NotFiftyOne FAQ

KindHuman Bicycles

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Ontario

Toronto direct-to-consumer bike brand founded in 2013 by Gavin Brauer, Ayal Rahat and Adam Abramowicz, selling custom, built-to-order carbon road and gravel bikes assembled to the rider's measurements at its Toronto storefront, alongside sales and service for other brands.

Toronto, ON CA · kindhuman.cc

Founder-owned Toronto bike brand and shop selling its own built-to-order carbon road and gravel bikes assembled at its Toronto storefront. Ownership and staff are Canadian; the carbon frames are not confirmed as domestically made.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Vendor's own about page and a directory both name three Canadian co-founders (Gavin Brauer, Ayal Rahat, Adam Abramowicz) with no mention of outside investors or a parent company. Corporations Canada's federal registry returned zero results for the name, suggesting a provincial (Ontario) registration; Ontario's business registry blocked automated access, so incorporation records could not be checked directly.

Manufacturing

48.0 inferred

CA 35% · other 65%

The vendor confirms final build in Toronto: bikes are built-to-order and custom assembled to the rider's measurements there, and orders ship from a Toronto warehouse. Neither the Kampionne nor the Kensuke product pages, nor the about page, state where the high-modulus carbon frames themselves are fabricated, and a boutique brand at this scale has no plausible domestic carbon-frame factory, so frame production is inferred to be Asian OEM manufacture (Taiwan or China) with final assembly and fit in Toronto. A directory entry claims the bikes are simply "Manufactured In: Toronto, ON", but that reads as a description of the local assembly step rather than of frame origin.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Single-site business: the storefront, workshop, and warehouse are all at 1924 Avenue Road, Toronto, per the vendor's own contact, about, and shipping pages.

  • Terms of service · the vendor's own site “1924 Avenue Road, Toronto, Canada”
  • About KindHuman · the vendor's own site “Based in Toronto, Canada”

Inputs

18.0 inferred

CA 10% · other 70% · US 20%

Neither product page discloses where the carbon fibre or drivetrain components come from. High-modulus carbon frames of this kind are almost always fabricated from material and tooling sourced in Asia, and the wider component ecosystem (Shimano, SRAM, Garmin, Continental and similar brands the shop also stocks) is dominated by Japanese and US suppliers, so the mix is an estimate weighted toward those sources rather than a documented figure.

Where to buy

Found via