Encouraged to take up business careers by a politician father, Mittal and his two brothers, Rakesh and Rajan, started off trading in bicycle parts and textiles in Ludhiana, their hometown in northern India.

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Shares in car parts and bicycle retailer Halfords were hit after it posted a big drop in annual profits.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his aides and bicycling advocates have been exuberant about the launch of the 6, 000-bicycle Citi Bike network in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn over the past week, hailing the nation's largest municipal bike-share system as an unqualified success.

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Hero was founded by him and his three brothers as a trader of bicycle parts in what is now Pakistan.

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Slow down and look around: when rays of sunlight through the palm-frond roof illuminate a lute maker at work, you have found the Instrument-makers' Souq (Souq Kimakhine), and if you glimpse sparks flying as old bicycle parts are re-fashioned into lanterns, Blacksmiths' Souq (Souq Haddadine) has found you.

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Shimano American shuns cyberspace to sell exclusively to bicycle makers, which install its parts on their frames, and to distributors that supply bike shops.

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Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).

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More than 10 people have attempted to cross different parts of Niagara Falls, some in barrels, one on a bicycle and even one with a washing machine strapped to his back.

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