Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Before 2000, I found , when visiting, (88 , 91) decentralized bike companies , frame building shops and retail combined
Making the bikes they sold in their shops.. for the riders in their area..
Individually small, but combined, making a lot of bicycles,
Bob, I was keen on Cycling in the early 1960's ....... and at the time there were so many wonderful frame and Bike parts builders in the UK and Europe ....... and that was part of the interest .......most, if not all, have now gone and the "trade names" have been bought up by our friends in the Far East ......... as other parts of the British manufacturing industry have ......... but the "when I was young" syndrome get's to you the older you get