Originally Posted by
alcjphil
I am pretty familiar with the history of the Schwinn bicycle company. It was a company that relied far too much on its captive USA market and didn't look elsewhere even to a country only a couple hundred miles north of where it was building its bikes
Huh, well they wrote the book on bikes for over 50 years until they didn't, they imploded all on their own and no watered down version of them sold in Canada would have helped.
Few bike companies sold as many bikes, won as many races and captured the public loyalty as they did.
You all had plenty of your own standout builders and brands that did just fine, any move from Schwinn would have been viewed as intrusional and likely not welcome.
They had nothing in common with CCM or any other market filler brand that was so popular and successful there, till they weren't.
You're only right about the current version of Schwinn which is now owned by Pacific cycle and is one of many brands that are different in name only from Taiwan/China and again have nothing to do with the original Schwinn of old.
Even after they imploded, Richard kept the best of it going for a long time and even did a better job of it, some of the very best before and after that.
Not sure what your point could have been, Schwinn's success is well chronicled and without question, no venture north of the US would have changed that one way or the other.