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3 Highly Unusual Bicycle Business Success Stories

Original: 3 Highly Unusual Bicycle Business Success Stories

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Tue, 2009-11-10 14:58.

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1. How to make nearly a million dollars, selling unicycles



http://www.unicycle.com

Unicycling enthusiast John Drummond, a technical writer at IBM, decided it might be fun to sell a few cycles over the Internet. Seven months after unicycle.com debuted in 1999, Drummond, of Marietta, Ga., was so overwhelmed by demand that he enliste y early-20th-century furniture design -- with mechanical chops he began polishing at age 10, Gregg sells his pieces on bikefurniture.com and through a smattering of retailers.

Creations such as the Milano lounge chair (pictured), $400, blend steel hardware and rubber upholstery -- made from inner tubes -- with swooping, organic curves. Gregg has been making the furniture since 1991, but it wasn't until 2004 that ...read on.