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Originally Posted by nycduncan
Its hard developing brand loyalty when different brands are made by the same hands ( the same taiwanese factory pumping out multiple brands ).
Design and engineering are different. The factories simply take the jig from the engineers and mass produce. Most frames are dissimilar in a few ways (the odd set of companies do use the same jig for multiple branding, but I don't find it that common)
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