Hot take: a Taiwanese production frame is probably better made than a typical custom builder. They do much more volume, so more experience, and have much more tooling for shaping and fixturing the tubes.
Eric On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM Jeremy Till <[email protected]> wrote: > Framebuilder/YouTuber Daniel Yang just posted a video where he visits > Maxway, the Taiwanese framebuilders that produce steel frames for many > brands, including Rivendell: > > https://youtu.be/eoVV-s7CvEY?si=tJEgFIfQgWT53Aol > > Around 6 minutes in is footage of their brazing shop, where we get to see > what are clearly Platypus frames being brazed and then going through final > frame prep (seat tube slot cutting, reaming, BB thread chasing, etc.). > > Thought it might be of interest to many here. Maybe one of those frames is > your future bike! > > Jeremy Till > Sacramento, CA > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/82e9c182-e6ca-4bda-bf65-ec147440638fn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/82e9c182-e6ca-4bda-bf65-ec147440638fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAHFNW5AfXpuMkK20Er9ZWzszZtimf82J0idX1-FKpu_FBOWLaA%40mail.gmail.com.
