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Pingback by Individual Sole » Blog Archive » DC x SE Bikes Limited Edition PK Ripper - The Standard — September 22, 2009 @ 10:21 am

Those bikes are really crappy, made in china, awful welds, cheap components. I thought the Standard was an elegant and highbrow, sleek and upscale hotel…but now is just cheap & cheesy

Comment by aaaaaahrg — September 22, 2009 @ 12:23 pm

OH BURN!

Comment by Adam — October 2, 2009 @ 9:09 am

Are you just stating this, or have you actually had experience with this brand?

Comment by Harley — October 2, 2009 @ 9:16 am

look around….alot of things are made in china. doesnt mean they are cheap. i saw that bike in a shop (stock) and its pretty darn sweet. unless you find a welder/framebuilder you just cant do better.

not all mass production product is crap (like you seem to think aaaaargh)…look at the ipod.

Comment by sweetbutnot16 — October 2, 2009 @ 9:31 pm

SE has made some of the best BMX bicycles since the beginning of the sport. I am familiar with the people who are now running the brand and can assure you that they have access to the best bike manufacturing on the planet. If it is made in China it’s going to be as good as Taiwanese which over the last 25 years has proven to be as well made (for mass production) as anywhere.
China has really stepped up in the bike manufacturing.

Comment by Todd — October 4, 2009 @ 1:30 pm

aaaaaahrg: I know i shouldn’t care about anonymous post on the web but, i feel like you may just be pissed about the track bike hype on this one. Granted i’d rather use products not made in China or Taiwan, but the fact that things are made there doesn’t mean they are shit. Are you a welder? In my welding program in college i learned a few things to look for in a weld and those welds look pretty damn good from here. Component wise… who knows, a lot of non-branding going on here. But Sugino and Velocity have a damn good reputation for quality and non-chinese/taiwan manufacuturing. Quit getting pissed about bikes and go ride one.

Comment by bolt — October 5, 2009 @ 6:56 am

I happen to run a machining business here in the states and can tell all of you for a fact that the Chinese materials are full of lead and inferior. Just try to buy stainless or brass from China and you will find that you get garbage. The standards that us U.S. manufacturers are asked to hold are much higher than our customers expect when they buy the cheap Chinese junk. They can tolerate junk when they buy it at half the price. U.S. junk distributors, aka sellers of made in China could care less if they alienatea customer or two with a defective product. I often get a good laugh when I look at made in China machined products because I understand how threads should look along with many other machining characteristics that are there for a purpose. Maybe for a simple no performance intended bycicle these things don’t matter but if they end up somewhere on the plane you are flying you may lose your life. Being someone who knows what poor quality is when he sees it I’ll stick to buying retro bikes made either here or japan on places like ebay. The made in China garbage has no place in this American’s garage.

Comment by weston — December 26, 2009 @ 8:07 pm

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