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notable
Notability is the property
of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibi ...
bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For
bicycle
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist.
Bic ...
parts, see
List of bicycle part manufacturing companies
This article lists bicycle part manufacturers and brands past and present. For a list of bicycle manufacturers, see list of bicycle manufacturers.
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* Atala (company)
* Avid- owned by SRAM Corporation
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Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g.,
Nishiki), sometimes designing the bike, specifying the equipment, and providing quality control. There are also brands that have, at different times, been manufacturers as well as
re-branders: a company with manufacturing capability may market models made by other (overseas) factories, while simultaneously manufacturing bicycles in-house, for example, high-end models.
Only brands or manufacturers that are notable as a bicycle brand should be included. If no page exists for the company or brand, then the page to be linked to should be created first or a reference provided as to its notability or the entry will probably be removed.
International manufacturers
Bicycle manufacturers are in many cases members of "Groups", i.e. they have several product names - so-called "brands". Examples include the following:
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Cycleurope
Grimaldi Industri AB of Stockholm, Sweden, is a holding company that owns:
* Cycleurope – A group of companies that manufacture bicycles and related items with the brands: Bianchi, Crescent, DBS, Everton, Gitane, Kildemoes, Monark, Peugeo ...
AB based in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
(Sweden),
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Derby Cycle
Derby Cycle AG, based in Cloppenburg, Germany, is one of the three largest manufacturers of bicycles in Europe. During the 2010/11 fiscal year Derby employed 756 people. Derby Cycle has a 14% market share in Germany. The Derby Cycle AG is listed i ...
Corporation in Cloppenburg (Germany), and
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Dorel Industries
Dorel Industries Inc. is a Canadian company, based in Montreal, Quebec, which designs and manufactures for three areas: juvenile products, bicycles and home furnishings. It was formed in 1987 as a result of a merger between Dorel Co. Ltd., foun ...
in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
(Canada).
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3T Cycling
3T Cycling is an Italian cycle sport company. It was founded in 1961.
3T switched production to carbon-fiber composite materials and in 2008 returned to pro cycling after several years' absence. For the 2008 season it sponsored the CSC team, whi ...
- Italy
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A-bike
The A-bike is a folding bicycle released by Sir Clive Sinclair in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2006. It was designed by Hong Kong design agency Daka, in collaboration with Sinclair Research, over a 5-year period. It was announced to the public ...
- UK
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Abici - Italy
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Adler - Germany (defunct)
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AIST - Belarus
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ALAN
Alan may refer to:
People
*Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname
* Alan (given name), an English given name
**List of people with given name Alan
''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.''
*A ...
- Italy
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Al Carter
Albert Houston Carter Jr. (born May 20, 1952) is a former reporter and sports columnist for the ''Houston Chronicle'', ''The Dallas Morning News'' and other major daily newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma. His writing career spanned three decades. H ...
- UK (defunct)
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Alcyon
The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1903 and 1954.
Origins
Alcyon originated from about 1890 when Edmond Gentil started the manufacture of bicycles in Neuilly, Seine. In 1902, this was complemented b ...
- France (defunct)
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Alldays & Onions
Alldays & Onions was an English engineering businessAlldays & Onions. ''The Times'', Friday, Jan. 14, 1916 Issue: 41063 and an early automobile manufacturer based at Great Western Works and Matchless Works, Small Heath, Birmingham. It manufact ...
- UK (defunct)
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American Bicycle Company
American Bicycle Company (1899-1903) was an American bicycle company (Trust) led by Albert Augustus Pope. The company was formed to consolidate the manufacturers of bicycles and bicycle parts. In the 1890s the advancements in bicycle design led ...
- USA (defunct)
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American Bicycle Group
American Bicycle Group (ABG) is a manufacturer of bicycles based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
The company operates under a consumer-direct business model: selling their made-to-order bikes online
and shipping them direct to the con ...
- USA, owns
Litespeed
Litespeed is a U.S. bicycle manufacturer founded in 1986 in Ooltewah, Tennessee by David Lynskey. Litespeed makes titanium and carbon fiber frame road racing bicycles and mountain bikes. Titanium bicycle frames are famed for their ride qualit ...
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Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...
, and Obed Bikes
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American Eagle
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- USA (defunct, original name of
Nishiki)
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American Machine and Foundry
American Machine and Foundry (known after 1970 as AMF, Inc.) was one of the United States' largest recreational equipment companies, with diversified products as disparate as garden equipment, atomic reactors, and yachts.
The company was founde ...
- USA (widely known as AMF) (defunct), formerly owned
Roadmaster.
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American Star Bicycle
The American Star Bicycle was invented in 1880 by G. W. Pressey and manufactured by the H. B. Smith Machine Company in Smithville, Burlington County, New Jersey. It was characterized by a small wheel in front to avoid the problem of tipping forwa ...
- USA (defunct) manufactured by the H. B. Smith Machine Company
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Aprilia
Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded immediately after World War II in Noale, Italy, by Alberto Beggio. The company started as a manufacturer of bicycles and moved on to manufacture scooters and small-capacity motorcycles. ...
- Italy (Started as a bicycle manufacturing unit at Noale, Italy but now manufactures Scooters and Motorcycles)
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Argon 18
Argon 18 is a Canadian cycle manufacturer founded in 1989 in Montreal, Quebec. The name is derived from the element Argon, which is number 18 on the periodic table of elements. Argon 18 bikes are distributed in more than 70 countries. Argon 18 a ...
- Canada
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Ariel
Ariel may refer to:
Film and television
*Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award
* ''Ariel'' (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki
* ''ARIEL Visual'' and ''ARIEL Deluxe'', 1989 and 1991 anime video series based on the novel series ...
- England (defunct)
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Atala - Italy
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Author
An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states:
"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
- Czech Republic
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Avanti - New Zealand
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Baltik vairas - Lithuania
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Bacchetta
Angelo Bacchetta (1841–1920) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He studied at the Brera Academy, where he made friends with Filippo Carcano, under the tutelage of Francesco Hayez. After leaving the Academy prematurely, he moved to Florence (1 ...
- USA
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Barnes Cycle Company - USA (defunct)
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Batavus
Batavus BV is a Dutch bicycle manufacturer, owned by the Accell Group European Cycle conglomerate. Batavus Intercycle Corporation was the leading manufacturer of bicycles and mopeds in the Netherlands during the 1970s. During its most productiv ...
- Netherlands
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Battaglin - Italy
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Berlin & Racycle Manufacturing Company - Canada (defunct)
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BH - Spain
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Bianchi Bianchi may refer to:
Places
*Bianchi, Calabria, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cosenza, Italy
Manufacturing
*Bianchi Bicycles (F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A.), an Italian manufacturer of bicycles, and former manufacturer of motorcycles and a ...
- Italy
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Bickerton - UK (folding bikes)
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Bike Friday
Bike Friday is a manufacturer of folding, small-wheeled bicycles that is headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The company was founded in 1992 by brothers Alan Scholz and Hanz Scholz. By 2018, it employed 22 people and manufactured fra ...
- USA (Green Gear Cycling Co.) (folding bikes)
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Bilenky - USA
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Biomega - Denmark
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Birdy - Germany (folding bikes)
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BMC - Switzerland
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Boardman Bikes - UK
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Bohemian Bicycles - USA
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Bontrager
Keith Bontrager (; born December 18, 1954) is a motorcycle racer who became a pioneer in the development of the modern mountain bike. Between 1980 and 1995, he was president of his own Bontrager Company, which continues to develop components for ...
- USA (bought by
Trek and converted into a component brand)
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Bootie - UK
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Bottecchia
Bottecchia Cicli S.r.l. is a bicycle manufacturing company headquartered in Cavarzere, Italy. They offer about 70 models that include road, mountain, trekking, city, BMX, folding, cyclo-cross, and electric. Some high-end frames are produced ...
- Italy
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Bradbury - UK (defunct)
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Brasil & Movimento - Brazil (Branded as Sundown)
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Brennabor
Brennabor-Werke AG (previously Brennabor-Werke Gebr. Reichstein) was a German manufacturer of infant buggies, bicycles, motorcycles and, for two decades, of powered motor vehicles. It was based in Brandenburg an der Havel and operated between 1 ...
- Germany (defunct)
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Bridgestone
is a Japanese multinational tire manufacturer founded in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi (1889–1976) in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of , meaning 'stone bridge' in Japan ...
- Japan
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British Eagle
British Eagle International Airlines was a major British independentindependent from government-owned corporations airline that operated from 1948 until it went into liquidation in 1968. It operated scheduled and charter services on a domestic ...
- UK
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Brodie Bicycles - Canada
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Brompton Bicycle
Brompton Bicycle is a British manufacturer of folding bicycles based in Greenford, London.
The Brompton folding bicycle and accessories are the company's core product, noted for its self-supporting compact size when stored. All available mod ...
- UK (folding bikes)
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Brunswick - USA, formerly owned
Roadmaster
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BSA - UK, no longer builds bicycles,
TI of India builds BSA branded bikes.
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B’Twin
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Burley Design
Burley Design (previously Burley Design Cooperative) LLC is a company in Eugene, Oregon, United States that has produced outdoor family products since 1978. Its blue and yellow children's bicycle trailers were among the first on sale, in the earl ...
- USA (no longer make bicycles)
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Calcott Brothers
Calcott was a small English motor vehicle manufacturer based in Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not ...
- UK (defunct)
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Calfee Design
Calfee Design, headquartered in La Selva Beach, California, is a designer and manufacturer of carbon fiber bicycle frames. Directed by Craig Calfee, the firm employs about 20 people building carbon and bamboo bicycle frames as well as repairing ca ...
- USA
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Caloi - Brazil
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Campion Cycle Company
The Campion Cycle Company was a British bicycle, cyclecar and motor cycle maker, active from 1893 to 1926 and based in Nottingham, England. In 1927 it was purchased by Currys.
Motor cycles
Campion motorcycles used a variety of proprietary engin ...
- UK
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Cannondale
The Cannondale Bicycle Corporation is an American division of Dutch conglomerate Pon Holdings that supplies bicycles. Its headquarters are in Wilton, Connecticut with engineering offices in Freiburg, Germany. Frames are manufactured in Taiwan. ...
- an American division of Canadian conglomerate Dorel Industries
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Canyon bicycles
Canyon Bicycles GmbH (abbr.: Canyon) is a German manufacturer of road bikes, mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, triathlon bikes and e-bikes based in Koblenz, Germany.
History
In 1985 Roman Arnold and his brother Franc Arnold (who is no longer i ...
- Germany
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Catrike
Catrike is a brand of lightweight tadpole-design recumbent tricycles manufactured by Big Cat HPV, LLC, which is based in Orlando, Florida, United States. The company was founded in 1999 by Paulo Camasmie. Catrike riders have an annual factory-s ...
- USA (Recumbent trikes)
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CCM - Canada
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Centurion
A centurion (; la, centurio , . la, centuriones, label=none; grc-gre, κεντυρίων, kentyríōn, or ) was a position in the Roman army during classical antiquity, nominally the commander of a century (), a military unit of around 80 ...
- Japan
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Cervélo
Cervélo Cycles is a Canadian manufacturer of racing and track bicycles. Cervélo uses CAD, computational fluid dynamics, and wind tunnel testing at a variety of facilities including the San Diego Air and Space Technology Center, in California, ...
- Canada
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Chater-Lea
Chater-Lea was a British bicycle, car and motorcycle maker with a purpose-built five-storey factory in Banner Street, EC1, in the City of London (now converted into flats) and, from 1928, premises at Letchworth, Hertfordshire. It was founded by ...
- UK
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Chicago Bicycle Company
The Chicago Bicycle Company was a short-lived United States, American bicycle company which operated from 1994 to 1998. It was headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, with its main production facilities in Chicago.
History
The original Chicago Bic ...
- USA (defunct)
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Cilo
Cilo was a Swiss manufacturer of bicycles that filed for bankruptcy in 2002. The bicycles were produced on the shores of Lake Geneva in Romanel-sur-Lausanne in the Vaud canton.
''Cilo'' is an acronym for Charles Jean Lausanne-Oron. The abbrev ...
- Switzerland
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Cinelli
Cinelli () is an Italian bicycle manufacturing company based in Milan, producing mostly road bicycles and components; production is estimated to consist of 80 per cent components and 20 per cent bicycles.
History
Cinelli was founded in 194 ...
- Italy
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Citizen Bike - USA (folding bikes)
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Clark-Kent - USA (defunct)
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Claud Butler
Claud Butler (14 July 1903 – 2 November 1978) was a London-based bicycle dealer and frame-builder, who from 1928 created a chain of bicycle-retail shops in London and the Midlands.The Bicycle, UK, 23 July 1952, p12 His company was one of the ...
- UK
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Clément - France (defunct)
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Co-Motion Cycles - USA
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Coker - USA
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Colnago
Colnago Ernesto & C. S.r.l. or Colnago is a manufacturer of high quality road-racing bicycles founded by Ernesto Colnago near Milano in Cambiago, Italy. It remained a family-controlled firm until May 4, 2020, when it was announced that the UAE-b ...
- Italy
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Columbia Bicycles
Columbia may refer to:
* Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America
Places North America Natural features
* Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...
- USA
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Corima Corima is a French company that designs and produces carbon-composite wheels and frames for road and track cycling, cyclo-cross racing, triathlon
A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over v ...
- France
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Cortina Cycles
Cortina Cycles is a bicycle frame manufacturer in Santa Barbara, California. It has made frames for Italian companies such as ''Bennotto'' and ''Gios''.
Background
Raul Cortina, his brother and uncle started Cortina Cycles in Mexico in 1955, in ...
- USA
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Coventry-Eagle
Coventry-Eagle was a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer. Established as a Victorian bicycle maker, the company began under the name of Hotchkiss, Mayo & Meek. The company name was changed to Coventry Eagle in 1897 when John Meek left ...
- UK (defunct - see
Falcon Cycles
Falcon Cycles is a British bicycle manufacturer which was based in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, owned by Tandem Group.
History
In the 1880s, Hotchkiss, Mayo & Meek Ltd was established in Coventry as a manufacturer of bicycles. In 1897, the c ...
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Cruzbike
Cruzbike ( ) is a brand of recumbent bicycles based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. The company was founded in 2005 and all models are now designed in the United States and manufactured in Taiwan. Cruzbike started life in Australia ...
- USA, recumbent
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Cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. Viewed from a corner it is a hexagon and its net is usually depicted as a cross.
The cube is the only r ...
- Germany
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Currys
Currys (branded as Currys PC World between 2010 and 2021) is an electrical retailer and aftercare service provider operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, specialising in white goods, consumer electronics, computers and mobile phones.
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- UK, no longer makes bicycles
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Cycle Force Group - USA
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Cycles Devinci
Cycles Devinci is a Canadian bicycle manufacturer established in Chicoutimi, Quebec in 1987. In addition to a full line of road, mountain and hybrid bicycles, it also manufactures the BIXI-brand of bicycle used in bicycle sharing schemes in citie ...
- Canada
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Cycleuropa Group - Sweden, manufactures such brands as:
Bianchi Bianchi may refer to:
Places
*Bianchi, Calabria, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cosenza, Italy
Manufacturing
*Bianchi Bicycles (F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A.), an Italian manufacturer of bicycles, and former manufacturer of motorcycles and a ...
, Crescent,
DBS, Everton,
Gitane
Gitane is a French manufacturer of bicycles based in Machecoul, France; the name "Gitane" means gypsy woman. The brand was synonymous with French bicycle racing from the 1960s through the mid-1980s, sponsoring riders such as Jacques Anquetil (1963 ...
, Kildemoes,
Legnano
Legnano (; or ''Lignàn'') is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the north-westernmost part of the Metropolitan City of Milan, Province of Milan, about from central Milan. With 60,259, it is the thirteenth-most populous township in Lombardy. Le ...
, Micmo,
Monark
Monark, also known as Cykelfabriken Monark AB and Monark AB, is a Swedish bicycle, moped and motorcycle manufacturer, established in Varberg, Sweden, in 1908 by the industrialist Birger Svensson. As of 2016, Monark is valued at 11.5 billion kr.
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Puch
Puch () is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1899 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles. It was a subsidiary of the large Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglo ...
, Spectra, and Cyclepro.
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Cyfac
Cyfac International is a manufacturer of bicycles in La Fuye, in the Loire Valley of France. The name is an acronym that translates from French to "Handmade Bicycle Frames". "Cy" represents cycle (bicycle), "f" for fabriqué (made), "a" for " ...
- France
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Dahon
Dahon is the world's largest manufacturer of folding bicycles with a two-thirds marketshare in 2006. The company was founded in 1982 by David T. Hon, a former laser physicist, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with assembly facto ...
- USA / China
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Dawes Cycles
Dawes Cycles is a bicycle manufacturer based in Castle Bromwich, England. Dawes produces a range of bikes including road, mountain bikes and tandems, but is best known for touring bikes, specifically the Galaxy and the Super Galaxy model lines ...
- UK
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Defiance Cycle Company
The Defiance Cycle Company was formed in 1880 to produce bicycles in Wales. It was founded by two brothers of the Williams family, Arthur and William Williams who established the factory at the top of the Amman Valley.
They started making ordinar ...
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Demorest - USA (restructured as
Lycoming Foundry and Machine Company and discontinued bicycle manufacturing)
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Den Beste Sykkel
Den Beste Sykkel (lit. ''The Best Bike''), better known as DBS, is a Norwegian bicycle brand, manufactured by Jonas Øglænd AS in Sandnes, Norway.
History
The company was founded at Sandnes by Jonas Øglænd (1847–1931) in 1892 and operated ...
Better known as DBS - Norway
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Derby Cycle
Derby Cycle AG, based in Cloppenburg, Germany, is one of the three largest manufacturers of bicycles in Europe. During the 2010/11 fiscal year Derby employed 756 people. Derby Cycle has a 14% market share in Germany. The Derby Cycle AG is listed i ...
- Germany, owns
Kalkhoff
Kalkhoff is a German bicycle manufacturer based in Cloppenburg; it was founded in 1919 by Heinrich Kalkhoff (* 30. November 1903; † 25. September 1972) as a family business.
Founded as a first small workshop in Kalkhoff's parents' house, the c ...
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Focus
Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to:
Arts
* Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film
*''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore
* ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...
,
Nishiki,
Rixe
Rixe was a German bicycle, moped, and small motorcycle factory in Brake, Bielefeld.
The company was founded in 1922. Since the 1950s, Rixe has mostly used the Fichtel & Sachs engines with displacements of and , which were known for their durab ...
,
Raleigh
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeas ...
and
Univega Univega is a bicycle brand created during the bike boom of the 1970s by Ben Lawee (1926–2002), who founded Lawee Inc. to design, specify, and import bicycles initially manufactured in Italy by Italvega, and subsequently in Japan by Miyata.
Prio ...
*
De Rosa - Italy
*
Cycles Devinci
Cycles Devinci is a Canadian bicycle manufacturer established in Chicoutimi, Quebec in 1987. In addition to a full line of road, mountain and hybrid bicycles, it also manufactures the BIXI-brand of bicycle used in bicycle sharing schemes in citie ...
- Canada (not to be confused with daVinci Designs of USA, who make tandems.)
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Di Blasi Industriale
Di Blasi Industriale is an Italian manufacturer of folding bicycles, tricycles, mopeds and scooter based in Vizzini, Sicily. The company's products are suitable for being transported by car, boat, or airplane, and are designed and manufactured ...
- Italy
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Diamant
The Diamant rocket (French for "diamond") was the first exclusively French expendable launch system and at the same time the first satellite launcher not built by either the United States or USSR. As such, it has been referred to as being a key ...
- Norway. Unrelated brand of same name from Germany, owned by
Trek
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Diamondback Bicycles
Diamondback Bicycles is a major bicycle brand that is based in Kent, Washington. Diamondbacks are sold in many countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Most Diamondbacks are considered to be mid-type bicycl ...
- USA
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Dolan Bikes
Dolan Bikes is a British bicycle manufacturer founded by Terry Dolan. They mainly produce racing bicycles that are used by teams such as An Post–Sean Kelly. Dolan bikes also owns the brands Alpina, Cougar and ADV.
Terry Dolan started working ...
- UK
*
Dorel Industries
Dorel Industries Inc. is a Canadian company, based in Montreal, Quebec, which designs and manufactures for three areas: juvenile products, bicycles and home furnishings. It was formed in 1987 as a result of a merger between Dorel Co. Ltd., foun ...
- Canada, owns
Pacific Cycle
Pacific Cycle, Inc., is an American division of Dutch conglomerate Pon Holdings that imports and distributes bicycles. It was founded in 1977 by Chris Hornung. The company pioneered the sourcing of bicycles from the Far East for distribution in ...
and markets under brand names including
Cannondale
The Cannondale Bicycle Corporation is an American division of Dutch conglomerate Pon Holdings that supplies bicycles. Its headquarters are in Wilton, Connecticut with engineering offices in Freiburg, Germany. Frames are manufactured in Taiwan. ...
,
Iron Horse
''Iron horse'' is an iconic literary term (considered by the early 21st century to be transitioning into an archaic reference) for a steam locomotive, originating in the early 1800s, when horses still powered most machinery. The term was common ...
,
Schwinn
The Schwinn Bicycle Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets bicycles under the eponymous brand name.
The company was originally founded by Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1948) in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manuf ...
,
Mongoose
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family is currently split into two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae. The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to so ...
,
Roadmaster, and
GT.
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Dunelt - UK (defunct)
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Dynacraft - USA, owns
Magna and
Next
Next may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Next'' (1990 film), an animated short about William Shakespeare
* ''Next'' (2007 film), a sci-fi film starring Nicolas Cage
* '' Next: A Primer on Urban Painting'', a 2005 documentary film
Lit ...
E
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Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company
Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company based in Torrington, Connecticut built bicycles from 1888-1900.
At one time, Eagle had a capacity to manufacture 20,000 to 30,000 bicycles annually. The company promoted some of their unique features such as alu ...
- USA (defunct)
*
Eddy Merckx Cycles
S.A. Cycles Eddy Merckx Rijwielen N.V., better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian brand of high end road bikes, founded by former professional road cyclist Eddy Merckx in 1980.Friebe, Daniel (2012). ''Eddy Merckx, The Cannibal''. . Ebury Press, U ...
- Belgium
*
Electra Bicycle Company - USA (Owned by Trek Bicycle Company)
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Ellis Briggs
Ellis Briggs is a British bicycle manufacturer and shop, based in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England. It is the oldest bicycle shop in the Bradford area still in business today. Ellis Briggs have produced lightweight bicycles since 1936 and contin ...
- UK
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Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles - USA
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Emilio Bozzi - Italy (acquired by
Bianchi Bianchi may refer to:
Places
*Bianchi, Calabria, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cosenza, Italy
Manufacturing
*Bianchi Bicycles (F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A.), an Italian manufacturer of bicycles, and former manufacturer of motorcycles and a ...
)
*
Ērenpreiss Bicycles
Ērenpreiss Bicycles is a manufacturer of city bicycles based in Riga, Latvia.
Ērenpreiss Bicycles as a company was founded (and is run) by Toms Ērenpreiss, Gustavs Ērenpreis' great-grandnephew. - Latvia
*
Excelsior
Excelsior, a Latin comparative word often translated as "ever upward" or "even higher", may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Literature and poetry
* "Excelsior" (Longfellow), an 1841 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* ''Excelsior'' (Macedo ...
- UK (defunct)
F
*
Falcon Cycles
Falcon Cycles is a British bicycle manufacturer which was based in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, owned by Tandem Group.
History
In the 1880s, Hotchkiss, Mayo & Meek Ltd was established in Coventry as a manufacturer of bicycles. In 1897, the c ...
- UK
*
Fat City Cycles
Fat City Cycles was an American bicycle manufacturing company. Fat City was started by Chris Chance in 1982. Fat City Cycles was one of the early builders of mountain bikes on the East Coast of the United States. When Fat City moved from Somerv ...
- USA (defunct)
*
Felt
Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood ...
- USA
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Flying Pigeon
Flying Pigeon () is a Chinese publicly owned bicycle company based in Tianjin.
Since 1950, more than 500 million Flying Pigeon PA-02 bicycles have been made, and as of 2007, more than any other model of vehicle. The next closest vehicle mode ...
- China
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Flying Scot - Scotland
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Focus Bikes
Focus Bikes is a bicycle manufacturer that has its administration in Stuttgart, Germany and production facilities based in Cloppenburg, Germany and builds sport bicycles such as e-bikes, racing bicycles and mountain bicycles.
History
The compan ...
- Germany. Part of
Derby Cycle
Derby Cycle AG, based in Cloppenburg, Germany, is one of the three largest manufacturers of bicycles in Europe. During the 2010/11 fiscal year Derby employed 756 people. Derby Cycle has a 14% market share in Germany. The Derby Cycle AG is listed i ...
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Cycles Follis - France (defunct)
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Folmer & Schwing - USA (defunct)
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Fondriest - Italy
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Fram
Fram may refer to:
Ships
* ''Fram'' (ship), an arctic exploration vessel from Norway
* MS ''Fram'', expedition cruise ship owned by Hurtigruten Group
Places and geography
* Fram, Paraguay, a town in Itapúa, Paraguay
* Fram Formation, a se ...
- Sweden (defunct)
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Freddie Grubb
Frederick Henry Grubb (27 May 1887 – 6 March 1949) was a British road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He won silver medals in the individual road race and the team road race. In 1914, after he retired from racing, he ...
- UK
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Fuji Bikes
Fuji Bikes is a brand of bicycles and cycling equipment currently owned by Advanced Sports International. The company is a descendant of , a bicycle manufacturer originally established in Japan in 1899. The company took its name and logo from M ...
- USA (owned by
Advanced Sports International
Advanced Sports International (ASI) is an American bicycle company whose flagship brand is Fuji Bikes. It also owns smaller brands including triathlon-focused Kestrel USA, component maker Oval Concepts, Breezer bikes, Tuesday Cycles and BMX maker ...
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Fyxation
Fyxation is a bicycle company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded by Nick and Ben Ginster in 2009. The initial products were pedals, handlebars, saddles, and tires. This has been expanded to include frames, complete bicycles, and leather beer a ...
- USA
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Gary Fisher
Gary Christopher Fisher (born November 5, 1950) is considered one of the inventors of the modern mountain bike.
Fisher started competing in road and track races at age 12. He was suspended in 1968 because race organizers cited a rule that his ...
- USA (owned by TREK)
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Gazelle
A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus ''Gazella'' . This article also deals with the seven species included in two further genera, ''Eudorcas'' and ''Nanger'', which were formerly considered subgenera of ''Gazella''. A third f ...
- Netherlands
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Gendron Bicycles Gendron, Inc. (originally Gendron Iron Wheel Company) is an American manufacturer of wheelchairs, hospital beds, stretchers, and other medical equipment based in Bryan, Ohio.[Genesis
Genesis may refer to:
Bible
* Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind
* Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...]
- UK
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Gepida - Hungary
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Ghost
A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...
- Germany ((acquired by Accell, made in Taiwan))
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Giant Manufacturing
Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (commonly known as Giant) is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer, recognized as the world's largest bicycle designer and manufacturer. Giant has manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, the Netherlands, China, and Hungary.
H ...
- Taiwan Manufacturers its own bikes and many other brands
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Gimson - Spain (defunct)
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Gitane
Gitane is a French manufacturer of bicycles based in Machecoul, France; the name "Gitane" means gypsy woman. The brand was synonymous with French bicycle racing from the 1960s through the mid-1980s, sponsoring riders such as Jacques Anquetil (1963 ...
- France
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Gladiator Cycle Company
The Gladiator Cycle Company, Clément-Gladiator (from 1896), was a French manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles and cars based in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Seine.
Throughout its productive life from 1891 until its demise in 1920 the company was var ...
- France (defunct)
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Gnome et Rhône
Gnome et Rhône was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp (81 kW) rotary designs, while another 75,000 were produced by various licen ...
- France (defunct)
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Gocycle - UK
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Gormully & Jeffery
Gormully & Jeffery (G&J) was an American bicycle company, founded in Chicago in 1879 by Thomas B. Jeffery and R. Phillip Gormully.
History
Gormully & Jefferey started with the production of children's bicycles in 1879. They were the second bi ...
- USA (defunct)
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Gräf & Stift
Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN. It was founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm S ...
- Austria (defunct)
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GT Bicycles
GT Bicycles is an American company that designs and manufactures BMX, mountain, and road bicycles. GT is a division of the Dutch conglomerate Pon Holdings, which also markets Cannondale, Schwinn, Mongoose, IronHorse, DYNO, and RoadMaster bicyc ...
- American brand now owned by Dorel Industries of Canada
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Guerciotti - Italy
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Gustavs Ērenpreis Bicycle Factory - Latvia (defunct)
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Gunnar
Gunnar is a male first name of Nordic origin (''Gunnarr'' in Old Norse). The name Gunnar means fighter, soldier, and attacker, but mostly is referred to by the Viking saying which means Brave and Bold warrior (''gunnr'' "war" and ''arr'' "warrior ...
- USA
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Halfords
Halfords Group PLC is the UK's largest retailer of motoring and cycling products and services. Through Halfords Autocentre, they provide vehicle servicing, MOT, maintenance and repairs in the United Kingdom.
Halfords Group is listed on the Lond ...
- U.K.
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Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depressi ...
- USA, 1917–1923.
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Haro Bikes
Haro Bikes Corporation is an American BMX and Mountain bicycle manufacturer which was founded in 1978 by Bob Haro. The Haro bikes were considered Freestyle BMX bikes.
History
Haro Designs
The company was founded in 1978 by Bob Haro, who ...
- USA, owns the
Masi brand.
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Harry Quinn - UK (defunct)
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Hase bikes
The Hase is a long river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Ems, but part of its flow goes to the Else, that is part of the Weser basin. Its source is in the Teutoburg Forest, south-east of Osnabrück, on the north slope ...
- Germany
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Heinkel
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke () was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight, with ...
- Germany (defunct)
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Helkama
Helkama Oy is a Finnish company and umbrella brand, operating several subsidiaries that focus on bicycles (Helkama Velox), cables for ships and communications (Helkama Bica), household appliances and refrigerators (Helkama Forste), accessories a ...
- Finland
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Henley Bicycle Works - USA (defunct)
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Hercules
Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
The Romans adapted the Gr ...
- UK (defunct)
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Hercules
Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
The Romans adapted the Gr ...
- Germany
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Hero Cycles Ltd
Hero Cycles Limited, based in Ludhiana, Punjab, is an Indian company that manufactures bicycles and bicycle related products. Pankaj M Munjal is the chairman and managing director of Hero Cycles.
History
Hero Cycles was established in 1956 ...
- India - owning brands such as Hero, Hawk, Firefox and Roma
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René Herse - France
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Hetchins
Hetchin's, originally Hetchin's Lightweight Cycle Specialists, simplified to Hetchin's Lightweights since 1993, is a brand of bicycle frame. It takes its name from the founder of the firm, Hyman Hetchin.
History
Hyman Hetchin was a Russian Jew w ...
- UK
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Hillman
Hillman was a British automobile marque created by the Hillman-Coatalen Company, founded in 1907, renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910. The company was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England. Before 1907 the company had b ...
- UK (defunct)
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Hoffman BMX Bikes
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Hoffmann
Hoffmann is a German surname.
People A
* Albert Hoffmann (1846–1924), German horticulturist
* Alexander Hoffmann (born 1975), German politician
* Arthur Hoffmann (politician) (1857–1927), Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Cou ...
- Germany (defunct)
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Holdsworth
Holdsworth was a bicycle manufacturer in London, England. It was created by William Frank Holdsworth, known as "Sandy", and the brand is now owned by Planet X Limited based in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
History
Sandy Holdsworth took over Ashlo ...
- UK
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Huffy
The Huffy Corporation is a supplier of bicycles with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
Early history
It has its roots in 1887 when George P. Huffman purchased the Davis Sewing Machine Company and in 1890 moved its sewing machine f ...
- USA
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Humber
The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal rivers Ouse and Trent. From there to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between th ...
- UK part of
Raleigh
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeas ...
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Hurtu
Hurtu was a pioneering French car made by Diligeon et Cie based in Albert, Somme from 1896 to 1930. As well as cars, the company also made sewing machines and bicycles.
The company was founded in 1880 as Hurtu, Hautin et Diligeon as a maker of s ...
- France (defunct)
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Husqvarna - Sweden (no longer a bicycle manufacturer)
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Hutch BMX
Hutch BMX was founded in 1979 by bicycle store owner Richard Hutchins in Pasadena, Maryland. Hutch BMX grew from a bicycle shop to a mail order business, and then to a BMX bicycle manufacturer. The company introduced their first model (Hutch Pro ...
BMX Bicycle manufacturer USA
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Ibis
The ibises () (collective plural ibis; classical plurals ibides and ibes) are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains. "Ibis" derives from the Latin and Ancient Greek word f ...
- USA
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Ideal Bikes - Greece
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Indian
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
- USA (bought by Polaris)
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IFA
IFA or Ifa may refer to:
Organisations
Economics
* Independent financial adviser, a type of financial services professional in the UK
* Index Fund Advisors
* Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, representing actuaries in the UK
* Institute of Ac ...
- East Germany (defunct)
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Independent Fabrication - USA
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Inspired Cycle Engineering (ICE) - UK (recumbent trikes)
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Iride - Italy
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Iron Horse Bicycles
Iron Horse Bicycles was a manufacturer of bicycles, in Islandia, New York, United States from 1987 to 2009. Its logo was a prancing horse on a mustard-color crest similar to the Ferrari logo. Iron Horse sold racing bikes and mountain bikes, ...
- American brand now owned by Dorel Industries of Canada
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Islabikes
Islabikes ( ) is a manufacturer of bicycles based near Ludlow in Shropshire, England. Originally known for children's bikes, since 2019 the company has also produced bicycles aimed at the over 65s. It was founded in 2006 by competitive cyclis ...
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Italvega
Italvega is a brand of road bicycles designed, specified, imported and marketed by the California-based bicycle distributor, Lawee, Inc., founded by Ben Lawee, who also created the Univega and Bertoni bicycle brands.
Italvega bikes were designe ...
- USA (defunct) Precursor to Univega
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Itera
ARETI International Group of Companies is a private energy company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. ARETI was created by Igor Makarov in 2015 as a result of rebranding of Itera International Group of Companies, which was started in 1992. T ...
- Sweden (defunct)
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Ivel Cycle Works - UK (defunct)
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Iver Johnson
Iver Johnson was an American firearms, bicycle, and motorcycle manufacturer from 1871 to 1993. The company shared the same name as its founder, Norwegian-born Iver Johnson (1841–1895).
The name was resold, and Iver Johnson Arms opened in ...
- USA (defunct)
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Iverson - USA (defunct)
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Jan Janssen
Johannes Adrianus "Jan" Janssen (; born 19 May 1940) is a Dutch former professional cyclist (1962–1972). He was world champion and winner of the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, the first Dutch rider to win either. He rode the Tour de ...
- The Netherlands
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JMC Bicycles JMC, or Jim Melton Cyclery was a bicycle company in the 1970s and 1980s. It started as a bicycle shop in 1969. It began manufacturing bicycle components in 1974, mostly to make a bicycle look more like a motocross motorcycle, including fenders an ...
- USA (defunct)
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Jamis Bicycles- USA
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Kalkhoff
Kalkhoff is a German bicycle manufacturer based in Cloppenburg; it was founded in 1919 by Heinrich Kalkhoff (* 30. November 1903; † 25. September 1972) as a family business.
Founded as a first small workshop in Kalkhoff's parents' house, the c ...
- Germany
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Kangaroo
Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...
- UK
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Karbon Kinetics Limited
Gocycle is an electric bicycle manufactured by Karbon Kinetics Limited, a company founded in 2002 by Richard Thorpe, who is an industrial designer that once worked at the racing car company McLaren. The Gocycle has interchangeable quick release ...
- UK
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K2 Sports
K2 Sports, LLC (K2 Sports) is an American winter sports company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. K2 Sports operates the K2 Skis, K2 Snowboarding, K2 Skates, Backcountry Access, Ride Snowboards, Tubbs Snowshoes, Atlas Snow-Shoe Company, LIN ...
- USA
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Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
- USA
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Kestrel USA
Kestrel is an American bicycle brand which specializes in high-end bikes for triathlons and road racing. Kestrel has been owned by Advanced Sports International since 2007. - USA (owned by Advanced Sports International)
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Kettler
Kettler (german: Kettler GmbH) is a German company based in Ense-Parsit, with locations all around the world. The company produces riding toys, leisure gear, patio furniture and exercise equipment.
History
The company was founded in 1949 in ...
- Germany
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KHS - Taiwan A Manufacturer of its own bikes plus many other brands
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Kia
Kia Corporation, commonly known as Kia (, ; formerly known as Kyungsung Precision Industry and Kia Motors Corporation), is a South Korean multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It is South Korea's second lar ...
- ROK, no longer produces bicycles
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Kinesis Industry - Taiwan and USA, Kenesis produces its own bikes as well as brands manufactured by Kinesis include
Diamondback Bicycles
Diamondback Bicycles is a major bicycle brand that is based in Kent, Washington. Diamondbacks are sold in many countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Most Diamondbacks are considered to be mid-type bicycl ...
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Felt Bicycles
Felt Racing is an American bicycle brand based in Irvine, California. Felt produces road, track, cyclocross, electric bicycles, and cruiser bikes. All design is completed in the United States and the majority of production comes from Asia. T ...
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GT Bicycles
GT Bicycles is an American company that designs and manufactures BMX, mountain, and road bicycles. GT is a division of the Dutch conglomerate Pon Holdings, which also markets Cannondale, Schwinn, Mongoose, IronHorse, DYNO, and RoadMaster bicyc ...
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Schwinn
The Schwinn Bicycle Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets bicycles under the eponymous brand name.
The company was originally founded by Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1948) in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manuf ...
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Jamis
Jamis Bicycles is an American distributor of bicycles, designed in the US and built in China and Taiwan. Jamis was acquired in 1990 by its parent company, G. Joannou Cycle Co. It is headed by Carine Joannou, chief executive of G. Joannou Cycles sin ...
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K2,
Raleigh
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeas ...
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Trek, and
Kona
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Klein - USA (Discontinued brand owned by Trek)
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Koga Miyata - The Netherlands
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Kogswell Cycles - USA
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Kona - USA
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Kronan - Sweden
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Kross - Poland
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KTM
KTM AG (Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen, formerly KTM Sportmotorcycle AG) is an Austrian motorcycle, bicycle and sports car manufacturer owned by Pierer Mobility AG and the Indian manufacturer Bajaj Auto. It was formed in 1992 but traces ...
- Austria
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Kuota - Italy
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Kuwahara - Japan (Okinawa)
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Laurin & Klement
Laurin & Klement was a Czech automobile, motorcycle and bicycle manufacturing company founded in 1895 in Mladá Boleslav, Kingdom of Bohemia by automotive pioneers Václav Laurin and Václav Klement. Car production commenced in 1905, and the com ...
- Austria-Hungary/Czech republic
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Lapierre - France
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LeMond
Gregory James LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is an American former professional road racing cyclist, entrepreneur, and anti-doping advocate. A two-time winner of the Road Race World Championship (1983 and 1989) and a three-time winner of the Tou ...
- USA (Discontinued brand owned by Trek)
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Alexander Leutner & Co. — Russia (defunct)
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Lightning Cycle Dynamics - USA (recumbent bicycles)
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Litespeed
Litespeed is a U.S. bicycle manufacturer founded in 1986 in Ooltewah, Tennessee by David Lynskey. Litespeed makes titanium and carbon fiber frame road racing bicycles and mountain bikes. Titanium bicycle frames are famed for their ride qualit ...
- USA
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Look - France
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Louison Bobet
Louis "Louison" Bobet (; 12 March 1925 - 13 March 1983) was a French professional road racing cyclist. He was the first great French rider of the post-war period and the first rider to win the Tour de France in three successive years, from 1953 to ...
- France (defunct)
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Lotus, USA (defunct)
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Magna - USA
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Malvern Star
Malvern Star is a manufacturer of bicycles based in Melbourne, Australia. The company was established in 1902, and went on to become a known brand in Australia.
History
Malvern Star opened in a small shop at 58 Glenferrie Rd, in the Melbourn ...
- Australia
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Marin Bikes
Marin is a bicycle manufacturer in Marin County, California, established in 1986. It specializes in mountain bikes but also has other types. Many of its 68 bicycles are named after locations in and around Marin County.
Bicycle range
Marin ...
- USA
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Masi Bicycles
Masi Bicycles is a manufacturer of road, track, cyclocross and commuter bicycles based in Vista, California, United States.
History
Faliero Masi commenced making bicycle frames at the Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan in the 1950s, after a career ...
- USA
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Matchless
Matchless is one of the oldest marques of British motorcycles, manufactured in Plumstead, London, between 1899 and 1966. A wide range of models were produced under the Matchless name, ranging from small two-strokes to 750 cc Four-stroke cy ...
- UK (defunct)
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Matra
Matra (an acronym for Mécanique Aviation Traction) was a French industrial conglomerate. During its years of operation, it was engaged in a wide range of business activities, primarily focused around automobiles, bicycles, aeronautics and we ...
- France
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Melon Bicycles - USA
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Mercian Cycles
Mercian Cycles is a custom bicycle manufacturer based in Derby, England.Kolin and de la Rosa, 1979, pp. 60-68 The firm was founded by Tom Crowther and Lou Barker in 1946 and named after the ancient kingdom of Mercia. Early frames built by Mercia ...
- UK
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Merida Bikes
Merida Industry Co., Ltd (MIC; ) is a Taiwan-based company with R&D headquarters in Germany that designs, manufactures and markets bicycles globally in over 77 countries. Founded in 1972 by Ike Tseng (1932–2012), the company designs and manufac ...
- Taiwan
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Merlin
Merlin ( cy, Myrddin, kw, Marzhin, br, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a mage, with several other main roles. His usual depiction, based on an amalgamation of historic and le ...
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Merckx - Belgium
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Milwaukee Bicycle Co. - USA
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Minerva
Minerva (; ett, Menrva) is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. Minerva is not a patron of violence such as Mars, but of strategic war. From the second century BC onward, the Roma ...
- Belgium (defunct)
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Miyata
Miyata is a Japanese manufacturer of bicycles, The company has been in operation since 1890. Miyata was also one of the first producers of motorcycles in Japan under the name Asahi. The Asahi AA was the first mass-produced motorcycle in Japa ...
- Japan
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Mochet
Georges Mochet began to produce cycle-cars at his, now-demolished, premises at 68, Rue Roque-de-Fillol at Puteaux in approximately 1946 and by about 1952 had progressed to more modern looking two seater micro-cars and powered two-wheelers. In ...
- France (defunct)
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Monark
Monark, also known as Cykelfabriken Monark AB and Monark AB, is a Swedish bicycle, moped and motorcycle manufacturer, established in Varberg, Sweden, in 1908 by the industrialist Birger Svensson. As of 2016, Monark is valued at 11.5 billion kr.
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- Sweden/Brazil/Peru
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Mondia
Mondia was one of the most successful Swiss bicycle brands.
History
Mondia bicycles were manufactured by Jeker-Häfeli & Cie, which started production in 1933. In 1936, Jeker-Häfeli sponsored a Mondia racing team for the Tour of Switzerlan ...
- Switzerland
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Mongoose
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family is currently split into two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae. The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to so ...
- American brand now owned by Dorel Industries of Canada
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Montague - USA
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Moots Cycles - CO, USA
* Moser Cicli - Italy
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Motobécane
Motobécane was a French manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and other small vehicles, established in 1923. "Motobécane" is a compound of "moto", short for motorcycle; "bécane" is slang for "bike."
Motobécane is a different co ...
- France
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Moulton
Moulton may refer to:
Places in the United Kingdom
;In England
*Moulton, Cheshire
*Moulton, Lincolnshire
**Moulton Windmill
* Moulton St Mary, Norfolk
*Moulton, Northamptonshire
**Moulton College, agricultural college
**Moulton Park, industria ...
- UK
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Mountain Equipment Co-op
Mountain Equipment Co-op (now called 1077 Holdings Co-Operative) is a Canadian co-op that started the MEC outdoor gear retail brand. The MEC brand name, assets and store leases were purchased by the American private investment firm Kingswood C ...
- Canada
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Murray
Murray may refer to:
Businesses
* Murray (bicycle company), an American manufacturer of low-cost bicycles
* Murrays, an Australian bus company
* Murray International Trust, a Scottish investment trust
* D. & W. Murray Limited, an Australian who ...
- USA (defunct)
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Muddy Fox - UK (other brand: Silver Fox)
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Nagasawa - Japan
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National
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, ce ...
- Japan, precursor to
Panasonic
formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Kadoma, Osaka P ...
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Neil Pryde
Neil Pryde Ltd. (Pryde Group) is a Hong Kong based Sports Group engaged in manufacturing, distribution and brand management founded by Neil Pryde who served as chairman until January 1, 2015.
Pryde Group is a privately held company, wholly owned ...
- Hong Kong
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Neobike - Taiwan
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NEXT
Next may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Next'' (1990 film), an animated short about William Shakespeare
* ''Next'' (2007 film), a sci-fi film starring Nicolas Cage
* '' Next: A Primer on Urban Painting'', a 2005 documentary film
Lit ...
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Nishiki - USA and Europe
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Norco - Canada
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Norman Cycles
Norman Cycles was a British bicycle, autocycle, moped, and motorcycle manufacturer in Ashford, Kent, England.
The company and its products are remembered today by the Norman Cycles Club at Willesborough Windmill, in Willesborough, Ashford. The ...
- UK (defunct)
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Novara
Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is ...
- USA
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NSU - Germany
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Nymanbolagen
Nymanbolagen (aka Nymans AB or just Nymans) was a Swedish bicycle, moped, and motorcycle manufacturing company in Uppsala, Sweden.
In 1947 Nymans Verkstäder in Uppsala, Lindblads Verkstäder (Amerikansk Cycleimport) in Stockholm and some minor ...
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Olive Wheel Company - USA (defunct)
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Olmo - Italy
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Opel
Opel Automobile GmbH (), usually shortened to Opel, is a German automobile manufacturer which has been a subsidiary of Stellantis since 16 January 2021. It was owned by the American automaker General Motors from 1929 until 2017 and the PSA Grou ...
- Germany (no longer makes bicycles)
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Orbea
Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer based in Mallabia, Spain. It is part of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and Spain's largest bicycle manufacturer. Orbea manufactures and assembles bikes at their own factory in Mallabia, the other models ...
- Spain
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Órbita - Portugal
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Orient Bikes
Orient Bikes is a Greek manufacturer of bicycles established in Larissa
Larissa (; el, Λάρισα, , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,65 ...
- Greece
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Overman Wheel Company
Overman Wheel Company was an early bicycle manufacturing company in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts from 1882 to 1900. It was known for bicycles of higher quality and lower weight than other bicycles of its time. Despite a nationwide bicycle craze in ...
- USA (defunct)
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Pacific Cycle
Pacific Cycle, Inc., is an American division of Dutch conglomerate Pon Holdings that imports and distributes bicycles. It was founded in 1977 by Chris Hornung. The company pioneered the sourcing of bicycles from the Far East for distribution in ...
- USA, was acquired by
Dorel Industries
Dorel Industries Inc. is a Canadian company, based in Montreal, Quebec, which designs and manufactures for three areas: juvenile products, bicycles and home furnishings. It was formed in 1987 as a result of a merger between Dorel Co. Ltd., foun ...
in 2004. Owns
GT,
Mongoose
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family is currently split into two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae. The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to so ...
,
Murray
Murray may refer to:
Businesses
* Murray (bicycle company), an American manufacturer of low-cost bicycles
* Murrays, an Australian bus company
* Murray International Trust, a Scottish investment trust
* D. & W. Murray Limited, an Australian who ...
,
Roadmaster, and
Schwinn
The Schwinn Bicycle Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets bicycles under the eponymous brand name.
The company was originally founded by Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1948) in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manuf ...
brands
*
Pacific Cycles
Pacific Cycles is a Taiwan, Taiwanese bicycle designing and manufacturing company headquartered in Xinwu District, Taoyuan, Xinwu District, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taoyuan City. The company manufactures its self designed cycles including Folding bicycle ...
- Pacific Cycles is a Taiwan bicycle manufacturing company based in Hsin Wu, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
*
Panasonic
formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Kadoma, Osaka P ...
- Japan, successor to
National
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, ce ...
*
Pashley Cycles
Pashley Cycles is a British bicycle, tricycle and workbike manufacturer based in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The company was started in 1926 and still manufactures bikes in the UK.
Formation and early years
In 1926, Willia ...
- UK
*
Pedersen bicycle - UK
*
Pegas - RO
*
Peugeot
Peugeot (, , ) is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis.
The family business that preceded the current Peugeot companies was founded in 1810, with a steel foundry that soon started making hand tools and kitchen equipment, and the ...
- France
*
Phillips Cycles
Phillips Cycles Ltd. was a British bicycle manufacturer based in Smethwick near Birmingham, England. Its history began early in the 20th century and ended in the 1980s by which time it had become part of Raleigh Industries, itself a part ...
- UK
*
Phoenix
Phoenix most often refers to:
* Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore
* Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States
Phoenix may also refer to:
Mythology
Greek mythological figures
* Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ...
- China
*
Pierce Cycle Company - USA (defunct)
*
Pinarello
Cicli Pinarello S.p.A. is an Italian bicycle manufacturer based in Treviso, Italy. Founded in 1953, it supplies mostly handmade bicycles for the road, track, E-bikes(NYTRO), mountain bikes and cyclo-cross. The company also produces bicycles u ...
- Italy
*
Planet X Bikes - UK, On-One, Titus, Planet X
*
Pocket Bicycles
Pocket Bicycles was the name of a manufacturer of portable bicycles located in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1970s. Design innovations
While resembling many of the small-wheel folding bicycle designs of the time, the bicycle was distinctive in r ...
- USA
*
Pogliaghi - Italy
*
Polygon Bikes
Polygon Bikes is a bicycle's trade name made by PT Insera Sena, an Indonesians, Indonesian bicycle Manufacturing, manufacturer based in Sidoarjo Regency, Sidoarjo, East Java. Polygon operates manufacturing facilities in various places in Indonesia ...
- Indonesia
*
Pope Manufacturing Company
Pope Manufacturing Company was founded by Albert Augustus Pope around 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, US and incorporated in Hartford, Connecticut in 1877. Manufacturing of bicycles began in 1878 in Hartford at the Weed Sewing Machine Company fact ...
- USA (defunct)
*
Premier
Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier.
A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
- UK (defunct)
*
Prophete
Prophete GmbH u. Co. KG is a German manufacturer for bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, and supply parts that traditionally trade under the Prophete brand name.
The company (including the subsidiary company Cycle Union) employ a staff of about 400 peo ...
- Germany
*
Puch
Puch () is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1899 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles. It was a subsidiary of the large Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglo ...
- Austria
Q
*
Quadrant Cycle Company
The Quadrant Cycle Company was a company in Birmingham, England that was established in 1890 as a bicycle manufacturer. They advanced to make motorcycles from 1899 until their demise in 1928. They also made a tricar called Carette in 1899 and a sm ...
- UK (defunct)
*
Quality Bicycle Products
Quality Bicycle Products (QBP) is a large distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry, with revenues of $150 million in 2008. In addition to wholesaling bicycles and components from other manufacturers, QBP owns and m ...
- USA and Taiwan, owns Salsa Cycles and
Surly Bikes
Surly Bikes, or Surly, is a bicycle brand based in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States, that was founded in 1998. It is a division of Quality Bicycle Products, a manufacturer and distributor of bicycles and bicycle parts. Despite sharing a simi ...
.
*
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...
- USA
R
*
R+E Cycles - USA also known as ''Rodriguez Bicycles''
*
Radio Flyer
Radio Flyer is an American toy company best known for their popular red toy wagon. Radio Flyer also produces scooters, tricycles, bicycles, horses, and ride-ons. The company was founded in 1917 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
History
Antoni ...
- USA
*
Rabasa Cycles
Rabasa Cycle is a Spanish bicycles company, headquartered in Mollet del Vallès (Barcelona, Catalonia). The company, which started as a bicycle repair shop in 1922, was founded by Simeó Rabasa i Singla.
History
The first Rabasa bicycle shop open ...
- Spain
*
Raleigh
Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeas ...
- UK. Part of
Derby Cycle
Derby Cycle AG, based in Cloppenburg, Germany, is one of the three largest manufacturers of bicycles in Europe. During the 2010/11 fiscal year Derby employed 756 people. Derby Cycle has a 14% market share in Germany. The Derby Cycle AG is listed i ...
*
Rambler
Rambler or Ramble may refer to:
Places
* Rambler, Wyoming
* Rambler Channel (藍巴勒海峽), separates Tsing Yi Island and the mainland New Territories in Hong Kong
* The Ramble and Lake, Central Park, an area within New York City's Centr ...
- USA (defunct), made by
Gormully & Jeffery
Gormully & Jeffery (G&J) was an American bicycle company, founded in Chicago in 1879 by Thomas B. Jeffery and R. Phillip Gormully.
History
Gormully & Jefferey started with the production of children's bicycles in 1879. They were the second bi ...
*
Rans Designs
Rans Designs, previously called Rans Inc. (styled all in capitals as RANS), is an American aircraft and bicycle manufacturer based in Hays, Kansas, United States. The company name is a portmanteau of the first and last names of the company founder ...
- USA
*
Razor
A razor is a bladed tool primarily used in the removal of body hair through the act of shaving. Kinds of razors include straight razors, safety razors, disposable razors, and electric razors.
While the razor has been in existence since before t ...
- USA
*
Redline bicycles - USA
*
Reid
Reid is a surname of Scottish origin. It means "red".
People with the surname
* Alan Reid (disambiguation)
* Alex Reid (disambiguation), includes Alexander Reid
* Amanda Reid, Australian Paralympic athlete
* Amanda Reid (taxonomist), Australia ...
- Australia
*
Rhoades Car
Rhoades Car, founded in 1991, is located in Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States. The company was founded by David Rhoades, and he served as its president until his death in late 2009 from heart disease at age 60. He was succeeded as presiden ...
- USA (quadracycles)
*
Ridgeback - UK
*
Ridley - Belgium
*
Riese und Müller
Riese & Müller is a bicycle manufacturer in Darmstadt, Germany founded by Markus Riese and Heiko Müller. It designs and makes suspended bicycles. Frames are produced by companies such as Pacific Cycles, Taiwan. All of their bikes are ass ...
- Germany
*
RIH - Netherlands
*
Riley Cycle Company - UK (defunct)
*
Rivendell Bicycle Works
Rivendell Bicycle Works is a producer of lugged steel bicycle frames, located in Walnut Creek, California, United States. Rivendell frames, both custom and stock bicycles are designed in the U.S. by Grant Petersen. Bicycles are manufactured in the ...
- USA
*
Roadmaster - American brand now owned by Dorel Industries of Canada
*
Roberts Cycles
Roberts Cycles is a custom bicycle frame building business, originally located in Selhurst near Croydon, South London, now located in East Sussex, England.
Beginning soon after World War II, Charles (Charlie) Benjamin Roberts was a frame-builder ...
- UK
*
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depic ...
- UK
*
Rocky Mountain Bicycles
Rocky Mountain is a Canadian bicycle manufacturer based in Saint-Georges, Quebec. Its name is a reference to the mountain range that stretches from eastern British Columbia to the southwest United States.
History
Rocky Mountain Bicycles had it ...
- Canada
*
ROSE Bikes - Germany
*
Ross Ross or ROSS may refer to:
People
* Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan
* Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning
* Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland
Places
* RoSS, the Republic of Sou ...
- USA
*
Rover Company
The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company that operated from its base in Solihull in Warwickshire. Its lasting reputation for quality and performance was such that its first postwar model reviewed by '' Road & Track'' i ...
- UK
*
Rowbike
A rowbike is an example of a rowing cycle, hybrid fitness/transport machine that combines a bicycle, and a rowing machine. "Rowbike" is a trademark of the Rowbike company. The Rowbike was invented by Scott Olson, the creator of Rollerblade inl ...
- USA
*
Rudge-Whitworth
Rudge Whitworth Cycles was a British bicycle, bicycle saddle, motorcycle and sports car wheel manufacturer that resulted from the merger of two bicycle manufacturers in 1894, Whitworth Cycle Co. of Birmingham, founded by Charles Henry Pug ...
- UK
S
*
Salcano (bicycle)- Turkey
*
Samchuly
Samchuly is a leading bicycle company, and the largest bicycle manufacturer and retailer in Korea. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, Samchuly currently operates a manufacturing facility in Uiwang, with a production capacity of 300,000 bicycles ...
- Korea
*
Santa Cruz Bikes - (owed by Pon Industries Europe)
*
Santana Cycles
Santana Cycles is the world's leading manufacturer of tandem bicycles. Santana was founded in 1976 by Bill McCready, an Associate Editor at ''Bicycling Magazine'', and is located in La Verne, California. In the 1970s "Santana virtually re-invented ...
- USA (only makes tandem bicycles)
*
Saracen Cycles
Saracen Cycles, known simply as "Saracen" is a bicycle brand sold in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Originally based in Warwick, England, the company is best known for its range of mountain bikes.
Started in 1983, Saracen was a market le ...
- UK
*
Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania
Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania (''Maskinfabriks AB Scania''), translates ''Machine Factory Limited Company Scania'', was a Swedish bicycle manufacturer established in Malmö in 1900. The company rapidly expanded to manufacture other products li ...
- Sweden
*
Schwinn Bicycle Company
The Schwinn Bicycle Company is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets bicycles under the eponymous brand name.
The company was originally founded by Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1948) in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manuf ...
- American brand now owned by Dorel Industries of Canada
*
SCOTT Sports
Scott Sports SA (formerly Scott USA) is a Swiss producer of bicycles, winter equipment, motorsports gear and sportswear. The company's main office is in Givisiez, Switzerland, with branches in Europe and in the United States, South Africa and In ...
- Switzerland
*
SE Racing
SE Racing was a BMX bicycle company which was founded in 1977 by Scot Breithaupt (Scot Enterprises). The company manufactured the PK Ripper BMX bike and the Floval Flyer.''BMX Plus!'' July 1994 Vol.17 No.7 pg.48 The PK Ripper is the longest runnin ...
now SE Bikes PK Ripper and Floval Flyer maker, USA
*
Serotta
Serotta is an American bicycle builder located in Saratoga Springs, New York (state), New York. Named after founder Ben Serotta, the company was founded in 1972.
Serotta built frames for the Coors, Crest and 7-Eleven Cycling Team, 7-Eleven pro te ...
- USA
*
Seven Cycles
Seven Cycles is an American bicycle designer and manufacturer based in Watertown, Massachusetts. Seven, a bespoke bicycle brand, was founded by Robert Vandermark in early 1997. Vandermark was the former head of research and development at Merli ...
- USA
*
Shelby Cycle Company
The Shelby Cycle Company manufactured bicycles in Shelby, Ohio from 1925 to 1953. Their bikes are popular among collectors for their styling. They produced a bicycle in 1928 with a Charles Lindbergh theme called the "Lindy Flyer", and they were re ...
- USA (defunct)
*
Shimano
, originally and later , is a Japanese multinational manufacturing company for cycling components, fishing tackles and rowing equipment, who also produced golf supplies until 2005 and snowboarding gear until 2008. Named after founder Shozaburo ...
- Japan
*
Simpel
Simpel GmbH is a Swiss bicycle manufacturer. Its bikes are sold under the "Simpel.ch" brand. The company's headquarters is Maschwanden in the Canton of Zürich.
Simpel was founded in 2000 by Philip Douglas and Joachim Schneebeli. The business id ...
- Switzerland
*
Simson - Germany (acquired by
Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
''Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau'' ("Industrial Association for Vehicle Construction"), usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in the former East Germany.
IFA produced bicycles, motorcycles ...
, now defunct)
*
Sinclair Research
Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge. It was originally incorporated in 1973 as Westminster Mail Order Ltd, renamed Sinclair Instrument Ltd, then Science of Cambridge Ltd, the ...
- UK
*
Singer
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...
- UK (defunct)
*
Softride
Softride was a manufacturer of bicycles located in Bellingham, Washington. They specialized in bicycles for triathletes. The bicycle frames were distinctive for their lack of seat tubes and seat stays. The idea was to reduce aerodynamic drag an ...
- USA
*
Sohrab
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, death_place = Turan
, death_cause = Killed in combat by his father, Rostam, with neither Rostam nor Sohrab awa ...
- Pakistan
*
Solé Bicycle Co.
Tonya Michelle Johnston (born July 17, 1973), better known by her stage name Solé, is an American rapper from Kansas City, Missouri.
Biography
Solé was born in 1973 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Phyllis Frazier and James Johnston, Her sibl ...
- USA
*
Solex Solex may refer to:
* Solex (musician), Dutch musician
* Solex Carburetor, a French manufacturer of carburetors and the powered bicycle VéloSoleX
* Solex College, a former private for-profit college in Chicago, Illinois
* Solex Unit, a fictiona ...
- France (defunct)
*
Solifer
Solifer Oy is a Finnish manufacturer of bicycles, boats, mopeds and travel trailers. The company was founded in 1954, and it started as a dynamo manufacturer. As of 2007, the company's bicycles are manufactured in Poland, boats in Finland, mopeds ...
- Finland
*
SOMA Fabrications
SOMA Fabrications is a designer and importer of bicycles, frames, parts and accessories based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was established in 2001 and owned by bicycle parts wholesaler The Merry Sales Co.
The SOMA Fabrications brand came ab ...
- USA
*
Somec - Italy
*
Spalding - USA (sold/distributed bicycles during the latter part of the 19th Century)
*
Sparta B.V. - Netherlands
*
Specialized - USA Designer only
*
Speedwell bicycles
Speedwell was a brand of bicycle manufactured by Bennett & Wood, a firm established by Charles W. Bennett and Charles R. Wood in 1882 in Sydney. As motorcars and motorcycles became available Bennett and Wood entered the motor trade. They built an ...
- Australia (defunct)
*
Star Cycle Company - UK
*
Stearns - USA (defunct)
*
Stelber Cycle Corp Stelber Cycle Corp was a manufacturer of bicycles located in New York City. It was granted a patent for a bicycle stabilizer in 1952. It offered cruiser bicycles in the 1950s and several models during the 1960s in the wheelie bike style designed by ...
- USA
*
Stella - France
*
Sterling Bicycle Co.
Sterling Bicycle Co. (also known as Sterling Cycle Works) was a 19th-century American bicycle company first based in Chicago, Illinois before relocating to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
History
In 1894 Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky traveled "around ...
- USA
*
Steyr
Steyr (; Central Bavarian: ''Steia'') is a statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd l ...
- Austria (defunct)
*
Strida
Strida is a portable belt-driven folding bicycle with a distinctive 'A'-shaped collapsible frame, designed by British engineer and designer Mark Sanders. The first model, Strida 1, was released in 1987 and the latest, Strida 5.2, in 2009.
...
- UK
*
Sun Cycle & Fittings Co. - UK (defunct)
*
Sunbeam
A sunbeam, in meteorological optics, is a beam of sunlight that appears to radiate from the position of the Sun. Shining through openings in clouds or between other objects such as mountains and buildings, these beams of particle-scattered sunl ...
- UK (defunct)
*
Surly Bikes
Surly Bikes, or Surly, is a bicycle brand based in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States, that was founded in 1998. It is a division of Quality Bicycle Products, a manufacturer and distributor of bicycles and bicycle parts. Despite sharing a simi ...
- USA
*
Suzuki
is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs ...
- Japan
*
Swift Folder - USA
*
Swing Bike A Swing Bike is a brand of bicycle which allowed for steering at both the front wheel and the rear wheel. The design was patented by Ralph Belden in 1974, brought to market in 1975, and discontinued by 1978. The name has come to mean any bike with a ...
- USA (defunct)
*
Syracuse Cycle Company - USA (defunct)
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*
Tern
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Terns are treated as a subgroup of the family Laridae which includes gulls and skimmers and consists of e ...
- Taiwan
*
TerraTrike - USA (recumbent tadpole trikes)
*
Terrot
Terrot was a motorcycle manufacturer in Dijon, France.
Charles Terrot and Wilhelm Stücklen had founded a machinery factory in Cannstatt, Germany in 1862, and Terrot added a branch factory in Dijon in 1887, and in 1890 the Dijon factory added ...
- France (defunct)
*
Thomas
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
- USA (defunct)
*
Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...
- France
*
Titus
Titus Caesar Vespasianus ( ; 30 December 39 – 13 September 81 AD) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death.
Before becoming emperor, Titus gained renown as a mili ...
- USA (defunct, since absorbed into Planet X Bikes)
*
Tommaso bikes - USA
*
Torker
Torker was a brand of bicycles and unicycles owned by Seattle Bike Supply, headquartered in Kent, Washington.
History
The Torker name was created by Johnson Engineering in Fullerton, California, Fullerton, California, CA in 1977 for a BMX bike ...
- USA
*
Trek Bicycle Corporation
Trek Bicycle Corporation is a bicycle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Electra Bicycle Company, Bontrager, and Diamant Bikes. The company has previously manufactured bikes under the Gary Fisher, LeMond Rac ...
- USA, also
Klein Bikes
Klein was a bicycle company founded by Gary Klein that pioneered the use of large diameter aluminium alloy tubes for greater stiffness and lower weight.
Klein produced his first bicycle frames while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
,
LeMond Racing Cycles
LeMond Racing Cycles is a bicycle company founded by Greg LeMond, the only American winner of the Tour de France.
LeMond initially offered bicycle frames with a geometry based on the racing bikes he used in competition, with a longer top tube and ...
(both discontinued) and
Gary Fisher Bikes
*
Trident Trikes
Trident Trikes is a manufacturer of recumbent tricycles, based in Lincolnton, North Carolina
Lincolnton is a city in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States, within the Charlotte metropolitan area. The population was 10,486 at the 2010 ...
- USA (recumbent trikes)
*
Trinx - China, Taiwan, Russia, Iran, Philippines
*
Triumph Cycle
Triumph Cycle Co. Ltd., based in Nottingham, England, was a bicycle manufacturing company.
History
The genesis of what would become Triumph Cycle Company began during 1884 when Siegfried Bettmann emigrated to Coventry in England from Nurember ...
- UK (Owned by
Raleigh Bicycle Company
The Raleigh Bicycle Company is a British bicycle manufacturer based in Nottingham, England and founded by Woodhead and Angois in 1885. Using Raleigh as their brand name, it is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world. After being acqui ...
)
*
Triumph (TWN)
Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG or TWN, was a German bicycle and motorcycle company. In 1886, Siegfried Bettmann founded the Triumph bicycle factory in Coventry, England, and in 1896 he founded a second bicycle factory in his native Nuremberg, Ger ...
- Germany
*
Tube Investments
TI Group plc (formerly "Tube Investments") was a holding company for specialised engineering companies. It was based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It was registered as ''Tube Investments'' in 1919, combining the seamless steel tube businesses of Tu ...
- UK (owned
British Cycle Corporation
TI Group plc (formerly "Tube Investments") was a holding company for specialised engineering companies. It was based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It was registered as ''Tube Investments'' in 1919, combining the seamless steel tube businesses of Tu ...
) No longer manufacturers bicycles
*
Tunturi
Tunturi is a Finnish manufacturer of bicycles and fitness equipment.
History
Tunturi's history began in 1922. The foundations of the Tunturi brand began when brothers Aarne and Eero Harkke set up a small bike shop, ''Pyöräkellari Oy'', in T ...
- Finland
*
Turner Suspension Bicycles
Turner Suspension Bicycles, Inc. is an American bicycle frame manufacturer, based in Murrieta, California, Murrieta, California, specializing in full-suspension mountain bikes. Turner Bikes was founded in 1994 by David Turner, a former professio ...
- USA
U
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Univega Univega is a bicycle brand created during the bike boom of the 1970s by Ben Lawee (1926–2002), who founded Lawee Inc. to design, specify, and import bicycles initially manufactured in Italy by Italvega, and subsequently in Japan by Miyata.
Prio ...
- US. Part of
Derby Cycle
Derby Cycle AG, based in Cloppenburg, Germany, is one of the three largest manufacturers of bicycles in Europe. During the 2010/11 fiscal year Derby employed 756 people. Derby Cycle has a 14% market share in Germany. The Derby Cycle AG is listed i ...
*
Urago - France (defunct)
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*
Van Dessel Sports - USA
*
Velocite Bikes - Taiwan
*
Velomotors - Russia
*
VéloSoleX
VéloSoleX is a moped, or motorised bicycle, usually just referred to as 'Solex', which was originally produced by the French manufacturer Solex, based in Courbevoie near Paris, France. The company manufactured centrifugal radiators, carburetors ...
- France (Velosolex America markets the VELOSOLEX worldwide.)
*
Velo Vie - USA
*
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
- Germany
* Villiger - Switzerland, part of
Trek
*
Villy Customs
Villy Custom is an American lifestyle brand specializing in a luxury custom fashion designed cruiser bicycles for adults. Based in Dallas, the company was founded and is privately owned by entrepreneur Fleetwood Hicks, a former menswear fashion d ...
- USA
*
Vindec - UK
*
Vitus
Vitus is a Latin given name meaning lively and may refer to:
*Saint Vitus (c. 290 – c. 303), a Christian martyr
*Vitus of Hungary (died 1297), beatified friar
*Vitus (bicycles), a French bicycle manufacturer
* ''Vitus'' (film), a 2006 Swiss film ...
- France
*
Volae - USA, recumbent bicycles
*
Volagi - USA
W
*
Wanderer
Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to:
* Nomadism, Nomadic and/or itinerant people, working short-term before moving to other locations, who wander from place to place with no permanent home, or are vagrancy (people), vagrant
* The Wan ...
- Germany (defunct)
*
Waverley Cycles Manufactured by Indiana Bicycle Company USA
*
Waterford Precision Cycles
Waterford Precision Cycles is a small bicycle manufacturer based in Waterford, Wisconsin. Waterford produces high-end, custom, hand-built, steel-alloy frame bicycles, particularly road, criterium, stage, track, and cyclocross racing bicycles, tha ...
- USA,
*
Western Wheel Works Indiana USA built the Crescent brand
*
Whippet
The Whippet is a dog breed of medium size. It is a sighthound breed that originated in England, descended from the Greyhound. Whippets today still strongly resemble a smaller Greyhound. Part of the hound group, Whippets have relatively few ...
- UK
*
Wilderness Trail Bikes
Wilderness Trail Bikes (usually shortened to WTB) is a privately owned company based in Marin County, California, USA. Founded in 1982 as a company that specialized in mountain bike parts, today WTB sources and sells its product worldwide supplyi ...
- USA
*
Wilier Triestina
Wilier Triestina () is an Italian manufacturer of racing bicycles, founded in 1906 by Pietro Dal Molin in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. They are now based in Rossano Veneto, Italy.
History
Wilier Triestina started in a modest workshop on the ...
- Italy
*
Witcomb Cycles - UK
*
Wittson Custom Ti Cycles - Lithuania
*
Worksman Cycles
Worksman Cycles is a family-owned American manufacturer of bicycles and tricycles for industrial, commercial and recreational use. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Ozone Park in the borough of Queens in New York City. Previo ...
- USA, also imports Atlantic Coast Cruiser brand.
*
Wright Cycle Company
The bicycle business of the Wright brothers, the Wright Cycle Company (originally the ''Wright Cycle Exchange'') successively occupied six different locations in Dayton, Ohio. Orville and Wilbur Wright began their bicycle repair, rental and sales ...
- USA (defunct)
*
Whyte
Whyte may refer to:
*Whyte (surname), a family name
* Whyte, West Virginia
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Xootr
Xootr (pronounced "zoo-ter") is a manufacturer of folding kick scooters and was formerly a seller of folding bicycles. Xootr scooters are characterized by 180 mm wheels with aluminum hubs, and a hand brake for the front wheel (for the rear o ...
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Yamaguchi Bicycles
Yamaguchi Bicycles is a custom bike frame builder in Rifle, Colorado
Rifle is a home rule municipality in and the most populous community of Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 10,437 at the 2020 census. Rifle is a r ...
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Yamaha Yamaha may refer to:
* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, established in 1887. The company is the largest shareholder of Yamaha Motor Company (below).
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Yeti Cycles
Yeti Cycles is an American bicycle manufacturer located in Golden, Colorado.
Early history
Yeti Cycles was founded in 1985 by John Parker in California, when mountain biking was gaining in popularity. Parker was a welder who built movie sets in ...
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Zigo
Zigo is a brand of carrier bike designed by US companSOMA Cycle, Inc. located in South Orange, NJ. The product is convertible into a stroller. The forward-located position of the child carrier is similar to existing products in Europe.
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Zündapp
Zündapp (a.k.a. Zuendapp) was a major German motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1917 in Nuremberg by Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG and the machine tool manufacturer Thiel under the name "Zünder- und Apparatebau G.m.b.H." ...
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Head badge
A head badge is a manufacturer's or brand logo affixed to the head tube of a bicycle.
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List of bicycle part manufacturers
This article lists bicycle part manufacturers and brands past and present. For a list of bicycle manufacturers, see list of bicycle manufacturers.
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List of BMX bicycle manufacturers
List of BMX bicycles is a list of former and current manufacturers of BMX bicycles.
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List of electric bicycle brands and manufacturers
This article lists notable electric bicycle brands and manufacturers including electric unicycles.
Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others, sometimes designing the bi ...
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List of Australian bicycle brands and manufacturers
This page lists notable Australian bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. This article relates to pedal cycles, tricycles and power assisted cycles but does not include Motorcycles. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle p ...
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List of Japanese bicycle brands and manufacturers
This is a list of Japanese bicycle brands and manufacturers — as well as brands with models manufactured in Japan.
Japanese bicycle brands and manufacturers
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Outline of cycling
:''This article is an outline about the activity of cycling. For an outline about bicycles themselves, see outline of bicycles.''
:The following ''outline'' is provided as an overview of, as well as a topical guide to cycling:
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