Some may recall the catastrophic failure of my Kinesis Ti frame back in February of this year and more importantly the poor response from not only the LBS that l purchased the frame from, but also Kinesis (Upgrade Bikes).
So the hunt began to find a replacement frame vowing never to look at a Kinesis frame again.
The main criteria was that the frame must come with a life time warranty, so straight away that narrows the choice right down to just a couple of options, Reilly being one of them.
I had several discussions with Reilly Works and went to a couple of shows and decided that the Spectre was the one for me. Just the frame was circa £2.5k but as it was a disc frame and the one that failed was a rim brake frame, this meant a new groupset plus wheels etc. So all in all it was never going to be a cheap replacement, which l knew that right from the start.
Fast forward six months and l still hadn't taken the plunge with ordering the Reilly and maybe l had mellowed, maybe it was driven by cost, but l decided to email Upgrade Bikes to see if we could come to some sort of amicable agreement in terms of the cost of a replacement frame.
Needless to say and despite everything l said about Kinesis back in February, look what arrived today
