[Closed] show us your Kleins!

Very fast but surprisingly forgiving...

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However, mostly found with trailer bike attached towing my kids

Daffys Klien is the best looking hardtail i've ever seen

nice...what type is that?

ahhh the ugly ol' goat...
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'94 Attitude, backfire colours. Sadly no more.
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'96 Attitude. Bit better spec'd since this photo. My favourite bike.
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Still racing on it too.
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'01 Adept. My long day in the saddle bike.
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'95 Pulse, my work horse. This has been used soooo much over the years.
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Also got a black Pulse II frame waiting in the wings just in case.

That goat looks like a pony to me, and not a bad looking one.

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Technically a posh Trek, but it was good

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Plenty of old school Kleins over at [url]www.retrobike.co.uk[/url]

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not mine but off a website:
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nice frame 😉

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Those last 2 do it for me

if I could have had any bike when I was 14, it was this

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Love the shots, whats thehistory of Klein, were they bought out by Trek or was Trek formed out of Klein.

How rare sre these bikes and do they command ahigh second hand value.

More pics please

Trek bought Klein, Bontrager, Gary Fisher and Icon. Then basically used them as brand names, bit like VW using skoda, Seat, etc...
The Klein brand lost more and more of their identity until they disappeared 😥

So what happened to their designers engineers, got absorbed into the mighty Trek?

The suspension bike with the amazing lay back seat post and long shock did it work?

The hard tails look great especially the first pic, but there again I like hard tails, pity about my knees.

brakes - so right about that... used to be a bike shop in manchester called the bike shed that had one in.

more eye catching frames
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I love those colour paint jobs!

Those full sus early Kleins are sort of neat, I didn't realise they did them.

>The suspension bike with the amazing lay back seat post and long shock did it work?

Isn't that just the Maverick (?) design of about 4-5 yrs ago ?

brakes/xcstu - my lbs had one in the window for quite some time...luurvelly. About the only other things around at the time with anything like as nice fillet welding were 'dales - I bought an M600 about then.

Oh, on the retro bike front, saw an (e-stay) Nishiki Alien in Godalming last weekend, haven't seen one for bloomin' years...

Said in M&S 'Slo-motion food' advert voice:

"These aren't just pictures of bikes, this is... B.I.K.E P.O.R.N."

xcstu and brakes - those are probably the nicest looking bikes I've ever seen, ever, ever, ever!!

Why don't bike manufacturers bother to make really good looking bikes anymore? I mean FFS, those two bikes are mobile works of art!! Most of the stuff produced today just looks so.... sortof... joylessly purposeful. As if it's like we're not really allowed to be having fun anymore, because we've gota be Xtreeme, man... Follow?

I have a Klein Attitude, which I keep warm and toasty in my lounge. I can just sit and absent mindedly take in its beautiful polished lightweight curves for hours, then head out for a blast on it.

Here's mine resting:

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and in anger at the Kelivie 24hr race in Tasmania:

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The suspension bike with the amazing lay back seat post and long shock did it work?

Isn't that just the Maverick (?) design of about 4-5 yrs ago ?

Brighton in the very early 90's there was a hike / bike shop on the road to the station who always seemed to have kleins in. Attitude is a bike I will own some day.

In my now enlightened stste I wiould SS one of these all day long.

Nice bikes. Rattle your fillings out mind.

[b]Wozza - Member[/b]
[i]Daffys Klien is the best looking hardtail i've ever seen[/i]

I was hoping it would be posted up here by this morning.

You can have a SS Klein and save your fillings - there was a bloke on the old forum with a rigid sinlge-speeded Klein Mantra in a yellow and black colour scheme.

The Mantra was a URT suspension frame so SS no problem, and the idea behind the rigid conversion was to get the suspension in the middle to give a bit of comfort front and rear.

Anyone know if that bike's still going?

there's someone selling an attitude on ebay at the mo - i saw it eysterday

Talking of Mantra's there's a fella must be in his mid forties lives in my suburb has an immaculate yellow and black mantra, stock as a rock except for a ludicrously steep shonky silver stem. He looks like he's never even thought of riding it off road, leaves it unlocked outside a cafe and bimbles along the pavement with shopping bags hanging off the handlebars.

Yup... a friend of mine has had an immaculate 1996 Klein Attitude that he's had locked away for years. I don't think he's ever (literally!) done more than 20 miles on it since 1996. The thing's like a ferkin' time capsule!!

I have eyes for it.. 8)

Might have to have a look for a mantra.

Ive been looking for SS able full sus frames, this may be an option.

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love that last blue job Glen and those fire colours mike are devine! There's something about [s]Mary[/s] a Klein 😉

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Hopefully a pic of my Adept, lovely bike and still going strong

I want one of these (to keep the palomino company!)
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Back in about 97 I'd just wrecked a rather nice steel Marin frame and wandered into the lbs thinking about an alternative. The guy who worked there asked if I'd seen the new Klein range - first ones released after Trek bought them out. He pretty much forced me out of the door to try one out. I'd been thinking about a post-Trek Bontrager but I ordered a Pulse the next day.

Terrible spec - crappy RS forks, gripshift, cheap Bonty wheels, etc - but it only cost about £750 iirc. I bought a Pace fork, USE seatpost then I swapped all my XT/XTR stuff off the broken Marin. It weighed just under 24lb with nothing particularly exotic hanging off it.

I raced it for about 5 years, everything from Enduro6, MM, Welsh series xc. Rode it over the Atlas mountains. Rode it for training, club rides. Everything. It wasn't harsh at all - the comments about rattling fillings out are so far from the truth...... It just went as fast as you could possible pedal it, and you could feel it saying ' Come on then, just a bit more.'

The frame was pretty much a Trek frame, but if that was a budget Klein, I wish I'd got there earlier to get a proper Klein.

Possibly the best bike I ever bought. Still got it, now as a SS, which it does very well.

Anyone know what Gary Kleins doing nowadays?
Have had an orange/yellow sunburst Mantra Race in bits in the garage at the moment - tempted to put it back on the trail having looked at the above....

I spoke to Gary Klein once. The riv nuts loosened on my attitude and he was very happy to help sort it. (do I win?)

Also , knowing what an expense it is to get the airhead bearings replaced I bought the proper Klein tool. Still not had reason to use it on my 12 year old attitude though, which is not bad going for a well used bike.

Bit like IdleJohn.
Got my Pulse in 97 and it is still in (albeit rarified) use today.
Can't bring myself to flog it.

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Resting @ CyB approx 2006:
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A late entry on behalf of inkleined...

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Thanks for that input Nuke,
The late entry above is a 2001 Adept race, well used and shod in winter attire, the bike came with rolf race disc hoops, hayes hydraulic brakes
braided hoses, fox float shock, still going strong. Ive changed out the 80mm Manitou fork for a rockshock reba 100. used as 'winter hack' and 'fat burn' 40 miles plus mile muncher. Great bike.

INKLEINED

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2001? it looks well ahead of its time, I really like it, what is the rear travel on it?