UK bike maker cuts Taiwan orders due to geopolitical risk

“Taiwan probably makes the best quality, most innovative bicycle components. We are very unlike most other bike brands, where… we make most of the parts ourselves. But we still need some of those unique, very bike specific elements.

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That’s just fear mongering. And outright paranoid.

The title of this thread is incorrect.

Nowhere in this article does it even use the word order or cutting orders.

Fear mongering just a news agency trying to get some news out.

Will Butler-Adams, Brompton’s managing director, he’s wise to have multiple sources for parts but the other stuff is just you know shrapnel.

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Sounds like they still want a Taiwanese company to make them, but make them somewhere else.
Some> of the world’s biggest bike manufacturers had “thrown down the gauntlet” to suppliers by ordering them to move out of Taiwan within the next two years, he said.

Mr Butler-Adams said: “They’re not saying we want you to dual-source and go to Europe, they are staying in Asia. But they’re expecting some of those companies to actually set up operations somewhere else.

“You’re not necessarily going to a different supplier, it’s the same supplier but you want them then to set up a subsidiary in Thailand or Vietnam.

"So you’ve still got that knowledge base inside the company. But you don’t want to have all your eggs in one basket. It’s definitely and it’s happening in our industry more broadly.”

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I mean they aren’t completely wrong that this a critical risk since the two major suppliers could have a war with each other.
But I don’t see much hope, for them, of moving much production out.

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