Originally Posted by
Azreal911
I hope not. Once they aren't made in england anymore they would start to lose their appeal.
Actually one of the reasons asians love them is because they are "made in england" it's the mystique of it all. Once they find it's made in their own backyard they'll lump it together with the rest and not expect to pay such a price for the item. At that point you'd better have some awesome component groups hanging off your bike and better frame technology to stand out instead of just the name.
Brooks itself has been trying to move alot of their other items back to europe because some questions on their website asked why are they paying european prices for asian manufacturing which is much less.
I think you made some very good points However the Brompton frames are extremely well made under the local process. When Brompton had a brief foray with Neobike in Taiwan, the quality was never quite the same. You would need some premier league Taiwanese manufacturer like Pacific making the frames and then they wouldn't be that cheap in the end with the repatriation of transport costs to ship them outside of Asia.