Guardian Bikes gets $19M financing to open bike manufacturing facility in USA

[WorldPeas]

>will power what it calls "the first large-scale bicycle frame manufacturing operation in the United States."

first? I can't imagine this is unprecedented, in the early 20th century at least

[aaronbaugher]

It's not clear to me from the article whether the factory will be making entire bikes or just "bike frames" as it says in that sentence. But there were a lot of different bike manufacturers in the early/mid-20th century, and I'd guess most of them made their own frames, so there probably was never one "large-scale bicycle frame" manufacturer.

[Gshaheen]

Stinner is also doing a lot of frame manufacturing in the US: https://www.stinnerframeworks.com/

[klooney]

They make great kids bikes, for the record. Not too heavy for them to lift.