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Gear Talk / Re: Salsa Fargo - Lemon of the year!

« on: June 05, 2010, 10:00:25 am »

Salsa and Surly are not separate companies "owned" by QBP, they are QBP brands.  Like Doritos and Lays are brands of Frito Lay.  And given that the Fargo and LHT are almost the exact same price, I'm betting there isn't any different "cost constraint" put on by QBP to the manufacturer.  Chances are he just got a rare bad frame, or there was nothing wrong with it and he's just an idiot.  Either way the irony is in his "Salsa sucks and the company sucks and my Surly is just great". 

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Gear Talk / Re: Salsa Fargo - Lemon of the year!

« on: June 04, 2010, 11:24:22 pm »

Salsa and Surly are the same company: QBP.  They're out of Minnisota and your LHT was made at the same factory in Taiwan as your Fargo.  And to top it off they're the largest bicycle accessory/component wholesaler in the USA, so you can bet that everything else you bought from that LBS came from them too.