Originally Posted by
FolderBeholder
Well, if you care to look at it that way (glass half empty) you could, but if market demands/business climate changes leads you to achieve the same goal differently (steel frames, hand brazed...just not on OUR shores) and you survive an ever changing business by evolving than you've approached the problem and evolved to survive.
Would any of us KNOW the difference between a steel frame brazed in Eugene Or., vs one brazed in Taiwan?
(of course longevity is yet to be introduced into this convo but the lifetime warranty is potentially a part of an overlying problem. Warranty might have to become more realistic and in tune with the rest of the industry. 5 yrs frame?)
It's not glass half-empty, lol. It's acknowledging that what is unique has value. MANY of the people who have purchased BF bikes have done so because it is made in the US. We like that it supports US jobs and skills that are disappearing from our shores. Same reason I support Seven bikes. Off-shoring BF would change an essential part of the business. And remove a major reason some of us have made purchases. As another imported folding bike, it would disappear in the mix.