From my experience trying to get a bike here, people take ages to reply to emails, they have rubbish customer support phone numbers, their websites are rubbish..


ahem .... :-)
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japanese bikes ? do they still exist ? I mean even Shimano has all kinds of satelite production facilities and more or less only a very small percent of production in Japan. If said bikes shipped for 270 dlr are truly made in Japan, than they must be recycled ones ...lol

But dont fret it .... there are many many experts around who still believe that their complete bike is made in their homecountry or made in the US by that matter when looking in from Europe. Easy example are Specialized Schwinn Trek Cannondale ...... all of them are no longer made in the US but in TAiwan and China amongst other places.
Than there was this brand which is called Scott USA sold in Germany like hotcakes. Even a BIG USA flag on the bikes ... everybody thought American company ... but not so , they didnt even have an office over here.
Dahon doesnt call themselves DAHON USA on the bikes, they do have their corporate office in the US, they are a US company , but I still not like their rather liberal use of US flags on their bikes either.( They are clearly also stickered where they are made ) CAll me old fashioned. I am an American by choice ( not by birth ) and I might be a little more sensitive than most in that respect...


but back to Japanese folders
do you like to elaborate a little further and have us enjoy a picture maybe ?
Thanks Thor