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Name: | Sekine Headbadge |
Brand: | Sekine |
Badge Type: | Metal Attached |
Frame Types: | Vintage Lightweights |
Country: | Canada |
Years: | 1970's |
Added By: | JFischer on 02/17/08 |
Updated By: | JFischer on 02/17/08 |
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Sekine bicycles are imported Japanese frames for a Canadian company. See Link. |
In the early seventies, perhaps even late sixties, the Canadian government, feeling pressure from a major domestic bicycle manufacturer who happened to have a bit of a strangle hold on the Canadian bicycle market at the time, elected to impose an import tariff on bicycles coming into the country. In an effort to avoid this twenty-five percent tax, Sekine Cycles opened shop in Oo-za-we-Kwun Rivers, in the province of Manitoba. The year was 1973.
Full history can be read here: Sekine Cycles History.