View Single Post
Old 09-14-23, 03:26 PM
  #15  
tomato coupe
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 6,121

Bikes: Colnago, Van Dessel, Factor, Cervelo, Ritchey

Mentioned: 8 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4051 Post(s)
Liked 7,643 Times in 3,067 Posts
Originally Posted by sir_crash_alot
Debatable whether Merida factories in Taiwan make everything (or just assemble it), sure. But the point of this is to point out the shortcomings in simply assuming Asian made = Junk without doing further research. Not all China made stuff is junk. Not all American/Euro made stuff is gold. Research into Decathlon would reveal that this stuff is not junk.
Actually, the point is that your previous statement was nonsense. There is zero indication that an S-Works Tarmac SL8 is made in the same "unknown" factory as Decathlon.

Originally Posted by sir_crash_alot
Did you know that an S-Works Tarmac SL8 could very well have been made in those unknown factories?)

Last edited by tomato coupe; 09-15-23 at 08:41 AM.
tomato coupe is offline