"Back in 2023, iconic frame builder Waterford Bicycle Factory shut its doors. Waterford has a rich history as a premier USA frame building company. Based in Waterford, Wisconsin, this small company produced high-end, custom, hand-built steel-frame bicycles, particularly for road, criterium, stage, track, and cyclocross racing. Waterford was founded in 1993 by Richard Schwinn, the great-grandson of Ignaz Schwinn, the founder of the Schwinn Bicycle Company in 1896."
"Closure: The Final Days of the Waterford Bicycle Factory is a beautifully curated, 240-page photographic essay with all storytelling and photography by Tucker. It's an intimate portrait of domestic manufacturing as told through Tucker's unique perspective from growing up in the shop to co-managing it until its closure in 2023. It's a beautiful visual narrative that's expressed through amazingly unique portraits. The visuals of well-used machines, processes, and textures have a personality all their own."
Closure: The Final Days of the Waterford Bicycle Factory is a 240-page photographic essay by Tucker Schwinn that chronicles Waterford's 2023 closure. The work presents intimate portraits of domestic framebuilding, showing well-used machines, tools, textures, and the processes shaped by skilled framebuilders and craftspeople. The narrative draws on firsthand perspective from growing up in and co-managing the shop. The first five chapters offer a tour of the factory while the final chapter captures the closure unfolding. The story notes Waterford's founding in 1993 by Richard Schwinn and the later purchase by Colorado's Sanitas Cycles, honoring a Schwinn family legacy in American cycling.
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