Originally Posted By: SLCraig
Originally Posted By: oilboy123
Aren't Gary Fisher bikes made in the US?
Fisher is part of the Trek umbrella, which proudly manufactures in Taiwan, so I'm gonna go with no on that one
most treks are chinese now.
when I worked in bike shops in the late 80's, Taiwan was just starting to supplant Japan as the largest bike mfgr; Fuji, Lotus, Bridgestone, Miyata, Shogun were big back then, all japanese. Trek and Cdale were different; trek used to have very nice US made reynolds 531 tubed sport bikes w/ investment cast lugs. cdale used to be the only wide range aluminum bike mfgr.
within a few yrs, virtually all Japanese bikes were gone.
now, finding a Taiwan sourced frame is difficult (I ride a Surly, a small US company that gets their frames made in Taiwan)
so, Taiwan is now where Japan was 15 yrs ago, and China has taken the place of Taiwan. I wonder, where does it go from there? India makes bikes also, but they never kept up; they are still very outdated utilitarian designs.