had a rep came in the other day teling us that BKS have been taken over by frank thomas. this is a rather intresting move i think. dont know what is happening about the BKS name or what .
Jay you heard much more abot it?
No, but BKS are perhaps making more publicity noise with the sponsorship of James Toseland in MotoGP.
MCN say head honcho bloke at BKS is going to be Frank Thomas technial chief (or some title like that) and still in charge of made to measure side of thingsusing Toseland as a springboard they apparently intend to use the BKS name to move into alphinestars/dainese off the peg market
No way, hate frank thomas, everything i have had for work by frank thomas has fallen apart. I have bks leathers for work, cost the British Army a fortune in cows and i hope it is not true. I will look into it. Booo
Fraid is is true mate, there is an article in the BSN about it as well.
so, do you think quality will start to go downhill as volume increases?
It is true, we had our frank thomas rep in yesterday who confirmed it!
Also frank thomas are not going to hold the Suomy contract anymore - so you might not be able to get them in the uk anymore! (his words were “if we can’t make it work, no one can” )
lol im sure there is someone else that can do it … i must agree that i can see that the quality BKS has / did have … ? will go down hill as quantities increase. just to meet the demand.
BKS/ Frank Thomas - Frank Thomas/ BKS!
It’s blasphemy a sacrilege in the name of quality.
That poor side street factory down in peacful exmouth is in for a shock with Frank Thomas.