Mogema is a registered brand trademark owned by Sportsinline International BV (Est. 1999), a
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company that specialized in the design and production of
inline- and
ice speedskating products. Sportsinline International was founded by the parent company of the Mogema group to design and produce speedskating products under the Mogema name. The company approached Design Engineer
Diederik Hol
Diederik Hol (born 10 April 1972) is a Dutch design engineer, designer of the Dual Box inline skate frame and the Narrow Shape Cross-Section (NSX) ice blade, and founder/director of skate company CadoMotus Skating BV.
Education and early career
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to design a whole range of ice and inline speedskates that evolved under Hol's direction into Mogema's modern product line.
The
't Harde
t Harde is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is situated about 6 km southeast of Elburg, on the edge of the Veluwe forest. It has a train station with connections to Zwolle and Amersfoort
Amersfoort () is a Cities of t ...
-based Mogema
metalworking
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group in the Netherlands was the first to commercially produce an inline speedskating frame after two employees – both speedskaters – began using company technologies in their own time to produce a specialized speedskating frame in 1985. The frame they produced for themselves was quickly in demand among their friends and fellow speedskaters and production soon expanded. An agreement was reached soon after for Mogema metalworking to produce quantities of the frame for sale by the Stouwdam skate shop in nearby
Oldebroek
Oldebroek () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the province of Gelderland. The municipality had a population of in .
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The Mogema-branded frames were produced from
extruded
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aluminium alloy and were soon sold around the world; becoming the must-have item for the world's elite roller speed skaters, who in 1992 had opened the World Speed Rollerskating Championships to inline skates for the first time. The frame design underwent a number of evolutions and eventually became the Mogema Diamond Series frame that for years was the most-prevalent inline speedskating frame in the world.
Mogema was a technological innovator in speedskating sports products – the most commercially successful being the
Dual Box inline skating
frames, a patented design developed by Diederik Hol while working at Mogema.
Late in 2006, lead designer Diederik Hol left Mogema to start his own skating company
CadoMotus. Although some inaccurate reports indicated Mogema itself was changing its name,
Mogema Changed His Name to CadoMotus
retrieved Nov 2006 the owners of Sportsinline International made the decision to dissolve the company at the end of that year. Hol established his own brand in 2007, together with Henk Schra (then owner of Stouwdam skate shop), producing a CadoMotus-branded frame using the Dual Box technology – the patent for which he had licensed from Sportsinline's owners.
References
External links
Mogema metalworking in 't Harde, NL
StouwdamSport skate shop in Oldebroek, NL
CadoMotus Skating BV
World Cup of Inline Racing
Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports
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Sporting goods manufacturers of the Netherlands
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Speed skating