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• ALCA
  '''Front [[suspension]]''': crossbows cross with [[shock]], ...pported initially by the cheaper two-wheel: the Garelli Mosquito motorized bicycles, while [[Piaggio]] filed in 1946 the legendary [[Vespa]].
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• Bicycle
  ...y into their familiar, current design. Numbering over a billion worldwide. Bicycles provide the principal means of transportation in many regions, are a popula ...to their coinage, nicknaming it the ''[[penny-farthing]]''. The primitive bicycles of this generation were difficult to ride, and the high seat and poor weigh
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• Tre Spade
  ...day. The brothers are also invent a brand, "Three Swords", marked by three cross swords for the tips, and letters [[FB]] in low, which vaguely recalls that ...ich already manufactures gears, thus beginning the production of parts for bicycles. The next step is obvious: as I had done in France, Peugeot, also manufactu
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• Tire
  Because neither bicycles nor automobiles had been invented when Thomson produced his tire, that tire ...mpany]]'' to produce his invention. The invention quickly caught on for [[bicycles]] and was later adapted for use on [[automobile|car]]s. Dunlop is now a sub
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• Electric vehicle
  .... A hypothetical electric vehicle design is [[Personal rapid transit]], a cross between cars and trains optimised for independent travel.
  18 KB (2,741 words) - 15:59, 24 June 2009
• Siata
  ...bombing in 1943. Following the war Siata launched an auxiliary engine for bicycles which was an immediate success and at the same time changed the meaning of ...rame utilizing round, square and oval tubing. At the front there is a Fiat cross member with suspension attached. At the back a Fiat rear-end is used but th
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• Tour de France
  ...s overall time, are available to the first 3 riders to finish the stage or cross an intermediate sprint (see below). As of 2005, the first 3 places to finis ...sual for the entire field to finish in a single group, taking some time to cross the line, but being credited with the same time as the stage winner.
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• Geneva
  ...e of the initial headquarters of the '''International Committee of the Red Cross''' before that. Although the United Nations is now headquartered in New Yo A social organization called [http://www.geneveroule.ch/ Genève Roule] lends bicycles free of charge for the day, from 30 April through 30 October. A passport or
  50 KB (8,151 words) - 14:44, 9 August 2009

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