"Over the last twenty years the manufacture of top tier bicycle frames has transitioned from Italian, French, and US made frames to Taiwan and China."
fsonicsmith-
that's a little late regarding how bike manufacturing works. It has been in play since the early 90's on a large scale. I worked for a Taiwanese OEM frame manufacturer that made frames for all the recognized names-Bianchi included. There are a handful of that make the majority of mass market frames across the board-low end to high.
There are a few, high end specialty carbon contractors scattered across the globe, but the majority is still Asia.
Frame building still exits here in the states, but it is very small limited to boutique steel.aluminum and titanium. Carbon is offshore.
Rode a Schwinn Sting Ray in the 60's when it was Schwinn was still a Chicago manufacturer, that sadly is just a trademarked name that exchanged hands of many investment companies and made in...Taiwan for many decades now.
Been riding Giant Taiwanese carbon for awhile-good stuff. They are one of the OEM manufacturers of known labels here, in the states.
The MIC deniers of audio...it's just audio equipment.
