The Waterford facility is a first class operation that was spun off from the Schwinn Chicago plant in 1980 solely to build the Paramount class of bicycles (becoming the Paramount Design Group as a separate Schwinn operation). The Waterford facility is now owned by Richard Schwinn (he of the Ignaz Schwinn dynasty) and Marc Muller who is the chief designer (and was originally tapped by Edwin Schwinn to start up the Waterford plant).
These people have decades of experience building fine bicycles and they've been quite closely involved with Rivendell Bicycle Works since Grant started up in 1995. Other than Grant himself, Richard Schwinn, Marc Muller and Richard Sachs were quite involved in the original Rivendell design and start-up. Waterford has been around from the beginning. I think that there's absolutely no reason to believe that the Atlantis bicycles built in Waterford are inferior to the Toyo bikes. Personally, I'd be quite happy to own a Waterford built Atlantis! Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Mar 20, 8:38 am, Khalid Mateen <krm2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do not want to start a fiery debate about this but what makes japanese > atlantis built bicycle superior to the American made ones? Just curious. > When there was an announcement that Rivendell would no longer have the Toyo > plant build their bicycles, people with money to spare went after the last > batch of those frames. It is the steel? The craftmanship? > > Regards, > > K. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
