Custom frames are made in the U.S. Grant Petersen, who, while in charge of American marketing and bicycle design at Bridgestone, developed the XO-series, founded Rivendell in 1994.
Rivendell Bicycle Works was founded by Grant Petersen in 1994 in Walnut Creek California.
Rivendell Bicycle Works now operates out of a 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) office/warehouse in the same town: 2040 North Main Street #19, Walnut Creek, California 94596.
Petersen worked from 1984 to 1994 as Marketing Director for the U.S. division of Bridgestone Cycle, Japan's largest bicycle maker.
Bridgestone closed the U.S. office after ten years when the dollar-to-yen exchange rate fell.