American Indian bicycles

[Stephen2014]

Are there any bike companies, framebuilders etc of the original Americans?

[dave thompson]

Are you asking if there are bicycles built by Native Americans or about the brand 'Indian'?

[fiamme red]

Does an Indian bicycle made in America (Springfield, Mass.) count? :)

http://oldbike.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/1920_indian_bicycle_ad.jpg

[Stephen2014]

That's good too, but I meant like the Navajo nation for example.

[alexstar]

I believe Russ Denny is of Native American heritage. He builds under his own name, under contract for other brands (Ritte for example), and restarted the FUSO brand fairly recently.

[christian]

Jon Norstog is presumably Norwegian by ancestry, but he used to build those Muttonmaster bikes for use on the Navajo reservation. Don't know if he still builds 'em now that he's up in Idaho.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/153/409434412_c3cb0bc025_z.jpg

[sg8357]

Native Americans aren't Native to North America, here are actual Americans welcoming an early immigrant . :)

[bikinchris]

If you go far enough back all nations were one land mass. Twice. Animal life moved back and forth until the land mass broke up and rejoined, moved again back and forth, then broke up again.
I think calling them native Americans is fair. They were here long before any Europeans came here.

[Gummee]

Russ Denny is the only one I know of, but I haven't really made a study of the origins of any of the builders I've heard of.

He did my last track frame.

Still miss that bike

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[MattTuck]

Semi on topic, I really dig pacific northwest art. I also really want a Hampsten.

If I am lucky enough to pull the trigger on a Hampsten (based in Seattle) I'm going to try really hard to get a small illustration of a totem somewhere on the frame.