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Cleveland CycleWerks is a privately held motorcycle manufacturer that designs and assembles small displacement retro style café racers and bobbers at its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, relying on offshore manufacturing in China by CPI Motor Company of Taiwan for most components, including frames and the Honda-derived engine used on all models.〔 The company was founded by Scott Colosimo, Jarrod Streng, and Curtis Ray in 2009,〔 who sought partner factories in China after being turned away by US parts suppliers, and government seed money sources. The company aims to fill a gap in the motorcycle marketplace for inexpensive yet stylish motorcycles that riders find technologically accessible, easing customization and maintenance.〔 ==Scott Colosimo== Scott Colosimo grew up in Parma, Ohio, where he began making custom cars and motorcycles in his parents' garage when he was 15 years old.〔 He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, graduating in 2004 with a degree in industrial design.〔〔〔 His first job after graduating from college was at Johnson Controls, where his "quest for perfection" was detrimental; Colosimo said "I couldn't just draw a door handle on a car when the whole car was screwed up. I'd want to draw the door and the seats and the dashboard, and then fix the whole company. It always got me into trouble when I worked for someone else."〔 After Johnson Controls, Colosimo worked as a designer for Dirt Devil, together with his friend Jarrod Streng.〔 While employed by the vacuum cleaner company, Colosimo built custom motorcycle parts surreptitiously after hours in the company facility, discovering that he could build a café racer style custom bike that attracted as many admirers as a "$30,000 Harley" for one tenth the cost.〔 After Colosimo and Streng were laid off from Dirt Devil, they continued to pursue their interest in bikes.〔 In 2008, Colosimo became an adjunct professor at CIA, teaching transportation design.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cleveland CycleWerks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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