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As an Australian I like American bicycles, the only negative is that I have to own imperial sized tools. I wonder if traditions like that noticeably hurt the ex
by flukus 9y ago
As an Australian I like American bicycles, the only negative is that I have to own imperial sized tools. I wonder if traditions like that noticeably hurt the export market?
- analog31 9y agoI was about to say that American bikes have switched to metric tools, but then I realized that I can't think of a part on a new bike that's actually sourced in the US. There was a brief range of years when Schwinn sourced bikes in the far east (Japan and Taiwan) but still used imperial fasteners on components that were expected to be adjusted by the user, such as the stem and seat height. I have one of those bikes. I work in product development. In general, US manufacturers easily switch to metric when there is a market reason to do so, or simply in the course of normal product turnover.