Kinetic Bike Bearings

20/01/2026

ROYAL MAIL POSTAGE HEADS-UP!

There is a pop-up message on our home page which says:

** ROYAL MAIL WARNING!! if you select our basic UK free post option be prepared to wait upto 5 working days as Royal Mail are particularly bad at present. All 'Tracked' parcels have been delivered next day recently**

So, some background on our free post option. So, for many years our free post service (RM24) was reliable and we very rarely had an issue. However, a few years ago the quality of service started deteriorating, and we gave a heads-up (on Facebook) that we might have to charge for postage with the basic service being tracked and a cost involved.

It seemed for some areas of the country the basic RM24 service was frequently taking up to a week (5 working days). We added this warning at checkout when selecting the postage for an order. We relented removing the RM24 free option as many customers were still getting their post swiftly.

However, it's reached a new low lately and orders are frequently taking longer then 5 working days and we are having to resend many orders.

It's difficult to get an official line, but quizzing some posties off the record, and reading between the lines, some conclusions we have come to are:

- Posties do not receive as many letters these days, sacks aren't as full so the justification for a daily delivery isn't there.

- There are frequently staffing issues at Royal Mail

- RM are prioritising parcels now, and this is getting busier. Most of our small orders are sent as a large letter (post box size) so basic services like RM24 are way down the priority list when things are busy in parcels.

For now, we will leave our postage matrix in place and closely monitor things, but we cannot stress enough, if your order is required within the week, please please select the 'Tracked' option

Likely scenario if this situation continues is we will remove free post RM24, with most packages being sent Tracked with a nominal charge. However, free 'Tracked' post will still be achieved over a set order value (to be determined).

Note: we don't currently pass on the full cost of a Tracked order – we charge £3, but it cost us nearer £5

14/11/2025

Kyocera ECOSYS P2040DN Printer Free to Collector (used for 1 day only)
We had this as a spare in case our other failed. Our current printer failed, and we dug this out this morning only to find out it doesn't do wifi printing.
Collection from ST18 9FJ from Monday onwards.

30/10/2025

Citrus Lime Cloud POS - we are working on a new csv file for upload. We know a lot of our customers use Citrus Lime, so does anyone have their standard import file template so that we can assist in getting our products in the correct format for you? if so, pls email to info@kineticbikebearings.com - many thanks :-)

16/10/2025

12/06/2025

Fresh delivery of Enduro just landed

11/07/2024

02/07/2024

31/05/2024

Kinetic T18 Carbon Road/Gravel/CX Frame.

BRAND NEW and yours for £999.99

We had 2 of these carbon frames custom painted with Kinetic brand name to be used as work-horses to test bearings for our business (Kinetic Bike Bearings). We built one up (which is a different colour way to this one for sale). The plan was to build one as a road bike and the other as a Gravel Bike. This one we have not got around to building, so it's now available to purchase.

These frames are so versatile. They road bike weight, but with tyre clearance for up to 42c tyres and will build up a great handling light-weight gravel/CX race bike. Alternatively, if you want a super-comfy, light, carbon road bike with larger capacity road tyres, then perfect also.

In a tasteful and classy custom one-off paint job.

Size: 56cm – suits 5'11 to 6'1
High Modulus Toray carbon
Flexible seat stays aid comfort and traction
12mm thru axles front and rear
Clearance for 42mm gravel tyres
Bottom Bracket: BSA (68mm)
Head Tube: 1-1/8” to 1-1/2” Tapered Integrated
Seat Tube: 27.2mm Diameter Seatpost
Frame Rear Space: 142 x 12mm Thru-axle
Fork Spacing: 100 x 12mm Thru-axle
Di2 and Mechanical Compatible
Brake Type: Flat Mount Disc Brake
Disc Rotor: 140 or 160mm
Cable Type: Internal cable

Supplied with:
Headset 1 1/8th to 1.5"
Seatpost clamp
12mm thru axles
Note, this is the same frame/fork as the highly rated Handsling CEXevo which retails at £1699.99 which you can read about here
https://road.cc/content/review/handsling-cexevo-sram-force-axs-299897

https://handslingbikes.com/products/2022-handsling-cexevo-frame-silver

22/04/2024

New larger stickers in stock - free with an order.

https://www.kineticbikebearings.com/parts/stickers.html

27/03/2024

Reminder Folks! Bank Holiday weekend is upcoming, so if you have bearings requirements please note orders received after 3pm on Thursday 28th March, will not leave us until Tues 2nd April. Thank you! have a fantastic weekend!

17/11/2023

We got grease back in stock!
https://www.kineticbikebearings.com/bearing-grease-rock-n-roll-super-web.html

17/10/2023

A question for our regular Bike Trade customers more specifically.

Royal Mail are clearly not what they used to be. A basic letter in the post service used to be reliable, and we have for many years offered the RM24 service as a free postage option. The problem is, this is frequently taking up to 5 working days, and we are inundated daily of questions of 'where's my order, will you chase it up please'. The answer is a non-tracked letter/large letter in post can't be tracked/chased up. We have put warning messages up on the web site about this, but it's still clearly an on-going problem.

We know that the parcels sent by Royal Mail's 'tracked' service receives a lot higher priority as their performance is measured against this. The tracked service is currently £3 per package/order on our web site. If we revert all our basic post to the tracked service we can get the cost down, but it wouldn't be free, and the free option would cease.

We thinking about trialing a new set of postage options to improve delivery

CURRENT:
- RM24 - Free (orders can take 5 working days)
- RM24 Tracked - £3
- Guaranteed next day - £6.95
- Min order value (Trade order)

PROPOSED CHANGE:
- No free post option
- RM24 Tracked - £1.50
- Guaranteed next day - £6.95
- Removing min order value to help.

How do customers feel about receiving a better service for £1.50 per order and having no min order value versus taking your chances with the basic post and still having a free post option.

Thanks