Originally Posted by merziac

So no expert here, but most frames from quality companies were built in the same factories at this time in Japan. Almost all of them are very good quality for production frames, especially when good tubing was used. The Japanese really had it down by this time and most of those frames are still in use today from most of the companies we know and love, Schwinn, Diamond Back, Centurion, Bridgestone, Specialized, Miyata, Univega, Bianchi and the list goes on and on and on. Spacialized had a big hand in this as they sent two of the best in the business in Merz and DiNucci there to get them making quality frames since they had the factories, but didn't understand how to achieve much higher quality in what they were already doing. Once they got it we have 10,000's of well priced quality frames to this day, still do even though production has long since moved to Taiwan where they still make very good quality at pricepoints that are doable and a great value albeit cookie cutter.