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give_me_hills
07-12-2008, 11:32 PM
Okay, preferably USA or Canada.

Have an IF frame, and would like to build it up with as many truly made in the USA/Canada/Europe parts as possible.

Obviously Chris King Hubs and Headsets. Brooks saddle. What else can I get? Not racist- nothing against them there Asians ;0) just figure I'd support our good ole' blue collar Yanks and Canuks ... and Germans???

GMH
fudgedit
07-12-2008, 11:56 PM
You might try some of this candy (http://www.paulcomp.com/).
fuz
07-13-2008, 08:09 AM
try hope, white industries, white brothers, and oury
rockyrider
07-13-2008, 09:30 AM
You'd have to use Thompson stems and seatposts as there's no way to know for sure where all the bits and pieces of nearly any other product is made.

You must be thinking of an SS as there's virtually no shifty bits that don't have all or some components of the system made in Asia.
davkatreb
07-13-2008, 09:40 AM
Okay, preferably USA or Canada.

and Germans???

GMH
Rohloff for the shifty bits then.
fuz
07-13-2008, 04:33 PM
watch ebay, every once in a while a paul front and rear derailleur goes up for sale. they are usually a pretty good deal at 6 or 7 hundred dollars for the pair!
rockyrider
07-13-2008, 10:06 PM
Too bad they weren't that reliable.
fuz
07-13-2008, 10:39 PM
true, but nothing has looked as nice since
rattlecan
07-15-2008, 02:42 AM
is there a such thing as a 'made in usa' tire? chain? cable/housing? tube? saddle?


my favorite machine shop bits that i like to see on bikes i put effort into creating are hope brakes, white bros forks, king headsets, thompson posts/stems, whipperman chains, profile bmx cranks and hubs, white industry freewheels and eno cranks, s and s couplers...


not a big fan of sram, would rather buy shimano... seems like almost all sram products are really plastic looking and feeling, yuk

eric.
rockhound
07-15-2008, 10:50 AM
try hope, white industries, white brothers, and oury

Yep, it sounds like you want parts from White Industries and White Bros. :D

Stay away from the Black Ops stuff.
RepublicanSS
07-15-2008, 05:34 PM
doesn't paul components still make a rear derailluer?



You'd have to use Thompson stems and seatposts as there's no way to know for sure where all the bits and pieces of nearly any other product is made.

You must be thinking of an SS as there's virtually no shifty bits that don't have all or some components of the system made in Asia.
elisdad
07-15-2008, 05:36 PM
doesn't paul components still make a rear derailluer?

I can't seem to find one at their site.
RepublicanSS
07-16-2008, 06:55 PM
i thought they used too?!
rockyrider
07-16-2008, 07:32 PM
once upon a time
RepublicanSS
07-16-2008, 09:19 PM
yeah baby!!!! my memory served me well. thanks rocky.

do you remember how they performed?



once upon a time
rockyrider
07-16-2008, 09:50 PM
Extremely finicky to setup and tended to need a lot of attention.
LeeMcGough
07-17-2008, 01:16 AM
Extremely finicky to setup and tended to need a lot of attention.

Sure are purdy, though.
rockhound
07-18-2008, 03:03 PM
do you remember how they performed?

HA! You're kidding, right?

My buddy traded an XTR for one right before going for a week long vacation of riding in Colorado...he spent 99% of the trip with a STX rear derailleur (which really pained him 'cause he was a tool) because his Paul derailleur literally exploded.