![]() The Nishiki brand was created in the '60s for Japanese bikes sold in the U.S. Derby opened a Raleigh USA factory in Kent, Washington, and produced bikes for five or six years before shuttering the plant and moving all production to China and Taiwan in the mid-1990s. Anyway, Derby Cycle, a German company, bought the Raleigh Bicycle Company of England and later reacquired the rights to the Raleigh USA name from Huffy. Raleigh USA was a completely separate entity from the original English Raleigh, sort of like how the "GMC Denali" bikes sold by Walmart have no real connection to General Motors Corporation. Sometime around 1980, Huffy licensed the "Raleigh USA" brand to sell bikes for the U.S. Raleigh was originally an English bicycle manufacturer, founded in the late 1800s. But it was Derby Cycle, a German company, making those bikes in China - including ones branded Raleigh USA. ![]() Nishiki, Univega, Diamondback, and Raleigh were all made in China by Raleigh USA.Well, yes, sort of.
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