Originally Posted by
carleton
I recall reading an interview or either the top guy from HED or Zipp discussing how they spend millions of dollars designing, developing, and prototyping carbon fiber parts just to have an Asian knock-off shop melt/bake the resin off, expose the layup (the secret), copy the layup, and produce knock-offs within months. Knock-offs that really aren't that bad.
For those wondering...
This is like a company designing and making a jacket then a knockoff company buying ONE of the jackets, cutting away the stiches and identifying all of the little pieces that comprise the jacket, reverse-engineering a blueprint, and using that blueprint to mass produce knockoffs.
That's pretty much how all knockoffs work, shoes, purses, clothing, etc...