Originally Posted by
Bonzo Banana
Anyway I was going to ask if anyone had seen any good videos on the Tern factory or factories. Can't seem to find any.
As far as I have been able to research, there are no Tern factories. This is not unusual in the bicycle world - in fact, most of the bikes down at your LBS were built by a company different from the name on the bike's decal.
It's comparatively rare for a bike company to build inhouse these days - which is why Brompton and Dahon feature their factory videos on Youtube.
I'm pretty sure when Tern started they were buying in frames...
IIRC, Tern's first (& only public?) explanation for the frame failures was 'process problem on a small batch of frames from a subcontractor we no longer use'.