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Waterford Precision Cycles was a small bicycle manufacturer based in Waterford, Wisconsin. [1] Waterford produced high-end, custom, hand-built, steel-frame bicycles, particularly road , criterium , stage, track, and cyclocross racing bicycles, that ranged in price from about $2,500 to $8,500.
They founded Waterford Precision Cycles, which ceased operations in 2023. [60] In 2003 they employed 18 workers building lightweight bicycles. [61] A Schwinn Voyageur GS hybrid bicycle sold after the company was bought by Pacific Cycle. In late 1997, Questor Partners Fund, led by Jay Alix and Dan Lufkin, purchased Schwinn Bicycles.
In 1993, Richard Schwinn, great-grandson of Ignaz Schwinn, with business partner Marc Muller, purchased the Schwinn Paramount plant in Waterford, Wisconsin, where Paramounts were built since 1980. They founded Waterford Precision Cycles, which produced the Paramount for Schwinn until September 1994 when the line was retired. [7] [8]
Fifty frame-sets were originally fabricated by Tri-Angle Metal Fab in Milton, Vermont, and 50 more were made by Waterford Precision cycles of Waterford, Wisconsin, under the guise of Richard Schwinn (great-grandson of Ignaz Schwinn) and Mark Muller. After that, the CBC built their own in a factory on 363 W. Erie in Chicago.
This page lists notable bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle part manufacturing companies.. Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g., Nishiki), sometimes designing the bike, specifying the equipment, and providing quality control.
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Kingbay riding a Schwinn tandem with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley at the opening celebration of Chicago's first bike lane.. Keith Kingbay (April 30, 1914 – January 16, 1995) was a racer, manufacturer, advocate, and author in bicycling.
It is the house brand of Ben's Cycle and Fitness, a family-owned bicycle shop in the Lincoln Village neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [1] [2] Milwaukee Bicycle Co. frames are manufactured by Waterford Precision Cycles, [1] [3] owned by Richard Schwinn (whose family founded the Schwinn Bicycle Company).