Taiwan, like many places, has a wide variety of manufacturers. Some produce wonderful quality, others focus more on price. You need to make parts where the knowledge and machinery exists to make those parts. For example, I cannot think of a single forged square-taper crank that has been made in the U.S., ever. So we knew that unless we wanted to build an entire new industry, we couldn't have our new René Herse cranks made here.
Our engineer spent months visiting every factory in Taiwan to get an impression of what they were capable of doing, before choosing our current supplier of the raw forgings. They also make parts for Ducati motorcycles and other high-end brands. Of course, they are more expensive than others, but to us, the quality is worth it. Jan Heine Compass Bicycles Ltd. http://www.compasscycle.com Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ On Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:57:35 AM UTC-7, Mike Schiller wrote: > > I'm not surprised that these are made in Taiwan, that seems like the > center of the bike component industry today. -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
