Originally Posted by gus6464

How Giant makes their brand frames is a trade secret. Same thing goes for how Specialized orders their frames from Merida and so on. If Specialized found out that some of their trade secrets were on no-name frames they would sue the OEM to high heavens. It is very easy to call up any of those OEM's and say you want a bunch of cheap carbon frames for your Palomar bike brand. Now to think that your cheap frames are going to be the same as their high-end clients is just silly.