This small scene of friends making things for friends, parked under fairy tale mountains, harkens a time when every company was manufacturing right around the corner from its storefront. It’s a romantic ideal, probably even more so because bicycle manufacturing’s moved almost entirely overseas in the last 20 years. And, if like me, you’re worried about the climate, our bikes being welded en masse in a faraway land with dubious human rights and environmental records is intuitively troubling. But the truth, as I’ll learn, is far more complex than my intuition knows.
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