craze is any of several specific historic periods marked by increased bicycle enthusiasm, popularity, and sales. Prominent examples...
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(road bike manufactured for Schwinn by Panasonic Company's bicycle subsidiary Panasonic Cycle Technology in the 1970s) World Voyager (touring bike manufactured...
the advantage of energy efficient transportation led to the American bikeboom of the 1970s. Annual U.S. sales of adult bicycles doubled between 1960...
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels...
be more than the penny-farthings and tricycles combined and caused the bikeboom of the 1890s. Safeties are now characterized by having two wheels of identical –...
bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle. It encompasses the use of human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles...
emergence in the 1990s, the sport benefited greatly from in the 2010s' bikeboom seeing the formation of international clubs and the growth of a strong...
thousands of bikes every day. Bicycle output in the United States grew to over a million units per year by the turn of the 20th century. The boom in bicycle...
advantage of the mountain bikeboom of the 1980s. The demand for mountain bikes caused a steep decline in touring and road bike sales. This allowed manufacturers...
with two spark plugs per cylinder. The Zephyr started the naked/retro bikeboom in the UK and Europe in the early 1990s[opinion] and for a while moved...
in 1974; it was sold in large numbers during the bikeboom of 1972-1975. During the peak bikeboom years (1972–1974), French bicycles were produced in...
interest in recreational bicycling, resulting in the bikeboom. Derailleur-equipped sport bikes or ten speeds inspired by European racing bicycles soon...
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bicycle squad in 1888. With the advent of the safety bicycle and the bikeboom of the 1890s, police bicycles came into widespread use in North American...
the bicycle low. However, between 1965 and 1975 the U.S. experienced a bikeboom. In 1976, to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of the United...
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The history of cycling infrastructure starts from shortly after the bikeboom of the 1880s when the first short stretches of dedicated bicycle infrastructure...
remain in usable condition. Japanese- and French-made frames from the bikeboom are particularly common in North America. These range widely in quality:...
Univega is a bicycle brand created during the bikeboom of the 1970s by Ben Lawee (1926–2002), who founded Lawee Inc. to design, specify, and import bicycles...
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