The thread about our miles to date got me looking at my mileage spreadsheet.  I noticed that I am now owning 5 US made bikes and one French bike.  In order of snazz:

2007 TiCycles road bike  (US)
2011 TiCycles fix gear  (US)
1979 Peter Mooney road bike  (US)
1983 Trek 420  (US)
1989(?) Peugeot (fillet brazed 501 tubing)  (French)
1980(?) Schwinn LeTour (Chicago)  (US)

In the past, I have owned (chronologically to me:

1967 Peugeot UO8  (French)
1972 Lambert  (English)
1976 Fuji Pro  (Japanese)
1981(?) Schwinn  (Japanese)
1984(?) Sekine  (Japanese)
1986(?) Miyata  (Japanese)
1984(?) Univega race bike (one down from the top)  (Japanese)

(3) changed hands, (4) were ridden into the ground or crashed

Miles on US made bikes lifetime:  41%
Miles on Japanese made bikes lifetime:  31%
Miles on French made bikes lifetime:  17%
Miles on English made bikes lifetime:  11%

I won't claim any of this is significant, but I do find it interesting, especially having a stall of almost entirely US made bikes.  Of course, it isn't hard to see how some of that happened.  Bikes come and go, but customs stay.  And as I get older, I insist more on bikes that really fit and feel right and for me, those are almost always custom.  But the Trek and Schwinn?  The Schwinn was $50 at a garage sale I was at for something else entirely.  The Trek was purchased frame-only after crashing my winter fixie.  It was the best of the bikes I could find that day at several shops.  It is also the best workhorse fixie/commuter/rain bike I have ever owned by quite a lot (though the Peter Mooney would be better if I ever chose to do it).  Funny, that used Trek frame cost me more than the Mooney frame!  The Mooney cost me $450.  (It can pay to go to framebuilders before they "make it".)  The Trek cost me $80.  But, the seatstay caps started cracking though the stay itself.  The repair and repaint cost about $500.

Ben