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Production numbers are often guesswork, especially as mass production moved to Asia and the world moved to riding off road.
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===== Worldwide Bicycle Production  =====

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Mountain bikes drove an 80's boom in bicycle sales.  Graph from: 
[[http://campagnolodelta.blogspot.com/2011/06/american-bicycle-boom.html|campagnolodelta]]

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US Bike sales from 1981->2005. 
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Mt. bikes were 10% of US sales in 1984 and doubled to 20% of US sales by 1985.((See [[https://www.cyclepublishing.com/cyclingbooks/dc.html7The Dancing Chain]] by Frank Berto, page 248))
[[https://www.bicycleretailer.com/opinion-analysis/2020/04/13/vosper-why-2019-was-year-everything-changed|bicycleretailer]]
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