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Old 03-26-12 | 10:07 AM
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Juan Foote
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Bikes: Spec Roubaix SL4, GT Traffic 1.0

Stumbled across a discovery yesterday

I was doing a bit of research on my frame, looking over geometry figures as compared to other frames. As I was looking I came across the Fuji Altamira, which is an exact duplicate to my Felt F series frame. Aside from the fork leg, the two bikes are identical.

Felt makes the claim that the new F series frame was redesigned for the 11 model based on work they did with professional racing team in the previous season. They are open about the fact that the frames are produced in Taiwan, which is pretty much a standard for many of the manufacturers carbon frames. There is a lot of discussion here about various bike makers using Chinese carbon, some just by selection of existing designs based on quality of build.

I know that Fuji does quite a bit of licensing as far as frame tech and geometry. Does anyone know if this frame is licensed from Felt? Or is Felt just blowing smoke and it just so happened that Fuji happened across the same frame from a bulk Taiwanese supplier?
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