I have a quick Birdy question that I'll just dump into this thread.

I was talking recently with a bike shop employee about Birdy's. This shop used to carry them, doesn't any longer. I mentioned that I was still very keen to test ride a Birdy using the sport stem, but that I'd have to make a trip to New York to do so. The person replied: "But you realize that the Birdy you'd get in America is nothing like the one that you'd get if you bought one in Germany." She was implying that there's a difference in build quality, and that the bikes are being made in different locations, at different quality levels.

Is there any truth to that? I thought they had always been made by Pacific, in the far east, and still are being made by them there. She's exclusively in the Tern/Brompton business now, by the way, so she might have a vested interest in stamping out my Birdy curiosity.