| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
| Total number of notes: | 31946 |
I was talking with a chap who runs a bicycle shop, and he said that
most of the non-specialised frames for bikes come from South-East
Asia.
Anyone else substantiate this point ?
I have a Raleigh with 23-18 frame tubing, and the Raleigh Nottingham
badge is most prominant, together with a Union Jack. Should it bear
the flag of the Taiwanese Republic or Korea/India/China instead?
Tim
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| 1639.1 | DICKNS::MACDONALD | VAXELN - Realtime Software Pubs | Tue Jul 17 1990 14:21 | 3 | |
Raleigh USA manufactures all the Raleigh "Technicium" frames in the
state of Washington. Most frames have their source of manufacture stuck
somewhere.
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| 1639.2 | JUMBLY::MACFADYEN | Ride that bike | Wed Jul 25 1990 16:19 | 10 | |
It's hard to say where low-end frames come from, but high-end frames
are easier to source: the UK has a strong native frame-building
industry.
Mountain-bikes are a bit different; the typical TIG welded chrome-moly
ATB frame certainly does come from SE Asia, and maybe that's what your
cycle dealer meant.
Rod
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