Where has my bicycle been made?

Maybe, once in a while, you ask yourself which is the truly origin country of your bicycle. There are many reasons to do this, from simple curiosity to the desire to know where the technology enabling us to live the joys associated with cycling is actually located!

As you can see in the table below, Asia is the number one producer of bicycles, even though Europe still has a monopoly regarding the number of brands. In fact, the vast majority of companies from the Old World outsourced their production towards facilities in Taiwan and China, the only models produced “in house” being high-end bicycles. However, the present situation should not represent a surprise as Japan hosts three carbon suppliers, providing 80% of this material worldwide, in a variety of industries, from aeronautics to the sports equipments.