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Portugal Is Riding a Boom in Bicycles To meet a jump in demand, the country’s bike-making industry is building new factories, hiring workers and dealing with parts shortages. Video No country in the European Union makes more bicycles than Portugal. RTE’s factory churns out about 5,500 bikes a day, but it could produce more if parts arrived quicker.CreditCredit.Rodrigo Cardoso for The New York Times June 2, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET VOUZELA, Portugal Inside a factory set among eucalyptus trees in the Portuguese countryside, workers carefully cut thin strips of sticky carbon fiber and press them into molds. It is slow and painstaking labor. ....