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Florida-Based Citizen Bike Folding Bike Company Featured in This Week's TIME Magazine

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 09:00 CST

Florida-based folding bike company Citizen Bike Inc. is featured in the February 19th issue of TIME Magazine. The Trends article, "Know When to Fold 'Em" (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1587270-2,00.html) highlights the increasing popularity of folding bikes, with sales having more than tripled in the U.S. in the last three years. Long popular in Japan and Europe and among pilots and boaters, folding bikes, with their characteristic styling, are now turning heads in towns across the country. Due to rising energy costs, traffic congestion and the lure of healthy commuting, everyone from metropolitan hipsters to seasoned RVers are turning to folding bicycles for convenient, carbon-free transportation in record numbers.

Citizen Bike President, Avery Pack, as quoted in TIME, reiterates, "Our philosophy is affordability." Mr. Pack, 29, an avid cyclist, founded Citizen Bike in 2005 to fulfill the need for a lower-cost alternative to the thousand-dollar plus folding bike models sold in the U.S. And starting under $175, a Citizen Bike is indeed affordable as well as functional. The company offers models of folding bicycles appropriate for the casual rider to the more demanding commuter, and TIME focuses on the unmatched affordability of Citizen Bikes. Until recently, folding bikes have been considered high-priced specialty items. Citizen Bike, however, offers folding bikes at a price so that all bike buyers can consider a foldable bicycle as a keen alternative to a traditional bike. And as evinced by the enthusiastic testimonials on www.citizenbike.com, local riders and those as far off as New York, California and Hawaii are extraordinarily satisfied with the great value and convenience of their foldable Citizen Bikes.

Citizen Bike has recently relocated to a larger distribution facility in Pompano Beach, where they ship their distinctive bikes all across the country. In order to deliver incomparable value to its customers, Citizen Bike sells their folding bikes directly from their online store (http://www.citizenbike.com). The bikes ship out daily and arrive on the customer's doorstep. Customers just unpack, unfold and are ready to ride. With a motto of "bikes for going and being human," Citizen Bike offers transportation solutions that are practical, affordable and fun.

Source: Business Wire

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