Good article on NPR about a slice of USA domestic bike production. Exec summary: After his grandfather went over the bars overbraking the front, he developed one-hand braking for both brakes ("linked braking" in Honda-speak, first used on their VFR, took a while to work out the bugs), but a hard sell, partly because few bikes made in USA any more. He tooled up to make kids bikes in Seymour Indiana (a good town for it, a smallish town but home to things like Seymour (Sumitomo) tubing, at least in the 1990s), with a lean but high-tech operation; Laser cutting of tubes and robotic welding, very few assembly workers. It's working, but his kids bikes are multiples in price over Chinese made competitors at wallymart. He's asking for Trump to implement (BIG) tariffs on the steel and aluminum coming in on import bikes.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/29/nx-s1...ffs-opposition