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Koyote
I refurbish a Schwinn beach cruisers back in the 80’s, I made a paint booth in my dorm room. By all accounts it was a third world setup, made with Hefty trash bags & using rattle can spray paint. What you’re saying makes sense, and intuitively there is no way Schwinn could have continued to manufacture their cruisers in the US. In my original post, I thought it was a supply and demand issue. I was drawing a parallel to Personal Protective Gear, and how people started sewing masks to meet demand. I thought that a tipping point might be reached for manufacturing bike parts and bikes in the US.
Some how I feel like an African buyer of used T-shirts, but instead beach cruisers.