Originally Posted by
miro13car
Burton,many Western brands have factory in China.
BY " Chinese" most people on htis forum and other forums would understand Chinese brands which has nothing to do with Western companies.
I didn't write "made in China".
So you don't undertand terminology here.
Norco for example is made in China, but under Norco managament it is not "Chinese" bike at all.
So advice is:
stay away from WALLMART and Canadian Tire sold bikes.
My two local bicycle shops would never touch such bikes for repair, they call them Chinese brands.
They refer to them as "Chinese brands".
As an example - the brands most commonly found at Canadian Tire would be Shwinn, CCM, Raleigh, and of course their house brand - Supercycle. Unless I`m mistaken, you can trace all of those back to Dorel Recreation. In Canada those are distributed by Dorel Distributing based here in Montreal. They also distribute Cannondale, GT, Mongoose, Iron Horse Pacific. Roadmaste. SURGOI and InSTEP products so unless you want to consider ALL of those brands to be Chinese - I can` t see any reason to call ANY of them Chinese.