Inventor Gary Klein can be considered an innovator of the oversized tube aluminum bicycle, which is now a fixture in the cycling market. He first developed the concept in 1973 as part of the Independent Activities Period aluminum bicycle project at MIT, where he was an engineering student and bicycle racer, then took the concept commercial after graduation. Wikipedia
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