Volume 4 Chapter 39 - Multi speed racing bicycle (1/2)

Now that the fall season was here, it was time for the annual bicycle race.

Old man Sarkozy came out early and rode his Frestech Brand male style twenty eight bicycle that he had bought a year ago. He left Mexilan Village and headed down the Falling Rain Road.

There were many people who had woken up early to ride their bicycles like him. When they left the village, they gathered around old man Sarkozy and they headed towards the start of the race, Banta City that was over forty kilometers away.

With Mexilan Village becoming smaller behind them, Sam who had been riding by old man Sarkozy’s side the entire time couldn’t help saying, “Hey, old man, are you really planning on entering the bicycle race with this broken twenty eight style bicycle?”

Old man Sarkozy looked at this younger generation that he was a bit related to and gave a cold snort, “What? It isn’t good enough?”

“It is…..But just with this bicycle……you can’t ride fast enough at all, what race are you going to participate in?” Sam said with knit brows.

Old man Sarkozy said with a smile, “Hey, I’m not like you young people, doing this to win. I just want to exercise, I don’t care if I can win or not, it’s already good if I can make it to the end.”

“Oh…..that is more like it.” Sam nodded, “But if you want to exercise, there’s no need to ride this very heavy model twenty eight bicycle. Look at how light mine is, it’s so light and easy to ride.”

As if to prove himself, Sam stepped on his pedals and charged away from old man Sarkozy.

Old man Sarkozy shook his head with a smile. After catching up to Sam who had slowed down, he looked at the bicycle underneath him and found that this bicycle didn’t have the Frestech Chamber of Commerce logo.

“Of course, this bicycle is the newly promoted one from the Angelt Chamber of Commerce. The Angelt Chamber of Commerce specializes in bicycles, the bicycle that I’m riding was specially developed for this race. They used the new super light alloy, which makes it ten pounds lighter than the Frestech Brand. Moreover, the shape has been optimized, so it’s easier to ride than the Frestech Brand and naturally much faster.”

Sam proudly pointed behind him.

“Look, there are quite a few people with the Angelt Brand in our village, it’s all for this year’s bicycle race.”

Old man Sarkozy looked back and among the group behind him, there were ten young people from Mexilan Village who raised their hand.

When he looked under them, he found that the bicycles they were riding had the same logo as the bicycle under Sam, they were all from the Angelt Chamber of Commerce.

Old man Sarkozy couldn’t help knitting his brows, “Could it be that the Angelt Brand is better than the Frestech Brand? I don’t believe it.”

Sam laughed, “Old man, you’ve fallen behind. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce is the best magic machine company, the magic machines they produce aren’t all the best. Look, this bicycle is the biggest example.”

Looking at how relaxed Sam looked while riding his bicycle, old man Sarkozy wanted to refute this, but he didn’t know how.

He just thought that it seemed inconceivable that the other magic machine companies would surpass the Frestech Chamber of Commerce one day.

In these years, the people of Banta City were deeply influenced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Everyone was already used to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce being in the absolute lead when it came to magic machines.

In everyone’s hearts, only the Frestech Brand magic machines were the best. The magic machines from other companies were naturally beneath the Frestech Brand.

Although the bicycles couldn’t be considered true magic machines, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed them first. Now that the other companies were surpassing them, it was hard for old man Sarkozy to accept.

“What is hard to accept?” A young person like Sam looked down on old man Sarkozy’s thoughts, “The Frestech Chamber of Commerce is strong, but the world will change. It is normal for them to be surpassed by other companies. Then again, chairman Xu even said that he wants the other companies to surpass the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, what can’t you accept?”

“That’s right, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce hasn’t made a move in several months. From what I can see, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce might just close down soon.” Another young person added.

“They won’t close, but these new companies are all very strong. Moreover, they’ve taken the technology of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so I think they’ll surpass them sooner or later.”

“Un…..this is actually quite good. Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s things are good, they are expensive. If the other companies can make magic machines better than theirs, I think the Frestech Brand would reduce their prices?”

“Right, didn’t chairman Xu say that he wanted more competitors to appear? Then again, with this situation, isn’t this chairman Xu transferring his technology and personally creating his competitors? If it was me, I say that he reaped his own consequences.”

“Right, chairman Xu really is dumb, why did he do this? If he didn’t spread his technology, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would have been able to keep making money, right?”

“You think he’s willing? I heard that it was the king this time…..”

“Shut up!” Old man Sarkozy suddenly shouted in an angry voice, cutting off the discussion of the young people.