has anyone seen a more beautiful bike than this?

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Originally Posted by Velocipede

You're trusting them with carbon and aluminum every time you fly a Dreamliner or Boeing plane. The 787 Dreamliner wing spar was made in China and then shipped to the US(Washington). Boeing found out that China screwed up the placement of some holes on the wing. Thomson had to do the refitting. They rearranged the shop floor and made a special section for them to get worked on. They had to drill holes and fit new pieces they were making in-house for the wings. They also had to do carbon lay-up on them.

Thomson has been doing carbon for 20 years. The first carbon bars and seatposts were designed and made in-house. Same with the ti bars and posts. Then it was Lynskey making the ti parts Then the carbon and ti parts shifted to Asia. Lynskey couldn't do the bars and post consistently without issues/failure and the carbon parts, they ruled they didn't have the time to do it. They started the carbon stuff at the time the wing spars came in. They didn't have the space and manpower to do both. So they shifted it overseas. It is a proprietary design though.

They do do things right. There is a ton of Thomson made parts on planes we scoot around on.

Clearly all the smart engineers are working for the sister company then.