First off let me assure you that there is nothing wrong at all with Taiwanese made frames and the Taiwanese have been producing bike frames for many years, plus also producing frames for many overseas companies as well without a doubt. Lets look at some brands like Specialized whom are American and Avanti whom are from New Zealand, but tell me where their bike are made Taiwan. Oh yes and also Trek, this is a purely US company but beleive me I've seen Trek bikes made in Taiwan, and who rides a Trek, well you guessed it Lance the man himself, though I do beleive that there are still some Treks made in the US, but I can rest assure that this will all soon shift later to Taiwan.

Companies and businesses are very touchy about their profits on what they make and what final profit they make at the end of the year or so on, really speaking they are not going to give a damn about you winning the Tour De France etc etc, but would rather see their profit margins rise by the end of the year.

Even if a company like Cannondale who claims that their bikes are still all handmade in the USA, wore lets say starting to a slump or drop in their annual profit margins, due to manufacturing costs, labour costs etc etc etc, I can rest assure that their manufacturing facility will shift to Taiwan. Nothing wrong with this just they will save heaps more money a year.

So the question arises why should Trek or some other US, European or what ever country pay someone $50,000 a year to make their frames and welding etc etc, when they can get a Taiwanese or Taiwan to do it at half the cost, and the job can be done just as good if not better. Also we have to realise that Taiwan is a very well developing country and they have alot of expertise at bike manufacturing, and also talk about technology who are the biggest manufacturers of computers components and motherboards in the world, the Taiwanese.

And finally when you come to think of it, it's really the frame that is manufactured there, all the rest of the components like groupset, seat, wheels etc etc are made by other overseas companies.