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  • Depends which Taiwanese stuff; any 4130 drawn to the same guage/butting profile by a good mill would be the same. Reynolds 520 isn't even made at a Reynolds factory, it's outsourced.

    thats the whole point of 520, manufacturers wanted to use reynolds but it was too expensive to ship out tubing from Birmingham to Taiwan. So its made to reynolds spec and badged under license. Taiwan has some really amazing manufacturing when they dont have to make a complete bike for 2p. All the steel BMX frames, and some 'fixie' frames such as the genesis flyer are good examples.

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