Originally Posted by
RadioFlyer
I'd like a Kogswell, but they received an entire shipment of frames that did not meet their standards. Good news is, they have standards and would rather lose a few sales in the short term than sell a product they're not proud of... as such, it looks like the bike for me (the 563) is delayed until next spring.
Thanks.
That's
sort of what happened.
During a routine QA check about half of a batch was found to have braze-ons that were not done correctly.
Those frames were trashed and they have been rebuilt and are on their way here.
The rest of that batch arrived and is now (or will soon be) in the hands of happy customers.
The frame shop that we use has done very nice work for us in the past. The first generation P/Rs were flawless. This batch was different in that the shop outsourced the brazing and they did not check the contractor's work.
Demand for frames in Taiwan is steep at the moment, second only to the demand here. So they're trying to scale up production and it didn't work. Does it ever?
We try to scale up production and we just get told to wait our turn.
The good news is that people all over the globe are riding their bikes more.
That's all for me. Time to go krank out some widgets.