Other services include mixing specialist paints and a 'We Build' service to assemble bicycles purchased from Halfords and elsewhere.

Better yet, how about an afternoon assembling bicycles for kids?

Lionel Kiddie City Toys, for example, will assemble bicycles and tricycles for $10 each.

When he left school he worked for the Hercules Cycle and Motor Company, assembling bicycles, and played for his works team on Saturday mornings and for Brookhill Juniors on Sundays.

His father Hassan assembled bicycles and motorcycles and later became a government official.

Since the parts account for nearly as much of the value of a bicycle as the frame, some bike makers say they have little to gain by assembling bicycles in the United States.

He began making parts for bicycles and the following year opened a further workshop to assemble bicycles for G.M.B and Marbru.

Soldiers trained to fire heavy weapons were instead assembling bassinets and bicycles.

Yet by 1986, small enterprises that had assembled bicycles, motorcycles, and radios remained closed.

The two countries have signed an array of agreements in recent months, pledging to work together here in exploring for oil, building low-income housing and assembling tractors and bicycles, among other ventures.