Originally Posted by
bikesdirect_com
I question weather you are a mechanic that works in a bike shop
The vast majority of Specialized and Trek bikes are made in China and Taiwan. If you were working in a bike shop; you would know that. Cannondale started last year moving models to China and certainly that trend is likely to continue.
No bicycles are "made entirely in the US"
in fact , I know of none that meet the 50% standard used by Nafta
and no where close to the 98% content that courts used to require for "made in USA"
If the Dawes frame is "crap" so are most Trek, Jamis, Specialized, Giant, Felt, etc frames
People should get facts before their brand other peoples equipment as crap
Learn to spell, learn to not make ad-hominem attacks and next time someone starts a thread about your company kindly keep your advertising out of it.
You're behaving like a 13 year old.
And when I say that the Dawes frame is crap I mean, when compared to most other IBD brands. When your bikes get
reviewed on a regular basis by cyclingnews.com, velonews, bicycle magazine, bicycling.com and you get actual mention on BRAIN then I'll take your company seriously. Until then I will maintain, and continue to support the notion that you're just in it for the money. Otherwise you'd have a storefront and actually interact face-to-face with your customers.
I'm glad there are happy customers of bikesdirect.com and I wish them the best with their purchase.
In the long run I believe that your company does a disservice to the bike industry as a whole.
Kind of like Wal-Mart.
And I'll say it again... I think that this is the wrong subforum for a review of a bicycle where 2/3 of the review is a cut-and-paste of text from the purchasing site. If a review was truly the intent I would have preferred that the reviewer put the bike through a year of riding under actual commuting conditions and then return a review that answers concerns about the bike as a viable commuting rig. This should include discussion of the addition of accessories such as racks, fenders, and lights and how well the bike as a system held up. As well as how well the component choices made by the OEM held up and whether the frame handled an actual winter or not.
Then I'll take you seriously.