Thread: Early Kleins -- timeline for 1" headtubes
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Old 12-29-19 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Dylansbob
I found a relatively early Klein this fall. Press-fit bb and ..s.
A gentle "but ..." Relatively early Kleins didn't have press fit BBs. (Early Klein - think pre 1980. I did a quick spin on one in 1976.)

Those bikes and concept (fat, really stiff tubes, making a very light frame) was probably the single biggest game changer of the past half century or more for racing bikes. Everyone who rode any of Gary Klein's bikes knew instantly.

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