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This same guy also contacted CC, who said these may be CCs own Taiwan-machined arms which failed QC and I presume were knocked together for back-door sales. CC were also unsurprisingly negative about the quality.
Thats interesting. I'd assumed real ee brakes were made in America. The £600 price tag is even more laughable if they are Taiwan sourced.
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I'd assumed real ee brakes were made in America
I think they were 10 years ago, before EE Cycle Works discovered that they couldn't make money from such a product and partnered with the much larger Cane Creek to make and sell their designs.
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Indeed, I thought this was one of the slightly embarrassing or revealing aspects of it for CC.
I'd assumed the same but it turns out they only say they're assembled in the USA. I'm sure they've sold a few pairs on people not noticing this distinction.
I saw a blog post on the cc website where they spent a few hundred words trying to avoid any explicit mention of China or Taiwan.
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I've also been really tempted by the EE copies so did a bit of digging. There was a thread on WW which got locked, but there's also an informative Paceline thread.
In amongst loads of hysterical hand-wringing about buying stolen goods, a couple of users bought them to compare, one has ridden them and reviewed them as "hot trash".
Look for posts by Krooj from this page onwards.
This same guy also contacted CC, who said these may be CCs own Taiwan-machined arms which failed QC and I presume were knocked together for back-door sales. CC were also unsurprisingly negative about the quality.
Still very interested to hear @BlackMath's verdict, after a (hopefully careful) test ride.