On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't think the yen exchange is the whole issue with Toyo. I heard a > rumor that they had a significant number (~half?) of their longtime > builders quit or retire. According to my source, it isn't fashionable > in Japan for young people to go into craft industries, so recruiting > new builders hasn't been easy for Toyo.
So then I guess I'll ask the silly question again. Instead of focusing on a couple of small but consolidated shops (Toyo and W'Ford) does it make any sense to distribute the framebuilding to a larger set of builders - I dare say there are a bunch of builders in the US right now who might want some work. With a little database work it wouldn't be that hard to track which serial numbers were built by which people and where for Quality Assurance. maybe I'm too influenced by the distributed production model that I work in a lot. -sv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
