A few years ago I had enough spare parts to build up a bike, but needed a frame. After shopping around a bit I settled on Performance's Scattante Aluminum road frame (with a "made in Taiwan" sticker on it) - which btw, rides very nicely for a $200.00 frame and fork. Along the way I was riding the bike paths in Madison County, IL and a cyclist passes me on a Motobecane. What caught my attention was that its frame seemed identical - same teardrop shaped downtube, seat and chain stays the same diameter and bent the same angles in the same places, etc. Don't tell me that those two frames didn't come off the same production line in the same factory.