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Klein Bikes - what they say...
The details make the bike. What makes a Klein bike a top bicycle?... Klein bikes attention to details. Throughout the years Klein bikes have constantly developed the finer points on our frames proving that the little things make the biggest difference. When you ride a Klein bicycle, you experience our obssession with detail with every pedal. Klein cycles has 18 patents on bike design improvements - is why a Klein bike rides faster /smoother / feels lighter / lasts longer and looks the best!
10 reasons why Klein are top for bicycle design:
carbon fiber
heat treated frames
gradient chainstays
zr9000 alloy
void free welds
internal cable routing
micro dropouts
stringent frame set alignment
airheadset
hand painting and detailing
Klein Bicycles History & Product Timeline
73 Gary Klein becomes interested in making Aluminum bicycle frames. Independent Project started to test cycle frames.
75 Built prototypes for International cycle show New York. Frames welded and fully heat treated.
76 Batch size had grown. Gary Klein / Jim Williams bought out inactive partners ending with only Gary Klein in the business.
80 Custom frames built and sold for $2000 and more.
81 range consisted of:
Klein Team Super Light Road
Klein Team Super Heavy Duty Road
Klein Stage Road
Klein Stage Tour Road
Models were custom built to order.
83 Mountain Klein now featuring a chain stay mountain UBrake or roller cam brake.
86 Klien bikes Elite Trail was used to win the first place at one of the 86 NORBA cycle races.
88 Pinnacle replaced Mountain Klein allowing room for more aggressive bike design.
89 In addition to Klein Custom frameset models, Team Super Road, Criterium, Stage & Advantage Klein offered the following models:
Klein Performance Road
Klein Quantum Road
Klein Kirsten - new road model with women's specific design
Klein Pinnacle Mountain Bike
Klein Top Gun - a new short wheel base XC Cross Country Mountain Bike design, symbolising Klein's first real attempt at a racing bike. Paramount Pictures had rights to names so name ‘Rascal' was used.
90
The Rascal MTB - a simpler racing bike approach was introduced with thinner tubes - the main difference was 1" head tube replacing Klein oversize head set. The Klien Attitude was a big advance in Klein mountain bikes since introducing of oversize Aluminum tubes.
91 Klein Adroit Mountain Bike makes appearance.
Klein bikes start using Strata monster oversize Aluminum unicrown fork replacing box crown Cro-Moly fork.
92 Klein use over-sized seattube with 31.6mil seat post plus larger frame tubes to reduce weight.
94 Klein bikes make Quantum Pro Criterium with Gradient 9320 frame tubes. Aeros composit fork. Weighing 3.9 pnds. Klein bikes also introduced Micro dropouts / Mission Control 2 ba r/stem combo /upgraded fork and gradient chain stay.
95 Klein Quantum Pro Road
Klein Quantum II Road
Klein Quantum Road bike
Klein Aeolus Tri-athlete Road
Klein Adroit MTB
Klein Attitude MTB
Klein Pulse MTB w/front suspension fork
Klein Fervor MTB
96 Klein Pulse Comp a new entry level Mountain bike frame.
97 Klein bikes quantum Race Road. New revision to quantum Series - first year offered as assembled bicycle. Stage road - New entry level sport/performance design Pulse MTB - Kl - first Klein full suspension design.
98 Klein New Karma Pave rear sus Hybrid developed.
99 Klein New Mantra Carbon bikes full suspension with Carbon main boom introduced. Mission Control three Road and MTB stems introduced.
00 New Klein Attitude designed made disk brake compatible. Custom colors and Fit program started.
01 Klein Adept MTB made - new cross country race - short travel full sus design.
02 Klein bikes ZR9000 Gradient Alu alloy introduced on Q-Pro Road and Adept MTB. Klein QPro Carbon Road introduced ZR9000 alloy plus bond Carbon fiber wishbone stays.
03 Introducing New Klien Q-Carbon Compact ZR9000 with high modulus Carbon Fiber wishbone seat stays. New Klien Palomino Full suspension XC / All Mountain MTB using Maverick Suspension “Mono-Link” rear suspension.
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