Originally Posted by RichRyder

ok, her is the scoop. I did a little digging and this is what I came up with. Giant does design of their frames. Then Giant produces one. They then proceed to feild test it and do more R&D. Then they tweak and redesign it to get what they want as their finished product. Now is the important part. They contract out the construction of their frames, which must meet their design and standard, but it is cheaper and faster to have them produced in a plant that is already able to handle the production load that they need. Well, this company, as yet unknown to me, has been producing these frames for then for a long time. They got to thinking, "hey, we are sitting here making frames for Giant at a profit of say $10 a frame. Why don't we make our own company "Worcycle" and make our own frames and sell a complete bike for say $300 profit." So that is what they did, they designed their own frame loosely base off of Giant, and then did just like everyone else, slapped on a bunch of other company's parts, like shimano shifters and suntour forks and Hayes brakes. After all, when you get right down to it, maybe 10% of a Giant is accually made by Giant, the rest they just peice together and then slap their name on it.

Anyway, that is what I dug up, though I may still be wrong. It seems that the company that accually produces Giant frames has made one of their own. This new company is Worcycle, and the bike that I put the link to is their "Sick" model. Anyway, under these circumstances, it should be a pretty good bike. They have been making frames for quite some time for Giant, so they know the right specs, and it seems as though they slapped some good parts on it for the price range of the bike.

Let me know what you guys think about it.