Originally Posted by
rustystrings61
I’m pretty sure the 87-89 LeTours were Mississippi built - I don’t recall seeing any Japanese bikes built with True Temper tubing.
Shipping American-made steel tubing westward across the Pacific Ocean to Japan or Taiwan where it will be made into bicycles that will then be shipped eastward across the Pacific Ocean to America seems to me to be somewhat inefficient... It's kinda like sending your bicycle frames on WESTPAC.
But I'm not an economist, so I'm probably just too stupid to understand how the world should work according to Theory, to which reality must be made to conform.
--Shannon