Where most of the carbon fiber bikes are made? You guessed it - in China

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Large strides have been made by Chinese manufacturers in the their learning curve:   quality, material science and logistics.   And Western manufacturers know this too.   At 1/10 or even more the Western marketers can have the bikes made in China, labelled as made in _____ with stickers and with manuals

This post is not pro China.  Just observing

Those who dont eventually lose out to cheaper competitors.  Look at AmCla which wanted to be patriotic.

Most of the bikes are manufactured by Chinese as this video tells us.  The famous ones being Giant and Merida...

Dangers abound all around the bikers

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A neighbor, former classmate in elementary, ex US Navy is fighting for his life in ICU -  he was struck by an auv driven by a foreigner and had severe head injuriies.  

I had my close calls too:

     1.  Last Sat by an Innova who buzzed by inches away at Binangonan y intersection

     2.  At Alta Vista in Antipolo while climbing towards the Cathedral by an Orange bus plying Manila

          Infanta inches away

Should we stop biking?   Anyway the bike lanes have all but ceased to exist?   Perish from lack of exercise

or campaign for the other motorists to drive safe and treat bikers with respect?

Was advised not to join the long ride this coming month end, to Quezon

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This post has been furiously practicing for the long ride this month end to Quezon.  The journey will take 2 days and will cover 300 km  approximately.   However, a kapadyak who recently had a heart attack and was hospitalized advised me when he met, not to go with the ride  -  considering my age and the heat wave that is now raging.  The guy and I were DNF for the same trip - 5 years ago.  I banged my head after the bike oscillated going back from the  bitukang Manok back to Lucena;   he was simply poofed up -  (lack of practice) (We had about 20 chicks which died yesterday due to extreme heat exposure).

All my efforts seem to have gone to waste?   May be not.  Because I brought back the bike up to standards.   And my health too

If you were 75, your bike has been prepped, you practiced hard, and yet the external conditions are risky, would you go ahead or quit the plan?