Giant founder strives to 'be the only one, not the first one'

King Liu is known throughout Taiwan and around the globe as the founder of the world's largest bicycle manufacturer, Giant Bicycles. Not only is he a successful tycoon, the avid cyclist has biked the over 1,000-kilometer trek around Taiwan twice at the ripe ages of 73 and 79, and rode a bicycle the more-than-700 km from Beijing to Shanghai at the age of 75.

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