Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
I agree with everything you said except the comment about no quality control. It is almost a certainty that the frames are both quality controlled and quality assured. There is no reason, whatsoever, to think otherwise, especially in light of your comment about the frames being made by the same technicians with the same training as the name brands. Those technicians and training are exactly where the quality management system resides.
Quality control is not the act of training the technicians to be good technicians. It is actively inspecting a certain subset of your product to ensure the tooling and builds are still within the specified tolerances. This takes time, it takes a different subset of technical skill, and it takes money. It is an active inspection and testing process, and with carbon layup, it is probably a destructive testing process. Good technicians are essential for a good product, but so is a careful monitoring of process drift. You can have extremely skilled technicians, popping product out on an extra shift for extra cash, that goes out the side door of the factory and is never properly accounted for or quality inspected. And, hey, maybe these frames
are quality controlled, but for an internet company with hidden ownership and based in China where there are fewer actively enforced regulations than the US and a somewhat shady legal system, why would you? It's extra expense, lawsuits originating in the US don't touch you, and if something breaks, you save face by being overly generous with replacement product.
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