I will enter my 1989 DB Apex, Smoke paint, Deore II and a made in Taiwan sticker

Here you go ... my Parkpre Catalyst 1990 made in Taiwan proudly displayed on the head tube.

a lot of these frames I always thought were US made...

seems I've learnt something new today

Jeez that's big

Nice paintjob on those though

I know rule is any frame made in Taiwan but would like to see some bikes originally born in Taiwan like Giant, Anlen, Pacyfic, Cycletech etc. That's what I understand by meaning "made in Taiwan".

A obvious American/European brand, design and engineering but bikes welded in Taiwan does not convince me to vote for.

I hear what you're saying but my take is a little different. I see this month as a good opportunity to counter some of the snobbery around far east manufacture and show off some really nice, well made (in taiwan) bikes.

Don't get me wrong, I like all bikes without particular preferences, and because is such a broad category in special BoTM I'm just trying to narrow a bit. Otherwise I'll be struggle to pick anything as usual in regular month

Ii'm really far for being a specialist of Orange, but if your bike is titanium made, it would be sandvik weld

It's funny : it's a taiwan special, and still no "Giant" or "Wheeler" shown

The weather was reasonable today, so I took some new pics. That means I can enter my bike after all.

Sbike moved production to Taiwan at the end of 1992, so my 1993 Sbike 503 is Taiwanese.

Clean pic added, for your pleasure

Here is my 1991 Haro Extreme Comp - NOS with full DX kit. Check out the build thread in my signature.

in my early pre-bike trade days i just assumed they were made in the UK with the other frames that Orange made. but at that point i knew nothing about the difficulties of welding titanium or any other metal for that matter but having a chat with one of the longer serving members of the Orange production team told me they were taiwan made, i was surprised myself.

from what i understand Orange for some of their frames use the Kinesis factory (for the aluminium hardtails) and for steel i think they use the same factory as the charge bikes, which also have some similarities with the Genesis frames, the suggestion was that they had been using this steel factory since the early days and we know they work with titanium because they do the charge Ti frames, so it sort of confirms the statement from my friend at Orange.

also, when you compare a Vit T2 (or the original Vit T) the finish is so different to anything from america, the US stuff had a higher polished finish mostly where as taiwan tended to be matt grey in finish.

Gorgeous

I'll put in my 1996 Sunn Xchox, frame and forks both made in Taiwan. Build thread is in my signature.

Two Parkpre's in the same BoTM?

Mine, Pro 825, Tange Ultimate Superlight.

Restored frame built with Switchblades, m900, Ringle, Hope, X-lite, Control Tech, Sun, Answer, Ritchey and Paul Components.