Originally Posted by
bicycletothesun
My point is: Italian bikes are to be made in Italy. Japanese bikes are to be made in Japan. Chinese bikes are to be made in China. American bikes are to be made in the USA. The moment a company outsources is how they immediately lose my respect and all my cash.
Well, are you willing to pay the premium that's necessery for that? Maybe you are, but others are not.
I love my 600€ bike and I neither know nor care where it was produced. The thing is, welding some steel tubes together isn't rocket science. Chances are, that uneducated farmer's kid in the factory in Shanghai can do it just as well as the guy from Milan who had the craft handed down to him from his great-grandfather.
There's no art or love in such a bike, but it works just as well.