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New steel-frame bike has a sporty history

The red single-speeder is new, but it represents more than 100 years of cycling history. Eddy Merckx won the Tour de France using bikes with the Reynolds framework, and the rear-hub Sachs Torpedo, produced in 1903, was the standard equipment of world champions before the Second World War. (Michele Andina/swissinfo.ch)

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A documentary and animation filmmaker from Bern, Michele studied film at Zurich University of the Arts. He's been a swissinfo.ch video journalist since 2004 and has a special interest in developing new video formats for mobile viewing, mixing animation and documentary styles.

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