We Flew to Taiwan to Visit a Mountain Bike Factory! (Exclusive HQ Tour)
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Taiwan is the home of most factories for the mountain bike industry including DVO Suspension and SR Suntour. Recently we had the opportunity to fly to Asia and visit the largest suspension manufacturer where DVO suspension is also based and we were blown away! Enjoy this exclusive factory tour showing how suspension is made, and a bit more about both SR Suntour as well as DVO suspension!
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SR Suntour: www.srsuntour.com/home/
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Saddle: Specialized Mirror saddle bit.ly/3CfLPPX
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Suntour is the one of the most underrated brand in bicycle manufacturing.
They are awesome for sure!
For having fixed a lot of suntour fork .. they have quality componement inside but curiously they doens't works as well...
Yes one of the reasons a old air models that make clicking noise when they a brand new and that noise came with first ride ...
Straight up.
The XCM30 they produce is the go to for budget mountain bike coil sprung shocks and I've found it's fantastically reliable.
what about xfusion?
Bryson is a legend in the world of MTB suspension, I first met him at Marzocchi in 1995 and he is still turning out great product to this day almost 30 years later.
Bryson is the best!!!!
This was sweet to see. I'm always intrigued by the manufacturing processes.
Glad to hear it!! It was different from our normal content but was so awesome we had to share it!
I was actively shopping for a new fork, and was pretty decided on either a RS Pike or Lyrik. Watched this video and started looking into DVO. Loved what I saw from them as a company and from other riders. Ordered two DVO forks this morning! Thanks for turning us on to them!
So awesome!! You will be stoked!!!
I have one of their forks and one of their coil shocks and their truly amazing performers
I've been using Marzocchi since 1999 when I made the move to Rocky Mountain bikes. Now I use DVO, having had some "off" experiences with what that original name has been applied to. Thanks Bryson for keeping things going!
🙂I enjoyed a lot watching this video. As a passionate dowhill rider,dirt jumper,street biker and enduro biker it truly is admirable to see the work SR Suntour has been putting in thoughout the years making the company grow and reach the level where it is today👌🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. I still remember 20 years ago seeing economic bikes equipped with basic suspension forks for sale on french retailer Decathlon's shops in Portugal. In the meantime I'm aware already that a dual crown fork has come out on the market already since 2017 if I'm right🤔.Just as good to know was that the still somewhat recent brand on the Mtb market DVO has a partnership with SR Suntour where they also work together in the same manufacture facility.I wish all the best for both companies and may God continue to lead them in the right direction as it has been doing so far,👍🏻🇵🇹🇳🇱🙋🏻♂️.
They are awesome for sure!!!!
Excellent tour! Thank you guys for taking us through the whole process! Was great to see it start to finish and meet some of the folks involved over there.
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
SR Suntour is old school…didn’t know DVO is part of them and that they were still in business…that’s awesome! Thanks for sharing
Both companies are so rad! The DVO guys used to be marrizochi back in the day too! Lots of history, thanks so much for watching!!!
SR made all the entry level Mazocchi forks for years.
Just check out Tom Pidcock's World and Olympic's MTB- -= Old School is new school.
I have a new appreciation for all it takes to design and manufacture bike shocks, thanks!
So much goes into it! We do too! Thanks for watching!
Great video! I love my DVO forks, shocks, and coils!
The suspension is so awesome!!!!
WOW that was fun to see! Thank you for sharing your tour with us!
Glad you enjoyed it!!!!
Nice video, Is always good to know how things we use and love are made ... keep the good work
Hey I'm a bilingual channel here in Taiwan , welcome to check it out!! yea I don't know for what reason Taiwan manufactures a lot of good quality mountain bikes and treadmill, but It's good to check the actual factory out
This example of craftmanship is second to none. To be able to mass produce suspension that works soooo well is magical. Thanks for sharing, guys. 🤜💪💪
Thanks for watching!!!!
CNC machinery is now called craftsmanship? Get outta here
@@janeblogs324Relax and take that negative energy somewhere else ✌️
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching!!!
Great video. I love factory tours.
Really cool video :) I got the chance to visit them last year and hopefully this year again :D Always great to talk to the DVO guys.
Such an awesome crew!
Nice people there😃 im starting the search for a DVO fork thanks to you 💪🤟
So awesome!!!!
I always geek out on manufacturing processes. I also love DVO and have read articles about this situation. Great video. Love goes out to everyone involved in the facility. I love your products! PS.: please bring back the emerald :D
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
Real Masters of their trade!! My SR Suntour lasted the same time like the frame . Almost 15 years. Too notch quality. And by 15 years I mean: riden hard and almost everyday .......
Really cool tour! Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a magical place filled with whimsy and pixie dust.
Super interesting to see the manufacturing process. Thanks! :)
Our pleasure!
Great content guys i love this stuff !
Glad you liked it!!! Thank you!!
Fan of DVO shock and saving money for the fork. Shout out and Thanks to Bobby from customer support too😊
Bobby is awesome!!! So is DVO!
Interesting look into the production side of things. I have been running a SR Suntour Durolux 36 on my current build and really like it a lot despite its weight. Have been considering a DVO for my next build, so this was a really cool look into things.
Thanks for watching!!! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Santour is making very high quality products in very good prices... Thanks them much!!!!
Yes they are!!!
Sweet! Thanks for making the video and hurry back to Taiwan!
Thanks for showing us around! We would but we need to detox from all the boba! 😂😂
Really cool of them to let you put this out.
We can’t believe it either, super awesome of them! We couldn’t have done it without Bryson and DVO!
Very cool video! I love my DVO fork/shock.
Same here!
still loving my Emerald!!!
Amazing fork!!
I used Suntour hubs and other misc parts on my bmx bike back in the early 80s, so it's no question of how long they've been around. I was turned onto DVO after purchasing my 21 Intense Carbine. Couldn't have been at a better time as I have a disdane for RS and Fox.
Dvo is awesome!!!!
@moandhannahtravel On my retired S Brand FSR Bighit it came stock with the Zocchi Jr. T, which I loved. So far on my Intense I've upgraded to the Onxy D1 fork with the OEM Topaz T1 outback. Hopefully soon upgrading to the Jade X coil soon. Or the upcoming new DVO air shock.
Really enjoyed this behind the scenes factory tour.
Glad you liked it!!!!
Extremely interesting!
I liked it! Very instructive and impressive!👍🏻
Glad you liked it!! Thank you!!!
Great video, thanks
Thanks for watching!!!
Love the DVO crew!
They are awesome! Hope you guys are great!!!!
So cool! Great video.
Thank you!!!
So cool..thank you for sharing..from Queensland Australia 💯 very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
Great intel, thanks.
Thanks for watching!!!
Very cool. I didn't know that DVO was formed by the prior who left Marzocchi or how they do sub-manufacturing at SR-Suntour
Bryson has been doing this for so long it’s awesome!! Thanks so much for watching!!!
Nice work Mo&Hanna.
Thank you!!!!
I'll still joke I run a SR Suntour Diamond.
Effing fantastic seeing the manufacturing side of things.
I love my DVO diamond. First fork i fully serviced at home. Love my manitou stuff as well
So awesome!!!
Still use suntour bmx freewheel on my bmx bikes from the 80s
Awesome video 👍
Thank you!!!
Wonderful
Thanks!
I had never heard of DVO before. When I was researching new mountain bikes and came across Fezzari, it was spec’d with DVO. After riding it, the DVO are awesome. I’m sure what I have are lower end but sure don’t feel like it.
That’s the awesome thing with DVO! Top of the line performance for a fraction of the cost! Stoked you found them and Fezzari!
pretty darn cool!
@@moandhannahtravelI absolutely love my Fezzari Delano Peak too.
Cool video!
Thank you!!!
I put DVO on my Levo and it's the best shock that I have owned 👍
So awesome!
WOW! that's cool!
So awesome!!!
Cool!!!
Thanks!
It's so interesting that your first video in Taiwan is about a bike factory, you might be the only one on UA-cam lol
We are stoked for the opportunity for sure!
There's a factory insider ehos got a podcast channel about all the Taiwan factory's and what goes on etc there's also a movement to Vietnam for cheaper manufacturing costs as Taiwan now is matching China and Japan so its moving on again and what he said there a wee bit about moving stuff to Vietnam was like a look of should u have said that haha!
bellissimi video
Thank you!!
Fan to DVO too...4 things on my bike (Suspensions,saddle and saddle stem )
So awesome!
Hey - I knew you would get there - enjoy Taiwan a really great place.
We love it there!!
i love DVO
We do too!!
I love suntour ❤
They are awesome!!
Great content! Still waiting for the new 38 DH fork.... To arrive and i Hope it will available in 27.5
Thank you!!!
The die cast machines are definitely newer than the stuff we deal with at work. Some of our stuff is over thirty years old. At our other shop nothing is more than five years old.
We stopped making stuff out of magnesium years ago. One time I was making magnum hammers and the mold opened up and metal got on the floor. If you counted to three the metal shot up into the air when it cooled.
I don't even know if anyplace molds magnesium in the USA anymore. We were one of the last in the car industry. We also do the biggest pieces in a Harley Davidson police motorcycle crankset too. We are about an hour away from Milwaukee so if something's not is screwed up we can ship new stuff to them easily.
So crazy!!!! Was awesome to see in person!
Hadir dari indonesia perakitan fork santaour yag luar biasa👍👍👍
太讚了啦！
SR Suntor like Giant is a huge player in the bike industry. They make a large amount of products for top brands. Most companies are borrowing or licensing various aspects of components or processes from these major manufacturers in Taiwan. I wounder who else is being built in this facility?
Would be interesting to know!
Ive been to various bike industry factories. Its quite impressive to see how hard people work to get you your bike parts. They let you shoot inside which is good. In Japan they dont let you shoot inside a factory.
It’s such a cool experience! Stoked we got to see it!
We do not allow cameras inside our factory here in the USA either.
We spend way too much money on redoing the cavities after they send them to us. The overflows, etc is where the money is. The actual part is the easy part to figure out.
When you diecast parts it releases gas and you have to cast more than the part actually takes and so you gotta have certain areas that the metal overflows and the part is still good. We have an entire department for that stuff in three different die cast plants. Sometimes I had to take die cast died apart everyday for weeks on end.
The most annoying part was when an engineer would wait until Friday when they left for the weekend and expect to have the die running by Monday at like five a.m. and I already had put in five ten hour days. That is one of the reasons I finally quit that job...they still call me Everytime someone quits.
how does one start a factory? does one have to ahve an idea then go to someone with the money to buy the machines and hire a few people to run them?
Really makes me wonder how good the SR Suntour suspension is. The quality should be as good as DVO so I'm sure it's not bad.
It’s really good! They are both amazing companies!!!
It's not about the bike but it's the biker that's matter although a good bike makes a good rider!!!
Where are the head set spacers
Really gets the hair up
We used to have these all over uk
Does feel like we binned it all far to easily
Didn’t know that!
We get all our parts for the die cast blocks out of China.. crap cracks too easy and we have to weld them up all the time
The stuff we used to get here in the USA used to last us all year into we got new stuff at the end of the year...they went to Chinese crap because in the short term it cost less money and our died were owned by our customers not us so we used what they gave us to use.
I mean the die cavities. The blocks that we put them inside it doesn't seem to matter where they are made because the molten aluminum doesn't go on them anyways.
Taiwan is one of the biggest bicycle brands hub in Asia. They also have the best local bikes in the world.
So true!!
@@moandhannahtravel they’ll be surprised how many big brands are going there for mass manufacturing. 😅
My favorite/dream fork in my bike but I don't have money to buy..someday...😢😊
Wow this is really similar to japanese factory.
Such an awesome setup!
Suntour la marca de suspensiones para MTB que se ganó la fama de ser un fabricante de productos de gama baja, al parecer nunca superaran a Fox y Rockshok..... ojala que puedan mejorar sus suspensiones.
Suntour forks and other suspension parts are delivered to the bicycle manufacturers (the OEMs). Some Suntour firks are heavy but mostly reliable. In the 1980-ies Suntour used to produce good shifters, derailleurs, cassettes, brakes - groupsets for MTB, Touring, Racing and so on. Some folks might remember for example the Suntour Superbe Pro groupset. Some parts were better than Shimano. Today are here and there also Suntour cranks. They could come back with their great Suntour thumb shifters and other parts. That would be appreciated. Suntour also belongs somehow to Shimano, some people say.
Thanks for the info!
DVO and Sun Tour are made in the same factory?? 🤯
I always wondered who both DVO and SR Suntour were, no I know, time to do some more reading.
Both are awesome companies!!!
Sepedaku juga pakai fork suspensi SR Suntour
So cool!
Ive worked in a few machine shops here in SoCal (Burbank, Simi, Fullerton). This looks a lot nicer lol
It was a very insane operation! So cool to see in person!
im listening to the factory floor through headphones and boy i felt i needed ear protection, i hope the workers there have good PPE
Lol
Taiwan No. 1 in bicycle.
I kinda view Taiwan as Japan in the 80s.Both initially had a bad reputation as cheap mass manufacturing but quickly became recognized for very high quality. Unfortunately, I think Taiwan has still has that stigma but their bike manufacturing is top notch.
They also produce some of the highest quality production knives. Spyderco has manufactures in Colorado, Japan and Taiwan and it's their Taiwan facility that is recognized for producing the highest quality knives, not the US and not Japan, impressive.
Thanks for that fun fact!
Nica factory
meanwhile my 1 week old xc30's damper has a hitting sound
We have 8 bicycles in our family. For 4 of them I bought a suntour raidon plug. I really like them👍
Gosto muito da marca DVO, acompanho o Bryson desde o início anos 2000.
Como moro no Brasil, fico com receio se precisar de alguma peca de reposição, aqui é imposto em cima de imposto, e quando precisa importar algo acabamos pagando em media 10x mais a mesma peça do que um norte americano.
Por isso acabei praticamente padronizando suspensão rock Shox em todas as bicicletas
How is the mountain biking in Brazil??
@@moandhannahtraveleu prático mtb a 20 anos, então posso dizer que presenciei todos os altos e baixos no esporte por aqui, atualmente a cultura "no dig no Ride" funciona, temos muitas opções de trilhas no país, bastante diversificadas, e cada ano que passa a cultura do bike park está aumentando.
Se não fosse a corrupção e impostos altíssimos, o país estaria mais evoluído no mountain bike downhill/enduro
Despite what was said about everything being available within a 20 radius, sadly nothing is available to an end user. I one tried to order a hub made by SR and was made only a few kms from where I lived, but even if I ordered from amazon, they "unfortunately do not ship this item to your country". I eventually got it after asking every single person I knew in the industry if they had any connections to SR, and I got it for next to nothing too!
So interesting!
It'd be cool if we had these kinds of factories here in the U.S. I wonder why we don't?
Costs mostly, you can probably hire 4 Taiwan skilled workers for the price of 1 in USA. So it’s cheaper to outsource it to be made overseas and ship back for sales locally and still beat any competitor in both cost and better price.
@@zurielsss So how did we get to a place where the United States, which was long the undisputed experts on manufacturing, can't produce something as simple as a bicycle? It almost seems like there has been a coordinated effort to remove these industries and by extension, these types of jobs leaving us with very little left to do...
@@cf5914 there is no coordinated effort , globalisation and cheaper shipping and tariffs made outsourcing manufacturing feasible.
Same thing is also happening to Taiwan themselves , jobs and factories are relocating to Vietnam where labour is cheap and shipping is not expensive.
UK use to be the heart of industrialisation and manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution , people steal the technology and formulas and set up similar factories in USA to undercut British factories.
@@zurielsss But wouldn't governments have to have facilitated the globalization on behalf of these corporations, thereby abandoning the citizens that they are elected to represent?
@@cf5914 governments don’t think that far ahead, they had no idea globalisation will make local industry obsolete. Companies just saw the numbers and made a more profitable decision back when this started.
There is no conspiracy to move jobs away, newer technology and communications, with lower shipping costs and logistics made it possible.
The Washington apple and US Navy oranges effectively priced out nearby farmers (I am in east Asia) despite being an ocean away.
And yes, governments should address the problem that there is always a “leftover labour” population who have been made obsolete by globalisation. Probably by retraining them to new careers, but no government seems to be able to do it effectively
why they don't sell it here in taiwan?
They don't?
My god my money is being well spent when I buy a fork I see 🎉❤❤❤❤
Yeah everything will move to Nam soon with Taiwan costs near matching china to manufacture specilized have 3 factorys in Taiwan they'll do the same, I've never had a good experience on an SR SUN TOUR fork even today if i see a bike with anything suntour i skip past it! I've raced alot back on early 2000s had sponsors using suntour yuk and can't believe there still making them elastomer forks there real bad! Wouldn't put my kid on a bike with them!
The first thing that stood out to me was nobody is wearing safety glasses! That would never fly in a large US Manufacturer.
Never ever liked to have suntour on my bikes.....Fox, Manitou Xtr or SRAM only no exceptions !!
Почему пневмо на воздухе не делаете. Насосом можно всегда накачать давление.. И задние ароматизаторы на заднее колесо. А почему не из тавровой балки алюминиевой, эту балку можно ещё усилить пару листами по всей длине. И вся она проваривается везде.
Most metal works are from Taiwan
Nice to see that there is no reason a fork costs 1k
These are multi million dollar machines and employees being paid a fair wage. Not to mention countless hours of engineering it took to design these forks and manufacturing process!
What does JP do 😂
😂😂😂
rockshox #1 that`s it
This is our "clean room"
All have long hairs
All wearing their shoes without any cover
"Clean" sure...
Hairnets are sometimes worn but it depends on what SR Suntour’s policy is, their shoes are changed at the door before entry.
Nice factory, although I don't see anyone wearing safety glasses
They were very safe!
It's a business and YOU are the primary unit of revenue extraction. I met some very good people in the bike biz in many different countries. In fact, the vast majority were really decent chaps - and a few great ladies as well. But, they simply want your money. When the money stops so does the friendliness and loyalty, but that's the harsh reality of trade. Unfortunately, things are not good for many at the moment. The money that should keep everyone smiling isn't flowing as freely as it needs to. I'm rather glad to be out of it and retired.