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Bicycling

w0nderer

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21. the Taiwan company was called pacific bicycles

Reply to happyslug (Reply #20)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 05:09 AM

Oct 2015

and also now owns (at least as of early last year) Cannondale although they are running cannondale as a separate brand (not a name buy up)

There was also a factory in Taiwan (at that time Giant manufacturing later Giant bicycles) which schwinn used in the later years

that part i did learn from owner of store i worked in which was a Giant dealer

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