Please help identify this bike brand
02-24-23, 10:30 PM
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Please help identify this bike brand
I can't identify this brand/logo that's on the steerer tube of a fork for a steel track/SS frame. It looks like a "K" to me. Anyone recognize this?
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02-25-23, 01:16 AM
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is there anything stamped under the bottom bracket or on the front base of the seat tube?
Not sure what I am looking at there ... it looks like a seat post but it looks like it is stuffed into a headset. It looks way too long to be the steerer on a threadless fork ... but i could be wrong there, too.
Not sure what I am looking at there ... it looks like a seat post but it looks like it is stuffed into a headset. It looks way too long to be the steerer on a threadless fork ... but i could be wrong there, too.
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02-26-23, 01:34 PM
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02-26-23, 01:43 PM
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is there anything stamped under the bottom bracket or on the front base of the seat tube?
Not sure what I am looking at there ... it looks like a seat post but it looks like it is stuffed into a headset. It looks way too long to be the steerer on a threadless fork ... but i could be wrong there, too.
Not sure what I am looking at there ... it looks like a seat post but it looks like it is stuffed into a headset. It looks way too long to be the steerer on a threadless fork ... but i could be wrong there, too.
02-27-23, 06:39 AM
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is there anything stamped under the bottom bracket or on the front base of the seat tube?
Not sure what I am looking at there ... it looks like a seat post but it looks like it is stuffed into a headset. It looks way too long to be the steerer on a threadless fork ... but i could be wrong there, too.
Not sure what I am looking at there ... it looks like a seat post but it looks like it is stuffed into a headset. It looks way too long to be the steerer on a threadless fork ... but i could be wrong there, too.
I can't identify this brand/logo that's on the steerer tube of a fork for a steel track/SS frame. It looks like a "K" to me. Anyone recognize this?
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02-27-23, 06:53 AM
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How old is the bike? I don't think Kinesis have been around all that long.
02-27-23, 07:47 AM
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Yes. Kinesis. Here’s a version of their logo
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02-27-23, 07:52 AM
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Good call, Mr. Cyccommute. I thought it might have been a Kalloy seat post ... but the logo didn't match. I never even thought of Kinesis.
02-27-23, 01:17 PM
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Yes. Kinesis. Here’s a version of their logo
(cyccommute's link directs to a page with this logo)
Related and also in response to bboy314, the Kinesis UK team reached out and confirmed that no one there recognizes the logo. Apparently there is a separate Taiwanese subsidiary that might have used the logo. I've reached out to them also, but I now have doubts that it's from Kinesis.
(Email from Kinesis UK customer support to the original poster)
Thanks everyone for weighing in.
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02-27-23, 01:20 PM
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Thanks cyccommute. The link you supplied takes you to the below image, which is not the same logo, though similar. Not sure if that's the one you were referring to...
(cyccommute's link directs to a page with this logo)
Related and also in response to bboy314, the Kinesis UK team reached out and confirmed that no one there recognizes the logo. Apparently there is a separate Taiwanese subsidiary that might have used the logo. I've reached out to them also, but I now have doubts that it's from Kinesis.
(Email from Kinesis UK customer support to the original poster)
Thanks everyone for weighing in.
(cyccommute's link directs to a page with this logo)
Related and also in response to bboy314, the Kinesis UK team reached out and confirmed that no one there recognizes the logo. Apparently there is a separate Taiwanese subsidiary that might have used the logo. I've reached out to them also, but I now have doubts that it's from Kinesis.
(Email from Kinesis UK customer support to the original poster)
Thanks everyone for weighing in.
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03-05-23, 11:38 PM
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Yes. That’s the one I was referring to. It’s close enough.
Kinesis has been around for a long time. Started in 1989 by former Giant bicycle employees. They made (and make) a lot of bikes that are rebadged.
Kinesis has been around for a long time. Started in 1989 by former Giant bicycle employees. They made (and make) a lot of bikes that are rebadged.
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03-06-23, 12:55 AM
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It's also possible that only the fork is made by Kinesis. Kinesis made a lot of carbon and aluminum forks and they were widely used by many manufacturers.
03-06-23, 10:38 PM
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