Where are all the Klein riders?!?
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Where are all the Klein riders?!?
Post em if you got em!
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Klein has this deal where you need to buy $60,000 in bikes straight up to be a dealer, even if you are already a trek dealer, so there are very few klein dealerships, and fewer and fewer kleins. Sucks because they made nice bikes with awesome paint jobs.
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He probably wont be able to get anymore in, we have 5 or 6 in the shop I work at, but thats it. We cant get any others. And we have the official klein dealer stickers on our windows too.
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the only difference now is that they only sell them in the Japan market..
I had a 95 Klein and a 98 Klein and they both had great frames that climbed like a goat on crank..
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I know that this is an old thread, but...
I just had to chime in here because I built up my Klein Adriot last summer and since then I have ridden it all summer, fall, winter, and now into this spring. I have never been more impressed by a mountain bike in the 15 years that I have been riding. This thing climbs like the proverbial billy goat on speed. It handles like it is on rails and is as precise as a scalpel. It puts power to the ground and accelerates like a big block Chevy with race slicks. It just feels like this bike wants you to go faster and turn tighter.
Yes, the ride can be a bit harsh, but come on, it’s a hardtail. If you accept that fact and work with the bike, pick a good line and keep the cranks turning you will be handsomely rewarded. Ever since assembling this frame I am much faster than I used to be and am now smoking my riding buddies, even the ones on full suspension bikes. I do ride in the north east, with tighter trails, that are more conducive to this type of bike, so that might be part of it, but regardless, I am faster.
Bike Set-Up:
1999 (I think) Klein Adroit frame (size M)
Manitou SX Carbon Fork
MC3 head set
TiTec Hell bent bars
SRAM X0 Drive train and shifters
Race Face XC crank
Avid speeddial TI levers
Avid single digit 7 brakes
Egg Beater candy TI pedals
Mavic Xmax rims
Thomson Seat Post
WTB Pro saddle Ti
Yes, the ride can be a bit harsh, but come on, it’s a hardtail. If you accept that fact and work with the bike, pick a good line and keep the cranks turning you will be handsomely rewarded. Ever since assembling this frame I am much faster than I used to be and am now smoking my riding buddies, even the ones on full suspension bikes. I do ride in the north east, with tighter trails, that are more conducive to this type of bike, so that might be part of it, but regardless, I am faster.
Bike Set-Up:
1999 (I think) Klein Adroit frame (size M)
Manitou SX Carbon Fork
MC3 head set
TiTec Hell bent bars
SRAM X0 Drive train and shifters
Race Face XC crank
Avid speeddial TI levers
Avid single digit 7 brakes
Egg Beater candy TI pedals
Mavic Xmax rims
Thomson Seat Post
WTB Pro saddle Ti
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Mantra Comp...
I would seriously consider it. I have had two Klein bikes. My current is the one specified above. The first was a Pulse Comp. I have nothing but great things to say about Klein. Their frame quality and geometry are first class. I have rode some very nice machines that are more “advanced”, and some which cost double, but I keep gravitating back to Kleins.
Worse case if you don’t like it you can throw it on ebay. There is a Mantra frame selling for almost that right now, and a full bike for almost $600.
Try a Klein. You will not regret it.
I would seriously consider it. I have had two Klein bikes. My current is the one specified above. The first was a Pulse Comp. I have nothing but great things to say about Klein. Their frame quality and geometry are first class. I have rode some very nice machines that are more “advanced”, and some which cost double, but I keep gravitating back to Kleins.
Worse case if you don’t like it you can throw it on ebay. There is a Mantra frame selling for almost that right now, and a full bike for almost $600.
Try a Klein. You will not regret it.
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Count me in. I'm a Klein rider. But, we are roadies.
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Anyone remember the old late 80s Klein magazine ads, with the Guards red Klein road bike (aluminum oversized tubes) on the Porsche 911 roof rack, where the image was inverted, so the car was riding atop the Klein?
I'd kill for a wallpaper quality scan of that old ad.. I used to love that thing.
Made me want a Klein for years and years.
I'd kill for a wallpaper quality scan of that old ad.. I used to love that thing.
Made me want a Klein for years and years.
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They've all been outsourced to another country to return as something called a Trek. The death of the American Bicycle industry. The country with the largest number of bicycles in the world and we get them somewhere else. Real Kleins....real bikes. Kill that death creak with a new BB and keep the memory going. Every Sienfeld episode makes me cry to see that one hanging in the back.
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Ran into Gary Klein recently, he was leading a group ride (entourage?). Most of the group were riding specialized, Gary was riding a- Klein.
Back in '98 or so I looked over next to me at the start line at a race and there was Gary.
Klein factory was 30-40 miles south of here. Hope he's retired and sittin' on a wad of Trek money.
Back in '98 or so I looked over next to me at the start line at a race and there was Gary.
Klein factory was 30-40 miles south of here. Hope he's retired and sittin' on a wad of Trek money.
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