Taiwan CoffeeI’ve just stepped off the plane out here in Taiwan, met up with Jackson, who looks after our Taiwanese operations and together we a couple of packed days of vendor visits planned.
First, a chance to pick up the coffee and e-mail for a few hours, then later on today we’re visiting analysing facility, and then one of the frame factories that we deal with. Rumble A-okNot the prettiest of pictures, but here is one of the new Rumble frames from final QC.
We are waiting for the dropouts to come back from the anodising company before they can get assembled, and they too can get shipped out. Fury frames ship!Our QC guys are keeping busy, they have now dealt with the entire batch of Fury frames, and are sealing them into their shipping cartons as we speak. They will be on their way to the container port in a couple of days, and we have a couple of hundred frames heading to each of our two depots; California and France.
I am sharing this photo with you, because it’s kind of funny… when I first saw it I lept out of my chair and phoned the factory manager demanding to know who’d made an enormous mistake… To my eyes the frame in the photo above is almost a baby blue colour, and it was supposed to be a sparkling British Racing Green… It’s only a little later on, when they take a look at the camera (and taken the frame out into the daylight to double check) that they confirmed to me the frames are indeed green, and the colour settings of their factory camera (plus probably the neon light) were way wrong! Shocking news!The first substantial batch of shockwave frames have just passed through the final QC and assembly process. They are being packed into cartons today, and should be loaded onto an aeroplane heading your way next week!
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