What I would be concerned about is offering less features like lugs. For me, Rivendells have always been well made and have nice lugs. However, I haven't been on the site in a while, but notice that some of the new frames are now TIG-welded or have very simple lugs?! Really?! That's like BMW making their 1 Series cars front wheel drive....but I digress. So not having nice lugs would be more a deal breaker than whether the frames was made by Waterford, Toyo or Taiwan (Maxway?).
Btw, MIT is not all bad. My local LBS (A Bicycle Odyssey in Sausalito) is having a big sale on all its frames right now and they carry an interesting Taiwanese frameset from a company called Rikulau. They make a Reynolds 953 and 931 stainless steel framesets that are really nice. If I didn't recently buy a used Della Santa, I would be very tempted. Also, for those who are not paranoid, some of the best carbon framesets are also made in Taiwan. Giant makes carbon frames for just about everyone on the planet. They're one of the leaders in carbon fiber design. So MIT should be a concern, more about what features are being offered. Good Luck! On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 11:28:33 AM UTC-7, Lum Gim Fong wrote > This is just something I was pondering as I was commuting today. > Thought it might make an interesting discussion. > > From what I understood before, the order went Wisconsin $$$$$- Toyo > $$$$-Taiwan $$$, even though I think Riv stated in their writings that all > were made just as well. Although there were diffs in features and labor > that would make a MUSARIV more $$ than a Toyo in some instances. > > Now that runs of Taiwan made models are coming out of previously MUSA > models, do you think that will increase or decrease used sale values of the > MUSA and Toyo Rivs? > > I don't own a MUSA Rivbike but was just wondering. > I have a Toyo and Taiwan frames. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
