Originally Posted by
punkncat
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?
Fuji is one of the few companies out there that make their own frames, they also make frames for several other companies. I would say that it is more likely that Felt has their frames made by Fuji than Fuji buying from someone else. With that said, Fuji does make the frames to the other companies specs so it isn't like they just make a generic frame and throw someone's name on it.