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Old 02-09-07 | 09:33 PM
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Bikes: Giant Excursion, Raleigh Sports, Raleigh R.S.W. Compact, Motobecane? and about 20 more! OMG

They use them at the Alcoa Plant that I am currently working at, some of them are pretty ugly in terms of welding. They just got a new fleet of trikes in and the welding looked like a first day student did them But they do have a pretty strong warranty on the frame. FWIW the bike fleet at this particular plant probably numbers close to 100 with all of them being single speed work bikes, about 1/3 or so are trikes. Some are original to the plant which would make them around 20 years old. According to the purchasing agent they buy 5-10 a year on average. My old favorite was the Chicago built Schwinn Heavy Duty with a cantilever frame, I had one for my paper route and still regret selling that yellow monster, it would roll with over 200# of newspapers on board.


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