If your car had a Dongfeng badge would you have bought it? Same discussion. The reality is it doesn’t really matter much at all. If you have an issue with it you might have a hard time getting warranty work. But people have been building bikes up from cheap Ali express Chinese frames for years now with no problems and saving an assload sotroyguitar wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:26 pmDunno, $500 more for 3 extra lbs and mostly the "same" spec seems hard to swallow? 18 lbs on the Wally World bike sounds to me.[user not found] wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:14 pm
This actually comes really damn close:
https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bike ... ode=orange
All the factories steal the IP from the companies that use them anyway. You’re probably getting a frame that’s 90% the same as a Giant or whatever. But supporting companies that operate like that.