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  • Schleich Has Teamed up with Pony Magazine
    May 13, 2013

    Schleich has teamed up with Pony Magazine and Horse and Rider publisher DJ Murphy to reach more than half a million children over the summer period. Magazine content will promote its collection of pony and horse figures. The May edition ...

    Tags: Schleich, Pony Magazine, Toys

  • More and More Commuters Choose Bikes
    May 10, 2013

    Perhaps it's the growing network of bike paths, trails and green lanes. Or Chicagoans coming to the realization that it takes longer to drive somewhere than to bike. But retailers we visited on day two of the Dealer Tour report a growing ...

    Tags: bike paths, bike

  • How to Make Your Lawn Through a Dry Spell
    May 6, 2013

    With states in the Midwest bracing for flooding and a rare May snowstorm predicted in the Plains states, other parts of the country have been unusually dry this spring. It's been a tough start to the growing season for some lawns. During ...

    Tags: Agriculture

  • Federal Officials Have Seized 10 Web Domains
    May 6, 2013

    Federal officials have seized 10 web domains that were allegedly selling counterfeit products including Specialized bikes, clothing and shoes. Officials said other bike vendors including SRAM, Cervelo and Pinarello assisted in their ...

    Tags: Feds Seize Website, Phony Bike Gear, Bike Gear

  • Invista Helps Seize 10 Websites That Illegally Sold Trademarked Cycling Apparel
    May 6, 2013

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized 10 websites that illegally sold trademarked cycling apparel and equipment globally. The initiative, which began in 2010, was in ...

    Tags: Invista, Apparel

  • America Unveiled a New Campaign Wednesday Called "Roll Together"
    May 3, 2013

    People for Bikes and Volkswagen of America unveiled a new campaign Wednesday called “Roll Together” that asks cyclists and drivers to be aware of each other on the road as National Bike Month begins. People for Bikes and ...

    Tags: Campaign, Bikes, bike-truck

  • From The Mag: One Chainring to Rule Them All?
    May 2, 2013

    Retailer Tony Farrar is riding in the hills of northern New Mexico with his friends, who are also his customers, when their bikes start making noise and their gears mis-shift. “They always blame me,” said Farrar, owner of Bike ...

    Tags: Retailer, tony Farrar

  • From The Mag: One Chainring to Rule?
    Apr 27, 2013

    Retailer Tony Farrar is riding in the hills of northern New Mexico with his friends, who are also his customers, when their bikes start making noise and their gears mis-shift. "They always blame me," said Farrar, owner of Bike 'N Sport in ...

    Tags: Transportation, bike

  • AGLA Expanded Its Quality of Life...Insurance Products Portfolio
    Apr 27, 2013

    American General Life Insurance Company (AGLA) has expanded its Quality of Life…Insurance products portfolio with the addition of AGLAchoiceGuarantee Plus universal life insurance product. Designed to provide protection for a ...

    Tags: Universal Life Insurance, AGLA

  • Suspension Of The Bicycle !
    Apr 26, 2013

    Bicycle suspension refers to the system or systems used to suspend the rider and all or part of the bicycle. This serves two purposes: to keep the wheels in continuous contact with the ground, improving control, and to isolate the rider and ...

    Tags: Suspension, Bicycle

  • Brakes Of The Bicycle !
    Apr 26, 2013

    Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking. ...

    Tags: Brakes, Bicycle

  • Steering and Seating Of The Bicycle !
    Apr 26, 2013

    The handlebars turn the fork and the front wheel via the stem, which rotates within the headset. Three styles of handlebar are common. Upright handlebars, the norm in Europe and elsewhere until the 1970s, curve gently back toward the rider, ...

    Tags: Steering, Seating, Bicycle

  • Frame of The Bicycle !
    Apr 26, 2013

    The great majority of today's bicycles have a frame with upright seating which looks much like the first chain-driven bike. Such upright bicycles almost always feature the diamond frame, a truss consisting of two triangles: the front ...

    Tags: Frame, Bicycle

  • Performance of The Bicycle !
    Apr 26, 2013

    The bicycle is extraordinarily efficient in both biological and mechanical terms. The bicycle is the most efficient human-powered means of transportation in terms of energy a person must expend to travel a given distance. From a mechanical ...

    Tags: Performance, Bicycle

  • Dynamics of The Bicycle !
    Apr 26, 2013

    A bicycle stays upright while moving forward by being steered so as to keep its center of mass over the wheels. This steering is usually provided by the rider, but under certain conditions may be provided by the bicycle itself. The ...

    Tags: Dynamics, Bicycle