All of the Sette branded products are made by the same factories that make everything for everybody else so the quality is there. I've used many of road components like bars, stems, seat posts, and all are excellent quality. As far as shoes, they are almost identical to those offered by a large bike company I used to work for and most-likely made in the same factory. I have one of the new Sette complete road bikes and those are fabulous as well. With the bike industry in general, unless you are buying custom hand-made stuff, all regular high-production stuff comes out of a handfull of factories, so you are really only buying one particular brand name over another when the actual components themselves are nearly identical.