1nterceptor

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/downl...10-08LoRes.pdf

Bicycle Retailer and Industry News put together this map of bike companies' U.S. headquarters and where their products are made. (2009 is the most recent available.) Obviously not every bike brand has made it onto the map, but it gives you a sense just how much foreign manufacturing is dominating the industry and just how global our economy has become.

wahoonc

Which one? The bulk of my bikes were made in Nottingham, England, two more in Birmingham, England... I have a couple that were made in Canada, a few more that were made in Taiwan and one that was made in Holland.

Problem is most components are made somewhere besides the US. I don't know if you could build and entire US bike, and if you did it would be extremely limited.

There are plenty of small builders in the US that build quality bikes. HOWEVER, most people want things as cheaply as possible and will shop price over everything else. We (that is a public we) made the bed now we have to sleep in it, so to speak.

Aaron

bradtx

Interceptor, Since I've sold the Raleigh (Nottingham, England) all of my frames are US made. Groups are Japanese, saddles are from Italy and Taiwan, rims from France and the US, spokes from the US and Switzerland and misc. parts from, well parts unknown, but suspect an Asian country.

Bicycling has always been global.

Brad

billyymc

Earth.

Machka 

Define "foreign".

If you were born and raised in the US ... you have always been a foreigner to me.

Machka 

In answer to the question of where my bicycles were made ...

My bicycle that was stolen was Canadian (Marinoni): https://www.marinoni.qc.ca/
My new titanium bicycle is Taiwanese (Hasa): https://www.hasabike.com.tw/m.htm
My new-to-me touring bicycle is a Shogun, and I'm not sure where they are manufactured, but most likely Japan or Taiwan.

(just to mention 3 of the large collection)


And of course my saddles are Brooks ... UK)

tagaproject6

This "where is the bike made" threads rarely go well :

fishymamba

Cannondale CAAD9. Made in the USA

caloso

I have two that were made in Waterloo, Wisconsin. One that was made in Holland. And two that were made in Taiwan. The frames at least. They were all built up in my garage.

Robert Foster

If you say your bike was made in Asia most of the time you will be right. And it is getting more common every day.

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cannondale-closing-us-production-facilities-21101/

https://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/nation/us-cannondale-bicycle-company-outsourcing-to-asia

fishymamba

I think my bike the CAAD 9 was the last model to be made in the US.

fietsbob

"Made" as in the frame is welded or brazed in,?

or are you meaning where did the parts all get attached to the frame ,
wherever it was made ..

Or where were the majority of the parts attached to the frame made ?

As an example I got a Koga Miyata WTR, frame and fork shipped fromTaiwan to the NL..
there a combination of German, Italian, and Japan/Taiwan/China/Belgian/British parts,
were fitted.

Another mix I made the frame .. Franco Italian materials,
and fitted a different multinational mix of parts.

i could go on, but choose not to ..

Machka 

If this is the meaning, then my Hasa and Shogun were both made in Australia. They were "made" by Rowan.

Retro Grouch 

Yeah, we USAers can be a little egocentric that way. You're probably going to take exception to my definition of "American" too.

Our current bike fleet consists of 4 bike frames made in the US, 2 from Taiwan and 1 (actually a trike) from Australia. Only 1 of the bikes was originally assembled in Taiwan, and it's been completely rebuilt with no original parts other than the frame.

Retro Grouch 

It's been a couple of decades but Bicycling Magazine used to do articles on things like that. At that time there were no manufacturers of bicycle tires in the US so they couldn't assemble an entire US made bike.

Machka 

I'm not taking exception, I actually find it quite funny ... to the OP, and occasionally others, everyone/everything outside the US is "foreign" ... "foreign manufacturing is dominating the industry". And yet from the perspective of those of us who live in countries other than the US, the US is the foreign place. It all depends on where you've lived and travelled.

As it happens Taipei is only 7400 km from where I live, but the US (Los Angeles) is 12,700 km ... so my Taiwanese bicycle was manufactured by a neighbour.

Retro Grouch 

I think that it's funny too and I was born in Des Moines and have lived my whole life in the Midwest. Speaking of which - people in the US, depending on where you were born or live, don't even agree on what constitutes the Midwest.

Is a Honda that was assembled in Ohio, with 70% US and Canadian content and only 20% Japanese content, a foreign car?

RonH

My 2001 Litespeed is from Chattanooga, Tennessee, right down the road from me.
My 2011 Specialized is probably from China or Taiwan.

ron521

I don't think a completely U.S. made bike has been possible since the 70's, when some Schwinns were built in Chicago, with all U.S. parts. Even at the time, they were viewed as heavy and slow (although sturdy) compared to bikes built in other countries. As already pointed out, there have been no U.S. made bicycle tires for decades.

Of the bikes I currently own, the frames are of German, Austrian, Taiwan and Japanese origin. When I moved, I gave away two Triumph (UK) and one Schwinn (Chicago) bikes because I didn't have room to transport them.

bradtx

Using the OP's address, anything outside of the USA's federal or territorial borders is implied.

Brad

bigbadwullf

And Americans that want ridiculous amounts of $ per hour and benefits and this and that are finding out that the 'global' workforce will out-work them. And they wonder why they don't have a job...

phillybill

2 in the US, one in china

fietsbob

The Map is inadequate, and dated, as there should be many more garage level framebuilders listed

they Missed Co Mo, and Bike Friday which builds their bikes in Eugene, and exports to the rest of the world,

and Burly is no longer a domestic manufacturer, the worker owned CoOp went in receivership, bankruptcy .
now private owners of the brand name contracted the product manufacturing out to the Philippines

But even a lightspeed is just a frame, not a bike .

ciao_bella

Looks like my Jamis was made in Taiwan & China.

Sixty Fiver

Those 70's Schwinn bicycles had domestically built frames and forks but many of their other bits were outsourced (like derailleurs)... it is rare that any whole bike that is not from the 40's or a Nottingham Raleigh that can claim to have had all it's components built in one place.

Find some older Raleighs and one will see that every piece was made in the UK and that most of those parts were built by Raleigh... am not sure how far back you have to go to find a Schwinn that could claim to have been built completely from American made parts.

Our 1977 Raleigh 20 does not have a foreign (non UK) made part on it save for a new headset... all it's stock parts were built by Raleigh.

Of course, it is a foreign bike as we are in Canada.