Old 09-11-07, 12:09 PM
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Oh good heavens! What is the point of these threads? So the bike was made in France. But from where did the tubing originate? The steel used to make that tubing? And the builder? From what country did he originate?

So, the Ukrainian sets up shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee and imports British tubing made from iron ore mined in Minnesota and formed using machinery from Germany operated by some Turkish workers on visa. Tubing shipped to the U.S.A. on a Airbus jet made of parts sourced all over the world and assembled by a Noah's ark of workers from all over the globe. At least the UPS delivery man is from Ocoee, Tenn. The Ukrainian builder works in a shop that was built a hundred and twenty years ago by some Irish laborers and African-Americans from the Caribbean. And so on and on and on and on.

In other words, who gives a rip?

My bikes were made by humans on the planet Earth and we'll just leave it at that.
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