Head tube badges good and bad

Following discussion on Cotic’s new effort, which brands do it well and which do it badly? Pictures or it didn’t happen.

A couple of my favourites…

Like the Brazed on ‘O’ on my Onza. Can’t do pics though.

☝️was just about to post a Raleigh one! Mostly for nostalgia purposes

I’ve always liked the Rocky Mountain one. Anything with a real head badge rather than a logo or brand name painted on is cool. Intense, Salsa, Singular are nice.

Good

Less good

Good (old) game on PinkBike…

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/quiz-can-you-guess-the-bike-brand-from-the-headtube-badge.html

Good, has to be the btr one (sure someone cleverer than me can post a pic)

Sanderson is good imo

Ragley

The BTR one reminds me of the early Pyga head tube badges.

My Pyga OneTen falls into the less good category.

This is mine.

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And I’ll second the new Cotic one as not so good.

I always like the old Yeti ones

https://images.app.goo.gl/TzfcPKySoLJrcycZ8

Yes they are waaaaay better than the current Yeti badges, which are perfectly fine anyway.

I get the BTR one but I’m not really a fan of it.

Perhaps because their bikes look like radiators anyway, so that badge doesn’t help.

Bought a retro ‘brass’ Raleigh HB for my Gbike recently after bags/cables rubbed the current one into a razor blade.
AliExpress £3 well spent

Always liked the old production privee cut out badge, sometimes less is more.

https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p4pb8853566/p4pb8853566.jpg

@Bregante agreed. Gutted they changed it.

Sorry but the new Cotic badge is a big improvement. I’m not in love with it but the old one is corny and juvenile. It looks like a teenagers scribble of a regrettable tattoo idea.

The new one is much classier and will be much less embarrassing on a t-shirt or something.

Merak – very nice.
Will post a pic of my indy fab sterling silver one; its on a fully re-furbed steel deluxe.

New Cotic is an improvement imho. Wasn’t a fan of the old one. Also the new DT logo style just looks cleaner. The new FS bikes look on another level now, to me.

Eighteen’s is good, logo/type is smart.

Always liked my Jones’s head badge. Kind of cliched in a good way. Scores 3 out of 4 on the Classic Elements of Headbadges – wings, wheels, mountains and fire.

I don’t think I’ve seen a 4 out of 4?

Yeti is an all-time classic imo, early ones as well as later ice axe versions.

Rather like the one on my new Kona

I like the one on my Sour a lot.

The new Cotic one is a vast improvement on the old grinning space hopper one, which as shark attack says looks like an early 2000s teenage tattoo.

+1 for 18 bikes, ace headtube badge.

Always had a soft spot for the spooky bikes logo as well.

Starling are good too.

Like Orange, it’s metal but not trying to be retro or overly fussy.

I thought these custom guilloche head tube badges that Swarf offered were rather nice:

Each one is unique.

Lovely.

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I really like the simple designs like the nukeproof badge or the evil badge. Think some designs get too complicated.

(Sorry, cant put up photos on my phone, still not learned the dark arts needed to do it on this site)

I quite like the ones I’ve started putting on my frames.

It’s a thistle and rose intertwined to represent my little Scottish/English household. Laser cut from stainless and I engrave each one.

Always liked the simplicity of Ibis

I love the Kona one above, definitely my favourite.
Although I have a Cotic with old badge, I think I prefer the simplicity of the new one. However, the new downtube graphics don’t float my boat at all – the wrapped ones looked miles better IMO.
RM.

I’m struggling to remember the brand and can’t find it online, but in the early nineties there was a brand with a super cool head badge that looked like it was integrated into the frame. I want to say Klein but can’t find it…
It was a face and the nose stuck out. I’m sure there was one in a shop in Lincoln that I used to drool over. If I’d had an 8000% pocket money raise I’d have bought it!

Belugabike headbadge

Do custom ones count?

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The Kingdom headtube badge looks class :)

Love the Nukeproof one, simple and stylish.
I had to remove the badge on my DMR trailstar2 years ago as my cables kept clicking on it, driving me mad.
Big elaborate badges on skinny headtubes look crap imo, the orange Cotic is my fave so far.