CNC-machined bicycle components made in Burnsville, Minnesota since 2013
✅ Made in USA
Where Wolf Tooth Components products are made
Burnsville, Minnesota
Wolf Tooth Components works out of a 38,000-square-foot building at 3100 West Park Drive in Burnsville, occupied since 2018. Offices, the machine shop, assembly, warehouse and shipping are all under the same roof, shared with sibling bike brand Otso Cycles.
CNC machined from bar stock
Chainrings and pedals are cut from 6061-T6 and 7075-T6 aluminum on the company’s own machines. The Waveform pedal page states plainly: “Machined and Assembled in USA — Waveform Aluminum Pedals are CNC machined here in our Minnesota machine shop.”
Built to be repaired
Every individual part is sold separately — bushings, o-rings, set screws, a single chainring bolt, a bare pedal body — alongside service guides and video tutorials. Waste aluminum and steel from the shop floor are recycled.
Wolf Tooth Components lists origin per product rather than making a blanket claim, and the Tech Specs block on flagship items such as the 104 BCD chainring and the Waveform aluminum pedal reads simply Made in the USA. The company’s own FAQ supplies the qualifier: “The vast majority of our products are made here in Minnesota in our machine shop… We do have a small number of products and sub-components that are sourced nationally and internationally.” The pedals collection page also notes that Premium and MKØ series pedals are machined and assembled in-house, which implies the lower-priced Performance tier may be handled differently. With 2,000-plus SKUs in the catalogue, the right move is to read the Tech Specs on the specific part you are buying rather than assume the whole range is identical.
The story
Wolf Tooth Components started with one part. The company’s illustrated timeline opens on 2013 with the entry “It Started With A Chainring” — a 104 BCD wide-narrow ring built so a mountain bike could run a single chainring up front without dropping the chain. Three engineers were behind it, and for the first stretch the operation ran out of a basement after hours.
The chainring worked, and the timing was right: the bike industry was in the middle of abandoning front derailleurs, and Drop-Stop tooth profiles were what made that switch reliable. The 104 BCD ring is still in the catalogue, still described on its own product page as the part that started everything.
What followed was less a pivot than an accumulation. Waveform and Ripsaw flat pedals, CTRL and ALT clipless pedals, the ReMote dropper lever, the Resolve dropper post, headsets, bottom brackets, Pack Pliers, hand-bent bottle cages, the LoneWolf Aero Chainguide. By 2022 the company was describing 62 full-time employees and more than 2,000 SKUs designed, manufactured, assembled and shipped from Burnsville.
In 2018 the company moved into the 38,000-square-foot Burnsville building it still occupies, sharing it with Otso Cycles, a frame brand the same team founded in 2016. Wolf Tooth Components marked ten years in business in 2023.
Why they matter
Bicycle components are one of the most thoroughly offshored categories in American consumer goods. The overwhelming majority of chainrings, pedals, headsets and bottom brackets sold in the United States are made in Asia, and most of the brands selling them are marketing operations with a spec sheet and a purchase order.
Wolf Tooth Components owns the machines. That distinction shows up in ways a customer can actually feel: parts are cut from bar stock a few hundred feet from the shipping desk, run changes happen quickly, and the company can afford to sell a single replacement bushing because it makes the bushing.
The Right to Repair programme is the part worth dwelling on. Selling every small part individually, with instructions, is the opposite of the disposable-component economics the rest of the industry runs on. It only works if you manufacture domestically and control your own inventory — which is a decent argument for why domestic manufacturing is worth paying for.
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Frequently asked questions
Where are Wolf Tooth Components parts made?
In the company’s own 38,000-square-foot machine shop in Burnsville, Minnesota, just south of Minneapolis. The About page is headed “Made in the USA since 2013,” and flagship product pages list “Made in the USA” in their Tech Specs.
Is every Wolf Tooth Components product made in the USA?
Not quite, and the company says so itself. Its FAQ states that the vast majority of products are made in Minnesota but that “a small number of products and sub-components” are sourced nationally and internationally. Origin is listed per product, so check the Tech Specs on the specific part.
What was Wolf Tooth Components’ first product?
A 104 BCD Drop-Stop chainring, in 2013. It is still sold today, and its product page notes “This chainring started it all for us.”
What warranty does Wolf Tooth Components offer?
One year as standard, two years on the Resolve dropper post, five years on Waveform pedals, and lifetime coverage on Premium Headsets with limited lifetime coverage on bottom bracket bearings.