Have you guys ever watched Dragon's Den or Shark Tank?? When a product comes on that one of them really likes one of the first questions they ask is how much do you pay to produce it? Normally the person says as an example $6 to build it here. They then say "wow that is too much, I have contacts in China, who can produce it for a lot less"
Do you actually think Kevin, Jim or Arlene are traveling to China to inspect the factory and ensure QC and that they are using only the highest quality parts?? LOL
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Big difference between toilet gadgets and motorcycle parts. Also, that is a reality TV show with little reality.
Any good company should be doing secondary QC from the factory. Crap companies seek out other crap companies.
Around 2000, Taiwan started making carbon fiber products due to the high labor costs, within ten years, they make the best carbon fiber products on the market, and not the cheapest anymore, the most expensive, under licence from European brands. At this point, they exceed the manufacturing tech anywhere else in the world. They have bike frames that weigh 800g and are stronger than anything else. Today, most of the world's carbon fiber comes from two facilities in Taiwan.
With Chinese manufacturing, you get what you pay for, provide the specs, the standards. Many companies constantly pressure for lower prices, then ignore it when the products are sub-contracted or sub-par, because if anything goes wrong, it's really cool to blame China, when the blame is bad management on the other side not paying for proper QC.
Meanwhile...the myths still continue that German cars are bikes are the best quality. Reality is no where near that.
With these bikes, the issue is whether there will be part support in the long term. I doubt it.