'Chain Bike Corp of Rockaway Beach, New York'. Cycles Usa, Inc., Defendant-appellee, 765 F.2d 1502 (11th Cir. ^ 'Ross Bicycles, Inc., Plaintiff-appellant, v.'A Blue Ross 10-Speed Isn't Hard to Find A Bomber Who Rode It Is'. Bicycle Retailer, June 5, 2013, Lynette Carpiet. ^ a b 'Engineer behind Ross Bicycles remembered'.'History of the ROSS Bicycles Company 1946 - 1989'. 'ON YOUR OWN Bicycle Oldies Are Making Good'. ^ a b Moynihan, Colin (March 15, 2008).'ROSS BICYCLES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ^ a b c United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.'Ross Bicycle Files For Bankruptcy - U.S. ^ a b c Moylan, Tom (February 11, 1988).Its basic look constitutes 'a total shift in image' for the industry.' By 1989, Nyle Nims, at the time a vice president at Ross Bicycles (and later founder of Cycle Force Group), said 40 percent of bicycle sales were mountain bikes, adding 'we see a lot of people who previously owned the dropped bar, 10-speed bike buying the wide-tire bikes, they are people who don't want to ride fast they want to ride for recreation.' References With the rising popularity of mountain bikes, Randy Ross, Sherwood Ross's son and executive vice president of Ross Bicycles Inc., said in the New York Times 'these bikes are one of the biggest things that ever happened to the biking industry. Ross moved bicycle production to Taiwan in 1986 to keep the margins profitable, but the government contracts and financial strain from the Allentown factories unsuccessful government endeavors, led to Ross Bicycles filling for bankruptcy protection in 1988. The Allentown factory was said to be retooled for government contracts by Sherwood Ross. This was the first bike Ross had built in Allentown with cantilever brakes. Jim was also involved in the Force 1 frame development. Jim Redcay was the builder (Tom Kellogg was working on Road Bikes). In early 1982 Ross Signature (hand made bike department) was making custom Mountain bikes. Ross introduced their first production MTB, the Force 1, during the first Interbike Show in October 1982 the bikes name was later changed to the Mt. Ross had models that directly competed with the Schwinn Side Winder called the Ross Diamond Cruiser. In 1983, Randy Ross created the first mountain bike race team, the Ross Indians. In 1982, Ross Bicycles was the first ever bicycle manufacturer to mass produce the mountain bike. on May 21, 1982, and in 1973 manufacturing was moved to a new, purpose-built plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company moved to Beach 79th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens (now Far Rockaway) some time around 1960, the company was renamed Ross Bicycles Inc. Ross' first factory was on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, New York, near the Schaefer Brewery and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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