Honest question - what's so great about Kleins?

[feetabix]

Thanks for starting this thread Rob.

BITD and probably still now I'd like an attitude in the team USA colours.
I've never ridden one though. After reading this it makes me one want one again. Even if it's just to make my own mind up on them. What do they go for out of interest?

id say £500 bottom end tired and faded/poor kit up to £2500 top end comes with a weekend mud wrestling with 'the krankies'.......this end of the market is hard to define though, some people pay mega money if you can find them.....in the area of £1000 will get you a useable bike.....

 

[vinnya77]

Thanks for starting this thread Rob.

BITD and probably still now I'd like an attitude in the team USA colours.
I've never ridden one though. After reading this it makes me one want one again. Even if it's just to make my own mind up on them. What do they go for out of interest?

id say £500 bottom end tired and faded/poor kit up to £2500 top end comes with a weekend mud wrestling with 'the krankies'.......this end of the market is hard to define though, some people pay mega money if you can find them.....in the area of £1000 will get you a useable bike.....

Thanks for the reply, that is what I was thinking just needed to make sure.

Maybe I'll get lucky and P/X some Marins

 

[feetabix]

no worries....make sure you pm a link to the krankies video for me....

 

[vinnya77]

Would it be criminal if I found the right frame, forks and MC but wrong paint scheme to repaint it. Surely a lot have been repainted by now anyway.

 

[feetabix]

your bike....your way.........



it could affect future resale though......

 

[vinnya77]

your bike....your way.........



it could affect future resale though......

If its done well.

 

[tintin40]

you can have a go on mine next time were at hope cafe rob....i will hold your cake for you.... :roll:

I'm not sure just one bike will be enough for me to relinquish my cake, not even a Klein....... ;-) ;-)

Depends on the cake to

 

[feetabix]

your bike....your way.........



it could affect future resale though......

If its done well. How would they know? Does the colour have anything to do with serial numbers?

if the job is done well then it should be fine, honesty at point of resale paramount of course..... i would imagine records of colours do exist but i dont think they are serial number specific....there are higher levels of knowledge here than i though!....some of the collectors around the world would insist on original paint, or at least an accurate respray....your own concoction would be a great form of self expression but would narrow the market at resale time....i am a little less rigid though, i ride my klein regularly, it is after all a bicycle.....if you take the plunge just get on it and enjoy it as often as possible....if you choose to respray then go for it i say, we are none of us long for this world and there are no holes for the hose on your camelback in a shroud!......

 

[minor_LEGEND]

For me Klein's came to my attention when I got into MTB's & bought my first mags in early 90. Spying a Klein in a few pics I just knew they must be special. The forks looked huge, I'd never heard of Klein despite being from a cycling family & the colours simply jumped off the page.

I was only young (12 or so) but back then a bike was judged on it's weight & it's price tag. Piecing together any references read in mag articles & knowing an Attitude was alu meant it had to be light, it wasnt exactly listed in many shop ads etc so that elusive rarity factor meant that I would only spy these bikes in the mags.

Something I still remember to this day is arriving at the first race I ever entered (Quantock Pedaller 1991) & getting out of my dads car in the field & the 1st bike to pedal past was an Attitude in the day-glo on white paint scheme. It stopped me in my tracks, a dribbling, pointing 13 year old made to feel inferior on my £220 GT Talera.

Definately lust-worthy, rare in my part of the world & I hope people continue to cherish them for memories sake.

 

[Dick Scruttock]

Have it painted gloss black, meant to be a $xxxxxx factory option.