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How Your Frame is Made: Allied Cycle Works Lifts the Curtain on Manufacturing Carbon Fiber Bicycles Over the last two decades, most of the bicycle factories in the United States have closed as manufacturing has shifted to overseas facilities. Currently, 99% of all bicycles are made in just a few factories in Asia. Allied Cycle Works is takings a different path. This new American brand engineers and manufactures its own products, right here in the U.S. While it's rare to get a peak inside the bic