Originally Posted by
Russ Roth
But they were Taiwan and not Japan by 1992, there was a lugged bike above it that might have still been but the 1992 Perigee I bought with my hard earned lawn mowing dollars wasn't Japanese that I can recall. Still a good bike for getting going. From running across other examples, the previous years all had a clearly different head badge logo, while the rest of the decals were the same style, might have been a result of the switch.
As far as I know, Giant - the Taiwanese company - has never made a bicycle in Japan.
This is a thread about Asian lugged bicycles imported to the US.