When Trek did move manufacturing to China?

[Trek420]

Doesn't have to be full custom. Customized. Get a Gunnar.

http://gunnarbikes.com/site/

[Pax]

Hey Pax, it's a slippery slope you're on. Next thing you know, you'll be getting a custom made bike... MADE IN THE USA..

My SO is starting to look very worried.

Doesn't have to be full custom. Customized. Get a Gunnar.

http://gunnarbikes.com/site/

Oooooooooooh!!

[Blueberry]

Doesn't have to be full custom. Customized. Get a Gunnar.

http://gunnarbikes.com/site/

Or a Lynskey (made in TN).

[Trek420]

Or a Rodriguez made in the showy Pacific Northwest. Bici, that's what you now have?

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=37103

[Biciclista]

No I have a Davidson, also made in Seattle; but they are equally great bikes.

[Kiwi Stoker]

Some bikes were moved overseas over a period of time.

My Trek T2000 tandem (2005) has made in USA and all the tandems until Trek stopped making them in 2009 were made in the USA.

[Kathi]

Or a Serotta, made in New York state.

[Trek420]

No I have a Davidson, also made in Seattle; but they are equally great bikes.

Yes they are. Burly and Comotion are made here. Of the "major" builders I think Cannondale is made in the good ol' USA?

[pll]

Nah, it seems Cannondale moved production to Taiwan startin in 2009:

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/articl...ilities-21101/

Cannondale was acquired in 2008 (see their wikipedia entry).

I, for one, was bummed. I bought my Synapse (a 2011 model) at the end of 2010 thinking that at least the frame was US made. There is no sticker anywhere that identifies where it was manufactured.

Bike Radars says "Taichung, Taiwan (for coordination of sourcing, testing and quality of Asian suppliers/partners)" which I take to mean that the Taiwanese partner sources the frames from other Asian countries, just like Nike shoes (where the manufacturing partners are Taiwanese and the factories are in Vietnam, China...).

[Owlie]

Yeah. DBF's Cannondale (an old model, from 2005, I think) has "Made in the USA" plastered all over it. I looked at the new ones while at the LBS back home and that certainly isn't the case...

At least Giant is upfront about making their frames in Taiwan. As upfront as anyone is going to be with a small sticker on the back of the seat tube...