there is a circular back ground bruce with the current BLT went to Taiwan
to try and get a piece of the LHT price niche,
But LHT is following the long established design specs developed by people like Bruce
who developed the touring frame design decades before QBP was started..

so if you have novel build requirements, contact Bruce, the marketing of the Asian
frames just held its own in cost, sounds like the contract is not getting renewed,
the framesets that BG builds himself in Petaluma, continue.
And as the is the hands on builder he can add the details that you wish.