Comments on: CANNONDALE HEADED WEST — TO FAR EAST http://www.bicycle.net/2009/cannondale-headed-west-to-far-east cycling news, product reviews, original bicycling essays, bike podcasts and video -- Tour de France 2010 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: cllifford http://www.bicycle.net/2009/cannondale-headed-west-to-far-east#comment-83287 cllifford Mon, 11 May 2009 21:22:30 +0000 http://www.bicycle.net/?p=6121#comment-83287 dear bicycle.net i am not even politically against all outsourcing. its just the fact that those sweatshops produce horrible quality products. and if cannondale doesnt make a great product i dont care if its cheap. the whole point about cannondale is quality not being more cost effective against wall mart bikes. and i dont want a cannondale if its going to be a pile of garbage like the mongoose and schwinns are. i would rather they go out of business and be remembered as a great innovator rather than live on as a $200 piece of junk sold at wallmart. its not the outsourcing that upsets me. there were parts of the factory that were catastrophically inefficient. but dorel outsourced 100% of the manufacturing and assembly to taiwan. the new cannondales will be mae at the exact same factory that makes the schwinn and mongoose bikes. and designed by a new unified conglomerate that will does those horrible wallmart bikes. i dont want cannondale to survive if it means they will survive as a terrible kmart bike. im not an anti capitalist either. i dont mind if there are cheap wall mart bikes. i think its great that even the poorest people today can have a bike. i also think that (with proper regulation) capitalism is the most powerfull, nd perhaps the only tool uplift developing countries. but 3rd world sweat shops are not the way to make a great bike. dear bicycle.net
i am not even politically against all outsourcing. its just the fact that those sweatshops produce horrible quality products. and if cannondale doesnt make a great product i dont care if its cheap. the whole point about cannondale is quality not being more cost effective against wall mart bikes. and i dont want a cannondale if its going to be a pile of garbage like the mongoose and schwinns are. i would rather they go out of business and be remembered as a great innovator rather than live on as a $200 piece of junk sold at wallmart. its not the outsourcing that upsets me. there were parts of the factory that were catastrophically inefficient.

but dorel outsourced 100% of the manufacturing and assembly to taiwan. the new cannondales will be mae at the exact same factory that makes the schwinn and mongoose bikes. and designed by a new unified conglomerate that will does those horrible wallmart bikes. i dont want cannondale to survive if it means they will survive as a terrible kmart bike.

im not an anti capitalist either. i dont mind if there are cheap wall mart bikes. i think its great that even the poorest people today can have a bike. i also think that (with proper regulation) capitalism is the most powerfull, nd perhaps the only tool uplift developing countries.

but 3rd world sweat shops are not the way to make a great bike.

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