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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle18><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>So this is good to know. Cannondale links its fortunes to the guy that
sent 2,800 Americans to their needless deaths in Iraq, not to mention 20,000
devastating injuries and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle18><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Well, keep your bikes. “American made” or not, I won’t buy ‘em.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle18><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Aaron Rubin<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>New York, NY<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;color:black'><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pedaling-President.html">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pedaling-President.html</a></span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<h1><b><font size=5 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;color:black'>Bush Transforms Into Avid
Mountain Biker </nyt_headline></span></font></b><font size=5 color=black><span
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<div id=toolsRight>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></font><font color=black><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Published: November 23, 2006</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>…''He's an avid rider, a fanatic,'' said
Matt Mannelly, president of Bethel, Conn.-based Cannondale, who hadn't
publicized but confirmed what he called an unsolicited gift to Bush a month
ago. ''We also made it very clear we wouldn't do anything to market this
[except of course give an interview to the NYTimes]. To give it to someone like
the president, who's actually going to use it a lot, means a lot to us.'' …</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic'>Means a lot to us, too,
Matt.</span></font></i><span class=EmailStyle18><i><font size=2 color=black
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