Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina

I'm sorry but your information is not correct.

R&D at Cervelo may be done in CA, and there may even be a frame produced there but most of there carbon work is done in China by a Taiwanese company. This holds true to MOST of the brands you are able to buy in your market.

BB, HDST, chains, der, cassettes, shifters, brakes, rims, hubs, spokes, tires, tubes, cables, housing, seat posts, saddles, bars, stems, bar tape and anything else I've missed are produced, for the most part, in Asia (Campagnolo being the exception). If you are looking at buying a complete bike, odds are it was assembled in Asia and then shipped to your market.

This is the reality of the industry divorced from opinion or emotion. It is fact.

There are many custom frame builders in the US who produce fantastic products that are well worth the price attached (IMHO) but you simply can not avoid Asian manufacturing for the majority of bicycle parts.

Based on this fact it is impossible to say that any bike is made in a single location.

If you choose to buy American you have options, in some areas, but in other areas there simply are no options open to you.