Early Days

A Staple of American Manufacturing

This facility served as a critical hub of the American bike industry through the 70s and 80s, supplying popular bike manufacturers in America such as Schwinn, Raleigh, Huffy, and Murray.

It also was contracted to manufacture and assemble components for other brands, including one of the first production mountain bike suspension forks.

Dia-Compe USA

Becoming American-Owned

In 1989, the management in Fletcher would move to purchase the company away from the Japanese ownership establishing Dia-Compe USA as an American-owned and operated company. The most notable innovation to come out of this time period was the introduction of the threadless headset - perhaps one of the most influential bicycle technology patents of all time.

Dia-Compe USA manufactured and shipped the revolutionary Aheadset starting in 1992. 

Aheadset: The Springboard

Introduction of the Threadless Headset

In 1992, Dia-Compe USA introduced the Aheadset, completely rewriting the playbook of how the front end of bicycles would go together. The basic design is used to this day.

Cane Creek

Birth of the Brand

Following the release of the ground-breaking Aheadset, it was decided that a new brand name was needed to celebrate the local origins of the new and innovative components coming out of Fletcher. Dia-Compe USA created the Cane Creek brand in 1995 for this very purpose.

Finding a name for this new premium line was simple; it was locally inspired by the mountain-fed creek that runs near the building. The first all-new product to bear the brand name was the novel and lightweight Air-Driver mountain bike shock.

Needless to say, the Cane Creek brand name stuck. It was simply too powerful to be left as a sub-division. 

Within a year, Dia-Compe USA officially renamed itself Cane Creek Cycling Components. 

No stopping...

The legacy continues

In the last 30 years, we've expanded into nearly every segment of cycling and sought to improve the ride of just about every type of rider.

We’ve smoothed out rough roads with Thudbuster suspension seatposts. We developed the world’s first twin tube shocks for mountain bikes, expanding the range of external tunability offered to riders. We’re pushing expectations with our virtually indestructible eeWings titanium cranks. We’re making gravel riding better with Invert forks and eeSilk+ seatposts. We’re expanding the capabilities of mountain bikes with Tigon - one shock that does the work of two.

And we have no plans of stopping now.