Kinesis USA Buys Mountain Cycle

Mountain Cycle and its Canadian Distributor Yodobike announced today that Mountain Cycle has been purchased by premiere US framebuilder, Kinesis USA. Company founder, Rob Reisinger will continue on as chief designer and the head of the brand. Mountain Cycle has been relocating to Portland from San Luis Obispo over the past month. Kinesis USA's CEO, Micheal Nover stated, "Robert is a talented designer and he is the major reason we were interested, he will focus on reestablishing the brand using our resources and manufacturing capabilities. Since we purchased most of Mountain Cycle's manufacturing equipment we can offer hydroforming and Robert's design expertise to our frame customers." The new Mountain Cycle will begin by producing the current line of frames with few changes. For model year 2003, it will likely introduce some new models along with updates to existing ones. The frames will continue to be made in the United States. This purchase was a bit of a surprise to me, as I had heard through reliable sources that Honda Motorcycles was interested in the company.

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