{"id":554,"date":"2007-09-17T22:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T04:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/554"},"modified":"2007-09-17T22:07:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T04:07:28","slug":"business-week-highlights-bicycle-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/business-week-highlights-bicycle-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Week Highlights Bicycle Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font class=\"deck\">With U.S. cycling in decline, bike parts giant Shimano steered the industry in a new direction<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,univers\" class=\"text\">This summer, cyclists in skintight shorts raced through the French countryside in the annual Tour de France. The winner, Alberto Contador, rode to victory on a Trek Madone 6.9 Pro that would cost consumers $8,249.99. Alice Wilkes also bought a Trek bike this summer, but she had a very different experience. Wilkes bought a Trek Lime, which shifts automatically so riders don&#8217;t have to fuss with gears, stops when cyclists pedal backwards (like in the old days), and has a big, comfy seat. It retails for $589.99.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/07_38\/b4050078.htm?chan=search\" target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,univers\" class=\"text\">Full article at businessweek.com<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With U.S. cycling in decline, bike parts giant Shimano steered the industry in a new direction This summer, cyclists in skintight shorts raced through the French countryside in the annual Tour de France. The winner, Alberto Contador, rode to victory <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/business-week-highlights-bicycle-design\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-equipment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}