A couple of months ago I made a posting in bicycle mechanics about Chinese derailleurs. I looked at roadbikes at alibaba.com trade listing. Most of their current road bikes had downtube shifters.

They have many component manufacturers. So many most of them will go out of business. It will be very interesting in 10 years I say.Looks like at the moment quality equipment comes from Taiwan and not mainland China. I am getting off topic here. I read good things about Microshift in bicycle mechanics. I have one of their mtb derailleurs bought 2 years ago and the quality is very good compared to the usual low end Shimano of the same price group.