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THE SMALLEST OF BIRDS IS A BIKE
Almost hidden amongst all the well known brands there was a small booth with a suitcase and a yellow folding bike, that caught my attention - because the bike was made from Carbon Fibre, and we like carbon bre... Cards were exchanged after a short conversation about the Hummingbird folding bicycle and Harvey and I continued around the show.
After a brief exchange of emails, I was heading to see the Hummingbird guys and the story had got a whole lot more interesting. Hummingbird is based at Prodrive in Banbury, the home of Aston Martin Racing. Prodrive is one of the world’s leading race technology companies and has been responsible for preparing world beating race and rally cars for decades, but what most people don’t know is their technology side develops and manufactures parts for most of the big car brands, including Jaguar Land
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