Originally Posted by
Palomar01
Do enlighten us on this....please....
Aluminum was used heavily in aircraft in WW2 back when the chinese were making airplanes from wood.
Later on it was Carbon Fiber and then Titanium that was further developed for aircraft again in the 1960's and 1970's. this at the time when China was just figuring out how to make aluminum airplanes.
But hey, let's all just believe that Trek, Cannondale, Scott, Felt, et all, are just generic frames and the Chinese and Taiwanese taught themselves how to tune high performance bicycle frames on their own.
+1
This isn't racism or anything, but all the dominant Asian countries tend to have a history of taking innovations that were discovered in "western" worlds and refining them to be more effecient and cheap, and then do it better than we did. Nothing wrong with that at all. It's funny how people are bike snobs/alarmists when it comes to CF frames, but I think you would be suprised at how many of those "unsafe" or "cheap" CF are made by the same subcontractors who make the big name bike frames.