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The beauty of outsourcing is that the Chinese have all the engineering and manufacturing skills down, all you have to do is send them a sketch and they'll send back a price for something which will meet relevant standards. Bike design at this level is not something which needs much more than sticking reasonably close to established formulae anyway, tube diameters and wall thickness are well established, if you keep the geometry within a hand's width of what has gone before you'll end up with something which works, even if it's not actually lovely.