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Ryan Cousineau  
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 More options 6 Dec 2005, 04:11
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
From: Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@sfu.ca>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 04:11:56 GMT
Local: Tues 6 Dec 2005 04:11
Subject: Re: Typical decent Al Bicycle diamond frame costs $8 to make in Taiwan
In article <051220051933154076%lucasirag...@rogers.com>,

 Luke <lucasirag...@rogers.com> wrote:
> This from Sheldon Brown's Bentride Podcast (@ 8:50). No wonder
> manufacturing is a declining sector in North America! This can't be the
> total cost of production (stock and labor); does the figure apply to
> labor cost only?

> The mp3 file is available for d/l at Sheldon's website
> (http://sheldonbrown.com/podcasts/).

> Luke

Could be. The anecdote I heard from a maker of electronic I/O devices
was that when they closed their domestic manufacturing facility, the
economics were such that they could air-ship completed products to North
America from China for the same total mfg cost as making the connector
cords here.

It's Japan all over again,

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Ryan Cousineau rcous...@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos


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