Originally Posted by
njkayaker
It would be hard to get data that was truly "objective".
Part of the issue isn't where it is made but how carefully it's made. At this point, Taiwan is the epicenter of high volume, high quality bicycle manufacturing (and has been for a while). It isn't in the interest of brands like Specialized, Trek, Cannondale (for their carbon frames, I believe) to have frames built which happen to have statistically significant greater rates of failure.
right. if they were failing, they wouldn't be purchased.
and also, i can't imagine that any factory that is building frames at the volume demanded by Specialized, Bianchi, etc, could be any more "careful" (which is slower, and there are only so many hours in the day) than any other and stay competitive on price.
seeing how the bikes are all about in the same price range, with the same raw materials and components, you'd have to assume that each brand's build process for their high-volume bikes is very similar.