{"id":896,"date":"2021-01-22T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2021-01-22T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:31:07","slug":"chris-king-manufacturing-and-soulcraft-bicycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/chris-king-manufacturing-and-soulcraft-bicycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris King Manufacturing and Soulcraft Bicycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-927 \" title=\"chris_king_made_in_america\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Chris King Made In America\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-282x197.jpg 282w, https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-520x362.jpg 520w, https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-20x14.jpg 20w, https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-67x48.jpg 67w, https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Made In America: Chris King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ben Welnak at <a title=\"Mountain Bike Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainbikeradio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mountain Bike Radio<\/a> forwarded me an article on Chris King by Adventure Journal. The article focuses on <a title=\"Chris King Made In America\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adventure-journal.com\/2012\/12\/done-made-in-america-chris-king-bicycle-components\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris King&#8217;s made in America environmentally friendly manufacturing<\/a>. Adventure Journal also did a nice <a title=\"Soulcraft Cycles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adventure-journal.com\/2012\/08\/made-in-america-soulcraft-bicycles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article on handmade builder Soulcraft Bicycles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update 12\/14\/12:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inside Chris King\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-12-14\/portland-bike-maker-sees-made-in-usa-demand-from-overseas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another great article on Chris King<\/a> was also put up by Bloomberg Businessweek. The article talks a lot more in depth about Chris King and has a <a title=\"Chris King Photo gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/photos\/2012-12-14\/a-rare-tour-of-a-rare-business-chris-kings-made-in-usa-bicycle-factory#slide1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo gallery<\/a> of the inside of their manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing about Chris King is business as usual. Especially its successful effort to make the best available products in America in an environmentally sensitive way while treating workers right \u2014 and still making a profit. &#8211; Adventure Journal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on American manufacturing and builders in mountain biking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[11,12,159],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america.jpg",660,460,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-282x197.jpg",282,197,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america.jpg",660,460,false],"large":["https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america-600x418.jpg",600,418,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america.jpg",660,460,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/oldglorymtb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chris_king_made_in_america.jpg",660,460,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"J.A. 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