Gates' bid to reinvent the bicycle

"The chain is probably the only element of the bicycle that hasn't changed in 150 years," says Todd Selden. Selden is an engineer who has been with industrial giant Gates Corporation for 25 years and is now director of Carbon Drive Systems, which produces carbon belts for bicycles. In other words, he's in a decent position to judge a perceived lack of innovation in bike parts.

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