Originally Posted by
Inertianinja
it's an interesting thing, in that it's so hotly debated on forums like these. people are constantly comparing frames - and the country of origin is usually part of the debate....but apparently on no objective basis.
It would be hard to get data that was truly "objective".
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.