General: Moving to Taiwan

boo.

-1 cannondale, -1...

The pressures of the market. It's a shame, skilled people should work at what they love, not live just to work, just to make ends meet. Sucks bad man, and shame on Cannondale.

Posted By: RideEverydayIt's a shame, skilled people should work at what they love, not live just to work, just to make ends meet.

While that's true, and I know how you feel, I assume you've never seen the inside of the cannondale factory. Aside from some quality lab and design guys, who will still have their jobs, a lot of that factory is stocked with burly rednecks who can weld aluminum, and middle aged/older ladies building wheels and partially assembling bikes. It's pretty intense, but to be honest, I don't know how much of the crowd is really there because they love bikes, so much as it's a factory in bedford. If it wasn't in bedford, I would've been there wrapping handlebars a long time ago

What other bike companies, aside from custom builders are there that aren't shipping frames out of china and taiwan? I know Cervelo is from Canada, right? Orbea's I believe are made in Spain, The only thing that's not awful about the situation, is that I don't buy new bikes anyway, my most recent frame is a Caad5 road frame, which is probably at least 5 years old, so it'll take a while before I come across a cannondale frame that I'd pass on.

Worse than the "made in Taiwan" sticker, are all of the disgusting "Designed in the USA" stickers. Apperantly it's supposed to comfort me to know that even though the welders, preppers, painters, sticker guys, assemblers, and packers for all those bikes that used to go out daily, there's still 2 or 3 guys sitting behind a computer typing in angles and coming up with paint schemes somewhere that still have their job.