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Reinventing the wheel

June 19, 2009

An employee of Sycoline, a local industrial machinery maker, shows off a geared automatic transmission for bicycles at the Entrepreneur Festival, a showcase of new business ideas and new products, at COEX, southern Seoul, yesterday. The geared automatic transmission for bikes, like its counterpart for cars, shifts bicycle gears automatically. It is the first geared automatic transmission for bikes to be sold in Korea. [YONHAP]

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