1. 纽约时报：You Paid How Much for That Bike?
NO GREASE IN SIGHT At Signature Cycles in Manhattan, above, Grant Salter, a bike fitter, at right in photo, assists Michael Mann. Clients can sip espresso as they shop.
a couple of quotes:
"You have these corporate guys now. I like to say that bicycling is the new golf.
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"... and the most expensive, $23,000 (a carbon time-trial bike sold at Signature Cycles that comes with handmade German wheels at $5,500 a set)."
"Our clients are Wall Street guys, and they don’t want to go back to the office after a visit here and close a $5 million deal all sweaty and smelly."
2. CNN Money ： Silicon Valley's cult ride
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| Spinmeister: Steelman, near his Redwood City, Calif., workshop, makes only about 50 bikes a year. |
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| Hot rod: Steelman welds a bike in his Redwood City workshop. |
a quote: Steelman is somewhat of a cult hero to clients like Kohlberg Kravitz Roberts co-founder George Roberts, Trinity Ventures partner Noel Fenton, and Accel Partners VC and Facebook board member Jim Breyer, who raves that the bikes are "perfectly proportioned."
3. 2009 Ride With Lance raises more than $1.5M towards cancer care, research 每年7届环法自行车赛冠军 Lance Armstrong 都会来多伦多地区搞一次为癌症研究捐款的慈善骑行活动，benefiting Sunnybrook Odette & Grand River 地区癌症中心。RIM 的头，billionaire Jim Balsillie 是每年都去报到的。ticket price ： $20,000 each rider (limited to 60 riders only)
Last Updated: 2010-2-9