Thanks for sharing Maxway Cycles, we are a 38-year-old OEM and ODM factory. We love to work with great designers such as Adam. What we are doing is translating customers' visions into tangible realities. 😀

Cool insights. Let’s hope everyone is ok there after today’s earthquake!

That guy gave a fantastic interview. Extremely knowledgeable and yet seemingly so down to earth and humble.
What a fascinating and likable guy.

Other than the reason you gave, I watch your videos because I am sick and tired of the 'look at me riding my new bike, or touring on my bike type videos.'

we must protect taiwan for the bike industry and maybe for chips too.. but mostly for bikes.

Randal gave one heck of an interview here! Very knowledgeable and with great inside insight

i respect the language used by adam when he talks about the workers sometimes when people talk about far east manufacturing the words can be unintentionally dehumanizing.

My  Author bike frame was made in Taiwan back in 1996 and I still admire its outstanding quality and craftsmanship. They know their thing.

My Soma Smoothie was built in Taiwan. It’s been my primary ride for 15 years, and I don’t love it any less than the first day I rode it.

Glad to see artisans can still make a living from custom builds. My Grandfather eas one of only a few steel frame builders in England in the 70s. He was sad to see a lot of British bike manufacturers disappear to the Asian market

Being in manufacturing over thirty five now with one involving metal fabrication this was right down my alley.
Great interview👍

The description of the manufacturing process reminds me of a visit I made to the Philippines of a furniture manufacturing "facility." There wasn't any facility. Instead a truck would pull up to an extended family's compound of glorified huts and unload several dozen pieces of furniture, each one needing a particular operation in the manufacturing process to be performed next. Inside the huts family members expertly and quickly performed one single operation on those pieces in progress. A little while later another truck stopped by to unload another set and pick up the ones they had worked on. The truck traveled several hundred yards and unloaded at another extended family's compound of huts where they performed the next step in the manufacturing process.

Great interview that offers a lot of comparative insight into production in Taiwan vs. artisan US framebuilding. Would love to see a few more interviews in this direction! As others have noted, Sklar was especially knowledgeable, humble, and friendly. Also wish the businesses in Taiwan that they survived the earthquake and are able to recover.

Great video!

In 1998 our company bikeE contracted with Giant to manufacture our less expensive models.
26 trips and 7 1/2 months over there I probably visited 50-100 different bicycle factories and every one had something special to offer.
Having Giant to introduce me was a huge boss as many of the smaller companies were founded by graduates of Giant University, in fact they encouraged their best and brightest to move on and do their own thing.

I have to mention the food often treated to fabulous meals. Give me that I love seafood in Taiwan is a small island it's delicious.

Thanks for the memories.

I want a titanium fixed gear that clears 55c tires!  Sounds awesome!

My mountain bike was built in Taiwan.  It was probably built here.  Great interview!!

Excellent. Have followed the ‘bike industry’,with various degrees of involvement since 1970’s.  Since the huge transfer of wealth during 2020-24 the industry has,in my opinion become lost to ‘corporate interests’( profit for shareholders) prices through the roof.  Love to see small business,craft,skilled,non bullshit content!

Great stuff and some modest insights from Adam too :-).  Visiting some wheel factories in Taiwan and meeting the folk building + hearing their stories is something I'd love to do in the future!

Excellent interview! I have a 92 Giant Allegra steel road bike and it has an amazing ride feel.  The geometry is spot on, compared to my Italian Tommasini, a 92 Columbus SLX frame.   The Giant Allegra made me a big believer in Taiwanese quality made bikes.

supa cool interview. nice to learn a bit about the factory