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  • dirkpitt74
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    My Wife ‘test drove’ a new carbon wheelchair the other week and was surprised to see the castor fork was made by Magura from their Carbotecture material:

    Not sure if they’ve used a bike manufacturer for the carbon frame.

    So what other stuff have you come across from bike/component manufacturers that aren’t bike related?
    I’m sure that Hope and Superstar etc. make other stuff.

    dirkpitt74
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    FuzzyWuzzy
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    Fishing stuff and Shimano :p

    scotroutes
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    Park Tools pizza wheel and barbecue tools.

    ferrals
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    Beaten to the obvious shimano and fishing stuff

    Can’t hink of anything else off the top of my head.

    mashr
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    The infamous Campag Corkscrew, and Park Tools TP-2

    yetidave
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    Didn’t superstar put their cnc devices to good work for the NHS? Does this count?

    Lots of crossover in clothes between sailing and horseriding, especially in boots.

    boombang
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    Peugeot made salt and pepper grinders, there was something else they made too but it’s slipped my mind.

    Dark-Side
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    Campagnolo also used to make wheels for Lamborghini.

    IHN
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    The infamous Campag Corkscrew

    I am an owner of one of these, it is great

    stumpy01
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    I don’t think they are specific to the industry, but some of the jacks in the F1 pitlane use Hope components like stems & bars; might have also seen some of the Renthal fatbars too.

    peteimpreza
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    BOA make stuff for medical purposes such as knee braces etc.

    https://www.boafit.com/en-gb/products/medical

    Kuco
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    Came across this the other day from Litespeed I don’t know exactly what input they had or even if they built anything but Mars Rover, Curiosity.

    andrewh
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    Are Manitou forklifts anything to do with the fork people?
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    And most of the tyre companies

    gecko76
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    Manitou make telehandlers. Could JCB start making forks?

    Edit: beaten to it

    neilc
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    Chris King did salt and pepper shakers from hub shells that didn’t pass QC at one point

    Not what the OP asked for, but possibly more in the spirit of the question, the climbing company DMM make things for other companies due to their expertise in forging small aluminium parts. E.g. they make bits for ski bindings for one particular brand (can’t remember who). Probably lots of occurrences of things like this but I’m struggling with bike industry examples.

    Paul-B
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    Manitou make telehandlers. Could JCB start making forks?

    Lord help us if they ever did 😉

    Paul-B
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    Are Manitou forklifts anything to do with the fork people?

    No, they don’t

    isoo
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    I remember seeing a video of Industry Nine where they said their day job is making parts for offshore fiber optic cables, and the bike stuff just happens in between.

    mashr
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    Are Manitou forklifts anything to do with the fork people?

    Manitou make telehandlers. Could JCB start making forks?

    Different companies. Bike Manitou are part of the Hayes group, forklift Manitou are a French company

    mashr
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    Of course Fox do some stuff that isn’t metric

    paton
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    paton
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    Hambini

    paton
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    tomhoward
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    Don’t Easton make baseball bats and hockey sticks?

    Edit, they do.

    paton
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    Michelin
    Continental
    etc

    paton
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    https://www.rideformula.com/
    bike and motorbike

    paton
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    paton
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    paton
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    dyna-ti
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    Chris King did salt and pepper shakers from hub shells that didn’t pass QC at one point

    As did Onza, from headtubes.
    Never really had the same price mark up or resale value the CK ones did, and I think my Onza shakers cost me £7.

    paton
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    tomhoward
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    Someone values their post count…

    wobbliscott
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    Scott and Garmin spring to mind.

    owenh
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    Look started with ski boots didn’t they and then developed the clip less pedals.

    (Whyte and energy drinks 😉)

    footflaps
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    Used to see a lot of Spinergy Wheelchair wheels about, not seen that many recently..

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