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Define "make". Often companies are doing specifications and blueprints, but outsource the actual manufacturing to other companies. I think this would also apply

Define "make". Often companies are doing specifications and blueprints, but outsource the actual manufacturing to other companies. I think this would also apply to PNW, since their products (like the seatpost) are afaik not known to be just relabeled versions of other products.

Eiriksmal 5y ago
+1. Their droppers are whitelabeled TransX, but the other components appear to have actually been designed by PNW and manufactured by various suppliers in Taiwan like most high quality, high volume bike parts. But they're still a business "making things" in the same way that most other companies that sell consumer products are. I have a Loam lever, a Rainier dropper, and Range stem. They're all excellent parts with tasteful branding. PNW's customer support is excellent, when it comes time to inevitably replace a sagging dropper. The stem's bottom has an unusual design that excited some bike wizards on bikes.stackexchange when I had questions about using stems without spacers. That certainly isn't a whitelabeled, off-the-shelf component. With the state of Amazon being what it is, I would never even have thought to look for bike parts on there. The likelihood of accidentally buying a counterfeit part is way, way too high. I buy all my bike parts direct from the manufacturer, whenever possible. PNW has a nice Shopify site, why give Amazon your money?