Originally Posted by
timmhaan
i think it matters if they are misleading consumers to believe the product originates elsewhere. I briefly went to the website and couldn't really find any mention of where the bikes are manufactured. there are plenty of italian flags though and talk of "great craftsmanship", etc.
i know this is the norm, but i think more companies should just be forthright with it.
Colnago does....several of their bikes/frames specifically say they were made in Taiwan. The upper end stuff is made in Italy, but that's because the bike's muy expensive and not many are made. The production bikes, they just don't have the space to make more frames. They import both carbon and aluminum.
BTW...we had this discussion in the fall, I think, where we were looking at generic Taiwan frames and trying to decipher how many companies were using the same basic generic frame. Repaint and rebadge it to make it look "different"...one of the posters had purchased a frame for (as I recall) $450 that was used on an Italian manufacturer multi-thousand dollar bike.
Like the one pictured...
People chuckle about Trek and Cannondale...I met the guy that laid up the carbon for my System Six, and I know that 5 and 6 series Madone's are made in Waterloo. Not a factory in Taiwan.