25-07-13, 06:55 PM
Bit of a conundrum here. If people stopped buying Chinese stuff due to quality issues, they'd have to improve it. The Japs experienced this when they first started producing bikes for a western market. However, as China and the other BRIC countries become wealthier and the West gets poorer, we'll no longer be able to afford higher quality products. It may be that in the future we reach some kind of a compromise, but maybe our golden era of having the best is coming to a close? Maybe we'd better start learning to run our bikes on bodge tape and baling wire like they do in the East :eek . Despite constant warnings of crap from China, the trend seems to be to go on buying it. If you can't afford anything else...