At this point we are 3, maybe at most 5 years away from the point where people will unironically buy 100% mainland Chinese brand bikes without it being seen as niche/autist/risque/"interesting". Like how people basically consider Anker to be the best of the best when it comes to their one niche thing, not "despite being a PRC brand", no discussion of that, just straight up it's good, it's trustworthy, end of discussion. We're getting pretty close for bikes but we're still a couple of years out.

But here I don't mean this one niche thing like a wheel. For bikes I mean everything, from the frameset to the wheels to the groupset, chain, tires, contact points, even the electronics. There will be a 100% PRC bike and it will be not a cheap bike but a good bike, and probably there will be a number of them actually and it will be considered prestigious to ride one.

My question is, why isn't Taiwan doing the same? I can buy a Seka or a Winspace frame direct from the manufacturer. Why won't ORA sell me one frameset? I know they've got a lot of large bike companies as clients but why aren't we seeing direct to consumer Taiwanese framesets, wheels etc? The only thing that has stopped me from buying an LB or Yoeleo wheelset is the fact that buying a PRC-branded product is stigmatized in my mind. 2/3 of the stuff I own is PRC-made so it's completely illogical but I feel like Taiwan could really capitalize on this stuff, so why don't they?