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Photo Credit: VeloBase User triumph_pilot
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Name: | Sekine Cycle Medialle |
Brand: | Sekine |
Badge Type: | Metal Attached |
Frame Types: | Vintage Lightweights |
Country: | Canada |
Years: | 1970's |
Added By: | triumph_pilot on 05/15/08 |
Updated By: | rancho66 on 09/30/14 |
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Ornate Sekine "Medialle" badge from the '70s.
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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.