http://www.mensmountainbike.net The best place to find a mens mountain bike Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:03:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://www.mensmountainbike.net/specialized-mountain-bike/are-specialized-mountain-bike-frames-made-by-giant http://www.mensmountainbike.net/specialized-mountain-bike/are-specialized-mountain-bike-frames-made-by-giant#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:31:59 +0000 Rob Chrin http://www.mensmountainbike.net/specialized-mountain-bike/are-specialized-mountain-bike-frames-made-by-giant I recently bought a new Specialized mountain bike and was later told I could have saved a lot of money by purchasing a Giant mountain bike instead because the Specialized frames are made by Giant. Is this true?

Specialized are built by Merida, a competitor of Giant in Taiwan. Some of the confusion comes from several years ago when Giant used the Horst link on their NRS race bikes. Specialized holds the patent on the Horst link, and Giant had to pay a royalty to use the design.

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