Who owns bikes that are all made in the USA?

[sokyroadie]

4 of 5
Serotta CXII
Serotta HSG
Keith Lippy
Litespeed

Soma Double Cross

Jeff

[paulandmonster]

winsor pro mexico 1979
holdsworth uk 1981
colnago super italy 1981
bataglin italy 1985
merckx slx belgium chem bank 1986?
merckx 753 1989
milano prototype italy 1990
milano italy 1991
atala sl italy 1980s
colnago superismo italy 1996
colnago technos italy 1998
pogliaghi 1982 campy 50th never ridden italy
colnago mexico 1983 italy
benoto 1981 series 3000 italy
olmo competition full panto 1982 italy
giani mota panto 1982 italy
colnago super 1983 saronni red italy
merckx caloi motorola team frame never built belgium
colnago c40 2002 italy just sold
colnago extreme-c 2007 just built thats my new baby italy

so mostly italian with some belgians which are like italians best ones were the c40 and odly enough the battaglin i beat the crap out of that bike. worst was the merkcx 753 broke at the shift levers and i never wrecked it. gita was no help in getting it fixed or replaced. the ex-c so far is real sweet but havent put enough miles on it yet for full review but i think its going to be my new all time best. the pog was beautiful chrome vip and 50th but i got it never ridden and i couldnt bring myself to do it all though i made a very nice profit on it.

other bikes raced but not owned vitus, willier that beautiful old metalic copper one best looking bike maybe ever wish i could find one now.

[paulandmonster]

my first bike was a gold schwinn sting ray with banana seat and angel bars i remember waiting till i was big enough to ride it.

[djg]

Originally Posted by Sandy

I didn't think we would get so many all made in the USA bikes so quickly.

Made in the USA by my mommy and my daddy,


Simple Sandy

Sandy, my best guess is that if we're talking bikes, not frames, and really counting everything from tires to saddles, the count still stands at zero. Heck, I think that even my "old" CSi frame, designed, brazed, and painted, all by hand in Saratoga Springs, NY, probably had pipes that took a ride on a boat before making their way to NY.

[Russell]

Gunnar Roadie

[Bob Loblaw]

My most American bike is a John Howard, hand-made in California from Italian tubing by Dave Moulton, an expat Brit. It wears mostly Italian componentry with a few bits from Japan and France and tubes and tires designed in Germany and probably manufactured in Asia.

BL

[NHAero]

US made:
Serotta Concours
Litespeed Unicoi
Klein Pulse II

o'er the pond:
in the Rule Britannia dept...
Raleigh 20 folder
1972 Bob Jackson Olympus (the beauty of the fleet)
and across the channel, n'est-ce pas...
1957 OTB (formerly Sheldon's bike, being refurbed into a fixed gear)

[jbrainin]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

isn't the entire rear triangle of a Crumpton an off-the-shelf part from Easton, i.e., a Taiwanese company? Fork too, is my understanding.

I was always under the impression that Crumpton uses carbon fiber tubing and forks from Edge, which last I heard is is all made in the US.

[dsteady]

2008 Serotta Cd'A
2002 Moots Vamoots
2006 Sycip JavaBoy

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by jbrainin

I was always under the impression that Crumpton uses carbon fiber tubing and forks from Edge, which last I heard is is all made in the US.

I must've gotten that Easton tip from this Pez review:

http://pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=3956

...which admittedly is 3 years old, so perhaps Nick has changed his sources? In fact, checking Crumpton's website now, I see that the rear triangle no longer sports the Easton logo nor even the same weave as the Easton portrayed in that Pez review, so it does look like that's probably out-of-date info.

Mea culpa.

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by Hardlyrob

Incoming:
Richard Sachs - sometime in 2013 or 2014? - US, but I don't know where the tubes will come from.

Italy no doubt:

[abqhudson]

Serotta

[bluekudu]

Originally Posted by bluekudu

Dean El Diente. I assume the tubing is US Made, but I could be wrong

I forgot to mention my wife's Moots Vamoots Compact and my son's US made Schwinn Homegrown hard tail

[Sandy]

Originally Posted by djg

Sandy, my best guess is that if we're talking bikes, not frames, and really counting everything from tires to saddles, the count still stands at zero. Heck, I think that even my "old" CSi frame, designed, brazed, and painted, all by hand in Saratoga Springs, NY, probably had pipes that took a ride on a boat before making their way to NY.

I think that you are correct. I was really talking framesets. Possibly just frames, as different forks, not made by the frame builder, are often chosen. In addition, as you said, the tubing may not even be produced in the US. Probably relatively few bikes that have frame, fork, and tubes that are made in the US, and possibly/probably zero bikes that are totally made in the US.

I was made in the US as stated, but my mother came from Russia, so maybe I don't really count as made in the USA.


Sandy

[Waldo]

My most American bike is my Steve Rex made with True Temper tubing. I hope True Temper is made in the States. Otherwise, the Rex is tied with 1975 Masi GC made in Carlsbad, CA and 1975 Peter Johnson made somewhere around Palo Alto.