When will the maturity of Japans bicycle industry be recognized to warrant this respect? Some of the Japanese builders and manufacturing have been at it longer than our vaunted American builders. And they are still in business. I think they have paid their dues at this point- their manufacturing base has largly been exported to China leaving only boutique makers who know what they are doing.
Tom Martin
Oakland
> Tom Martin wrote:
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> (cut)
> > When does a frame
> > builder start producing their own style and sign of the hand and stop
being
> > a copier, or replica maker?
>
> This usually (?) comes with maturity (sometimes called "paying your
dues")...
>
> Chuck "Do you take credit cards?" Schmidt
> L.A.
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> .