US small item tariffs.

[Nothin-fancy]

We have Rene Herse for that lightweight retro-pean stuff.

Holy cow. I had never checked out Rene Herse stuff as it always seemed like it was overpriced copies of stuff that had it's copyright expire. Went to the website and my suspicions were definitely confirmed...

And the original stuff was uggo and expensive... $900 for a 9-11s friction derailleur. Most every derailleur made since the introduction 130 spacing will friction shift out to 11s with the correct shifters and jockey's.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

They'll be building the Vintage Bike Part factories shortly

A big, beautiful factory, one of thousands of factories to open up here, and they contacted me and they said "Sir, please can we open our factory, your country is so hot right now and we want to be a part of it" and they are just one of many, one of thousands. Campy Deltas. I don't even know that means, but they tell me everybody wants to get some, and they'll be getting them from us. Thousands of factories. There might be more even, some say, hundreds of thousands which I think is more likely. There are numbers of vintage bike factories coming here, numbers, ocean numbers, the likes of which have never been seen before.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

The US doesn't have anything I want

It has nice neighbours.

 

[Nothin-fancy]

the Big beautiful BIKE parts bill...

 

[Retrorockit]

Very few bikes in the US have Campy parts. Mostly MTB based stuff here. Road bikes never caught on very much. Once upon a time Schwinn made more bicycles than everyone else combined. Trek used to build here. There are some hand made metal MTBs made.

$900 for a 9-11s friction derailleur.

I'm afraid the derailleur is "friction", but the shifter is indexed (duh) It's not specified because it's custom made for the desired number of speeds, and gear spacing of your particular cassette. Well probably not yours.

 

[Canuk]

We have Rene Herse for that lightweight retro-pean stuff.

Hahahs! Rene Herse USA: overpriced, knocked up in China, re-imported copycat old toot.

Who on earth would buy such inimitable garbage, when you can have the real thing, designed, built and hand crafted by probably the greatest bicycling craftsman that ever drew breath, in France. Some things just deserve to fail. RH US is one of em.