As per title really- trying to check a claim I’ve read, and Google isn’t helping as there was a well known paramilitary of the same name 🤦‍♂️

Anyone know if this is correct and the where/when? I got his biography at Christmas and not read it yet, but it’s marvellous and quirky layout doesn’t offer something useful like an index.

Trek did, Trek made GF branded bikes so perhaps…

https://www.bike-eu.com/home/nieuws/2003/12/trek-closes-facility-in-ireland-1015074

Thanks for that – there’s an earlier article suggesting the Trek deal started in 98 at “a plant that assembled bikes” but doesn’t indicate if it was Fishers plant originally.

@chipps might know?

I can ask him, he’s a friend of a friend.

I can ask him, he’s a friend of a friend.

That’s a very cool name drop.

That’s a very cool name drop.

It all came about because quite a few years ago, I made a new friend (Not Gary) online by gifting him an old band t-shirt (Black Crowes – High as the Moon ‘92 tour).

Thanks for that – there’s an earlier article suggesting the Trek deal started in 98 at “a plant that assembled bikes” but doesn’t indicate if it was Fishers plant originally

Didn’t Fisher go bust/get bought out by Trek sometime after 92 (when the e stay bike broke)?

Seems unlikely he’d invest in an assembly facility in a high wage country when bikes were then getting pumped out of Taiwan.

He wasn’t using Taiwan though, it was all handmade in the US stuff as a selling point. Trek bought hem out (for whatever reason) and did move production to Taiwan alongside their other stuff made there. (From a very hazy memory that is no doubt well out of kilter with what actually happened).

Trek bought klein and GF and proceeded to ruin the brands

They had no interest in the brands, only the technology and/or personnel that came with them. Never liked Trek after they asset stripped so many companies.

I can ask him, he’s a friend of a friend.

The call is out there.

The call is out there.

Amazing, surprising where random curiosity leads you on here!