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It's a question of volume and capital- we build to order, it's a very lean process in that we don't have lots of capital tied up in stock, which is handy as we don't have lots of capital.
To be taken seriously by a Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturer we'd need to order in a fairly significant number of forks- which a) ties up capital and b) creates a risk that we end up holding stock that has been rendered obsolete by, say, Columbus introducing a £190 road disc fork with eyelets that is freely available.