The cycling industry's first bicycletrailer was built by Cannondale in 1971. A touring and a road racing model followed in 1983 and 1984 respectively.

Cannondale gained reputation since then.

Today Cannondale,the leading manufacturer of high-end bicycles, selling more than 80 models in over 70 countries worldwide.

Many of the ideas that keep Cannondale products come from the sponsored athletes on the company's professional racing teams. The company's racers gave advices, and with Cannondale's flexible production processes, new innovations and improvements to existing products resulted.

Those refinements aren't limited to the company's competition-oriented road racing and mountain bikes. The company also produce light-weight recreational bikes as well as its state-of-the-art cycling apparel lines.

There is a company that carries Cannondale.

This company website customers can enjoy free shipping to any of its 60+ stores nationwide. My experiences with this company have been always positive.

A few years ago, we bought an item in the San Francisco store. We had to exchange it in a Michigan store without any glitch whatsoever. I also know someone who had ordered a Cannondale bike directly from the manufacturer and had the bike shipped to a local store of this company to be assembled.

In 1958, The Birth of SCOTT and the Revolution of Ski Poles. The sport of skiing was revolutionized with a technical innovation from Ed Scott, a talented engineer and ski racer living in Sun Valley, Idaho. Ed Scott's invention of the first tapered aluminum ski pole immediately replaced the sport's existing use of bamboo and steel. That revolutionary invention launched a new brand, SCOTT, and fundamentally positioned SCOTT as a technical product leader in the skiing market. Ed Scott's initial vision of technical innovation would serve as the cornerstone company philosophy as the brand matured and expanded to new markets.

In 1986, Scott opened the world's most sophisticated ski pole factory and became the global leader in ski pole production. That same year SCOTT introduced its first mountain bike. In 1989, SCOTT introduced one of the most significant product innovations in the history of bicycling-the aerodynamic handlebar. The handlebar was strategically utilized by American Greg Lemond in his 1989 Tour de France win. In 1992, SCOTT shipped its first full-suspension mountain bikes and later introduced bicycle shoes and helmets. In 1998, SCOTT presents the lightest full-suspension mountain bike industry.

Trek Bicycles have been designing and building some of the world's best road bikes, mountain bikes and more recently children's bikes since 1976. Over the past 25 years Trek have refined and improved their cycle designs and all the time they manage to come up with new innovations.

Novara bicycles, a brand of R.E.I., used for bicycles and accessories. Novara bikes sport primo components from some of the biggest names in the business, including Ritchey, Manitou, Rock Shox, TruVativ and many others.

The K2 Bike company offer a great and simple range of mountain bikes, road racing bikes, touring bikes and hybrid and comfort bicycles. They also do a fantatsic range of aluminum triathlon bicycles that are priced to break some records, not the bank. Add to this BMX bicycles and a great childrens bicycles range - and fantastic backup - and you have the K2 bicycle company.

According to the Marine Bike company website, this company is still owned and run by the same cyclist who started the company 20 years ago.

The company has been recognized year after year, and in 40 countries around the world, for superior designs and unique performance characteristics. That is, for a ride that can only be found on a Marin.

Electra is a Carlsbad, California-based bicycle manufacturer, founded in 1993 by Benno Baenziger and Jeano Erforth. The company builds a wide range of modern cruiser bicycles and helped bring the cruiser bike back into popular use. Today it is one of the most successful bike manufacturers selling through independent bike shops.

Electra advertising in the early days focused on the company's combination of classic looks with more modern features, such as aluminum frames and multiple speeds, with the tagline "Modern cruisers, with modern components, for modern people."