Bicycle Manufacturers

Audi Design
All American BMX (brand: Dan Gurney BMX)
American Machine and Foundry
Basso
Basso bicycles is an Italian manufacturer of hand made road bicycles, founded in 1977 by the three Basso brothers, Marino, Renato and Alcide.

Batavus
Batavus Intercycle Corporation was the leading manufacturer of bicycles and mopeds in the Netherlands during the 1970s. During its most productive years, the company’s 350,000 sq. ft. Heerenveen, the Netherlands plant employed 700 craftsmen to produce 70,000 Batavus mopeds and 250,000 bicycles a year. During this time, Batavus was exporting 55 percent of its production with the remainder going to the Netherlands which had more than two million mopeds on the roads as of 1977.

Bianchi
F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A is a major Italian bicycle manufacturer founded in 1885.

Bickerton (folding bikes)
The Bickerton, also called the Bickerton Portable, was a portable, folding aluminium bicycle designed by Harry Bickerton and manufactured in the UK between 1971 and 1991.

Bike Friday (Green Gear Cycling Co.) (folding bikes)
Bike Friday is a brand of folding bicycle made by Green Gear Cycling, Inc. of Eugene, Oregon. (Cyclists often refer informally to the company itself as "Bike Friday" or the "Bike Friday company.").

BMW (produced by BOSSBi)
Boardman Bikes
Bohemian Bicycles
David Bohm started the business in 1994. The types of bicycles Bohemian built included: road, mountain, track, touring, tandem, and special needs.

Bridgestone
British Eagle
Brompton (folding bikes)
Brompton Bicycle, or simply Brompton, is a British company that specialises in folding bicycles, commonly known as "Bromptons".


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Cadillac
Calfee
Calfee Design, headquartered in La Selva, California, is a designer and manufacturer of high-end carbon fiber bicycle frame sets. The company is a world leader in carbon fiber bicycle technology, and its products are used by professional and serious amateur racers, as well as cycling enthusiasts.

Caloi
CALOI is a major Brazilian manufacturer of bicycles and bicycle equipment, based in São Paulo. Caloi was founded in 1898 by Italian immigrant Luigi Caloi and his brother-in-law, Agenor Poletti. In the 1960s, Caloi achieved some popularity producing folding bicycles. In 1972, Caloi introduced the Caloi 10, which became a cultural landmark and established the name Caloi in Brazil.

CCM
Around 1899 many smaller bicycle makers went out of business, and CCM became Canada's industry leader. Established "when the operations of four major Canadian bicycle manufacturers amalgamated: H. A. Lozier, Massey-Harris, Goold, and Welland Vale Manufacturing.

Cannondale
The company was founded in 1971 by Joe Montgomery to manufacture backpacks and bags for camping and later bicycle trailers for bicycle touring. Today, Cannondale produces many different types of high-end bicycles, hand made in USA, specializing in aluminum (rather than steel, titanium or carbon fiber) frames , a technology in which they were pioneers. The name of the company was taken from the Cannondale Metro North train station in Wilton, Connecticut.

Catrike
The company was founded in 1999 by Paulo Camasmie.

Cervélo
Cervélo Cycles is a Canadian manufacturer of racing bicycles which started operations in 1995.

Cinelli
Cinelli was founded in 1948 by Cino Cinelli, a former professional road racer and president of the Italian National Cyclist's Association.

Coker Cycles
At one time, Corker marketed the "Wheelman", a penny-farthing, with a 36-inch wheel in front and a 12-inch wheel behind, and for a short time in the 2000s, a cruiser-style bicycle with 36-inch wheels called the "Monster Cruiser".

Colnago
Colnago is a manufacturer of road-racing bicycles founded by Ernesto Colnago in 1954 in Cambiago, Italy.

Cycle Genius Recumbents
Cycle Genius Recumbents is a Houston, Texas company.

Dahon
David Hon, former physicist, reportedly inspired by the energy crisis of the 1970s, started the company in 1982.

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Dawes
Dawes is a British bicycle manufacturer, originally known for its high-quality hand-built bicycles and now a significant brand in the UK and elsewhere.

Jonas Øglænd (brand DBS)
Den Beste Sykkel, (lit. The Best Bike), better known as DBS, is a Norwegian bicycle brand, manufactured by Jonas Øglænd AS in Sandnes, Norway. The company was founded by Jonas Øglænd in 1892 in Sandnes, under the name of Øglænd Cyklelager.

Decathlon Cycles (bTwin, Rockrider)
DBS (Jonas Øglænd)
De Rosa
De Rosa is the family brand of Ugo De Rosa. His company became well known during the late 1960s and 70's for making road racing bicycles. The brand continues to achieve success in road racing.

Devinci
Devinci or 'Cycles Devinci' is a Canadian bicycle manufacturer, known for high quality handcrafted bicycles. Founded in Chicoutimi, in the Saguenay region of Quebec in 1987, Devinci was acquired by Félix Gauthier in 1993.

Downtube (folding bikes)
Ellis Briggs
Ellis Briggs Cycles was founded in 1936 by Mr. Leonard Ellis and Mr. Thomas Briggs hence the name Ellis-Briggs.

Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles
Elsworth Handcrafted Bicycles Inc. is a high end bicycle manufacturer based in California, United States.

Enigma Titanium
Enigma Titanium Limited is a British bicycle company founded by Jim Walker in 2005.

Falcon Cycles
Falcon Cycles is a British bicycle manufacturer. In addition to producing bikes under its own name, Falcon produces bicycles under several brand names including Falcon, British Eagle, Coventry Eagle, Townsend, Optima, Boss, Shogun, CBR and the flagship brand, Claud Butler.

Felt
Felt is an American bicycle manufacturer, specializing in high-end racing bicycles at a low price.

Flying Pigeon
Flying Pigeon is a Chinese bicycle company based in Tianjin.

Fuji Advanced Sports
Fuji Advanced Sports, Inc., better known as Fuji Bikes, is an American manufacturer of bicycles originally established in Japan in 1899. The company takes its name and logo from Mount Fuji, a Japanese symbol of strength and endurance.

Gazelle
The company was founded 1892 by Willem Kölling and Rudolf Arentsen. Initially they sold bicycles that had been imported from England but they started their own production using the Gazelle name in 1902.

Gianni Motta
Gianni Motta (born March 13, 1943) is an Italian former bicycle racer who won the 1966 Giro d'Italia . Gianni Motta was born at Cassano d'Adda (Lombardy). His main victories include the Giro d'Italia (1966), a Giro di Lombardia (1964), a Tour de Suisse (1967) and two Tour de Romandie (1966, 1971). Like many before him, he turned to manufacture and sales of bicycles after his racing career.

Giant Manufacturing
Established 1972 in Tachia, Taichung, Giant started as an OEM, manufacturing bicycles to be sold under other company brand names. In 1986, Giant, established its own brand of bicycles.

Gitane
Gitane, based in Machecoul (near Nantes, France), is a French manufacturer of bicycles; the name "Gitane" means gypsy woman.

Graflex (originally the bicycle company Folmer & Schwing)
GT Bicycles
GT Bicycles is a large American manufacturer of road, mountain, and bmx bicycles. The company was founded in 1979 by Gary Turner and Richard Long.

Guerciotti
Guerciotti are an Italian company that produce road, time trial, track and mountain bikes. Their top racing bikes "exemplify the Italian racing bicycle paradigm".

Haro
Haro Bicycle Corporation, as it is now known, was founded in 1978 by Bob Haro. Bob got his start by producing numberplates for BMX bikes in his bedroom. Demand for these stylish plates quickly outgrew Bob's one man capacity. Haro Designs, the first name of the company, was formed in 1980 with headquarters in Torrance, California.

Harley-Davidson
Helkama
Is mostly known as a bicycle brand.

Hercules Cycle and Motor Company
The Hercules Cycle and Motor Company Limited was founded on 9 September 1910 in Aston in England. The name Hercules was chosen for its associations of durability and robustness.

Hero Cycles Ltd
Hero group was started by the four Munjal brothers, hailing from a small town called Kamalia, now in Pakistan in the year 1944 by establishing bicycle spare parts business in Amritsar. After independence and partition of India, they moved to Ludhiana and started a bicycle unit called Hero Cycles in 1956. By 1975, Hero cycles became the largest bicycle manufacturer in India.

Huffy
The Huffy Corporation is an American importer and manufacturer of inexpensive mass-market bicycles.

Humber
Made by Humber car manufacturer from the 1880s until 1932 when sold to Raleigh, who continued the brand name into the 1970s.

Husqvarna
Ibis
Ibis Bicycles was founded by Scot Nicol, one of the earliest mountain bikers in northern California.

Ideal Bikes
The company Maniatopoulos Bros S.A. was founded in Patras in 1926, originally as an importer of bicycles and (later) motorbikes. In 1987 it was renamed Nikos Maniatopoulos S.A. The brand Ideal is used since 1977; in 1991 production moved to Agios Vassileios, while an export campaign established the brand in over 20 countries.

IFA
Independent Fabrication
Independent Fabrication was formed by the former employees of Fat City Cycles. They twice won the Bicycling Magazine Dream Bike of the Year for their carbon tubed titanium lugged XS road frameset. Independent Fabrication is an employee-founded and -owned corporation.

Iron Horse Bicycles
The company was founded in 1987. Their logo is that of a prancing horse on a mustard-color crest.

Italvega
The handbuilt Italvega bikes were designed and manufactured within the noted Torresini workshop at the Torpado factory in Padua, Italy. They were built beginning in 1970 and continuing through the mid- to late-70's before the operation was moved to Japan under the name Univega.

Itera
The Itera Plastic Bicycle was an attempt in the early 1980’s in Sweden to reform and modernize the conventional bicycle design and production technology. Its basic idea was to replace metal by plastic fiber composite materials and take advantage of the modern production technology, based on automatized injection moulding technique. The project, however, was terminated 3 years after its introduction and was considered as a commercial failure.

J. K. Starley & Co. Ltd
John Kemp Starley (1854 - 1901) was an English inventor and industrialist who is widely considered to be the inventor of the modern bicycle. In 1885 Starley made history when he produced the Rover Safety Bicycle - a rear-wheel-drive, chain-driven cycle with two similar-sized wheels, making it more stable than the previous high wheeler designs. Cycling magazine said the Rover had 'set the pattern to the world' and the phrase was used in their advertising for many years. Starley's Rover is usually described by historians as the first recognisably modern bicycle. This new "safety bicycle" was an immediate success and was exported across the world.

Jeep
JMC Bicycles
JMC, or Jim Melton Cyclery was a popular bicycle company in the late 1970s and early 1980s. JMC started out as a bicycle shop in 1969. It began manufacturing its own bicycle components in 1974. In 1977 JMC began manufacturing true BMX bicycles, becoming a factory as well as a bicycle shop.

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K2 Sports
K2 Inc. (NYSE: KTO) was founded in 1961 by brothers Bill and Don Kirschner in Vashon Island, near Seattle, Washington.

Kappa
Kappa Bicycle Company, LLC was founded in 1999 by Scott Hice. Kappa manufactures old school style BMX bikes.

Kawasaki
Kestrel USA
Kestrel is an American bicycle manufacturer specializing in high-end bikes for triathlon, road bicycle racing and mountain biking.

KHS Bicycles
KHS Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer founded in 1974 with main operations in the United States and Taiwan.

Kia
Kinesis Industry
Kinesis Industry Co. Ltd. is a manufacturer of aluminum and carbon fiber bicycle frames, forks, and components.

Kogswell Cycles
Kogswell Cycles, Inc. is a small manufacturer of bicycle frames.

Kona Bicycle Company
The company name comes from the owners' love of Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. Names of the bicycles started out with Hawaiian and volcanic-based names like the Caldera, Cinder cone, Kula, Hei Hei (Hawaiian for "race") and Lana'i. As the company established itself, Kona started to use more tongue-in-cheek humor in their bike names.

Kronan
The Swedish military bicycle (Swedish: militärcykel), or Swedish army bicycle, has been used in the Swedish military for over a century.

Land Rover (by Ultimate Cycles)
LeMond Racing Cycles
LeMond Racing Cycles is a bicycle manufacturer originally founded by Greg LeMond.

Alexander Leutner & Co. pioneering manufacturer in Russia, founded 1886.

Litespeed
Primarily known as a maker of high-end titanium framed racing bicycles and mountain bikes.

LOOK
LOOK, established in Nevers, France in 1951, was originally a ski equipment manufacturer. In the 1980s LOOK pioneered the use of "clipless pedals" for cycling applications, based on the equipment originally developed for ski bindings.

LotusSport (not related to Lotus Bicycles)
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Marin
Marin is a bicycle manufacturer based in Marin County, California that was established in 1986. It specializes in mountain bikes but also has a variety of other types of bicycles.

Maserati
Masi
A brand of road and track bicycles founded by Faliero Masi.

Medici
Medici Bicycle Company is the name of an American bicycle manufacturer established by Gian Simonetti and Michael Howard.

Mercian
Mercian are a small, high-end English bicycle manufacturer based in Derby, England and operating since 1946. They are named after the ancient kingdom of Mercia.

Merlin
The company was founded by Gwyn Jones, Gary Helfrich, and Mike Augspurger in Cambridge, Massachussetts in 1986.

Merckx
Mercedes-Benz
Mercier Cycles
Merida Bicycle Company
Miele
Miyata
Miyata is a bicycle manufacturer founded in Japan by Eisuke Miyata. Mr Miyata, a gunsmith employed by the Hitachi Kuni Kasama Clan, built Japan's first conventional, so called modern, bicycle at the Miyata Gun Factory in 1892.

Monark
Monark, also known as Cykelfabriken Monark AB and Monark AB, is a Swedish bicycle, moped and motorcycle manufacturer, established in Varberg, Sweden 1908 by the industrialist Birger Svensson.

Mongoose
The company was founded in southern California in 1974, with a single product, their famous cast magnesium wheels called MotoMags. It has since expanded to developing a wide range of bikes and performance parts, as well as skateboards, and electric scooters. It is heavily involved in professional bicycle events, and sponsors many riders.

Montague
Montague is a bicycle manufacturer that makes folding bicycles for civilian and military customers.

Moots Cycles
Founded in 1981 by Kent Erikson, who is now a member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, Moots has been identified as a source for innovation in the bicycle industry since its inception.

Moser Cicli
Francesco Moser began building racing bicycles after his retirement, in a small workshop in Trento, Italy. With a production of 2-3,000 frames annually, Moser's frames are relatively unique among Italian racing bicycles for being fillet brazed using silver solder rather than using lugs with brass brazing.

Motobécane
Motobécane was a French manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and other small vehicles, established in 1923.

Moulton
Moulton is an English bicycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1962 by Dr Alex Moulton, who designed the suspension system for the BMC Mini motorcar. Moulton bicyles are noted for unconventional frame design, small wheels, and front and rear suspension.

Murray
Murray was a well-known American manufacturer of low-cost bicycles. Murray bicycles featured one-piece steel cranksets and welded steel tubing characteristic of low priced American utility bicycles, and were commonly sold in department stores and discount chains.

National
National bicycles were imported into the United States under the Panasonic label. The brand was known for producing high quality cycles at a relatively low price.

Niner Bikes
Niner Bikes was founded by Chris Sugai and Steve Domahidy. The company manufactures 29er bicycle frames from steel, aluminum, and Scandium.

Olmo
As with many Italian bicycle racers, after his retirement in the 1930s he began building bicycles, and founded Olmo (also known as Olmo Biciclette).


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Orange
Orange is a bicycle manufacturer, based in Halifax, West Yorkshire in the UK.

Orbea
Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer based in Mallabia in the Basque Country of Spain. Originally a rifle and gun maker, the company shifted its business after the Spanish Civil War. Orbea produce a range of racing bicycle and mountain bikes.

Orient Bikes
Orient Bikes is a Greek manufacturer of bicycle founded in 1987.

Panasonic
Pashley Cycles
Pashley Cycles was formed by William 'Rath' Pashley in 1926. Previously, he had ridden as a dispatch rider in the First World War and gained engineering experience as an apprentice with Austin Motors. Initially the small company called Pashley and Barber (his wife's maiden name) manufactured all manner of bikes, but it was in carrier cycles that Pashley made their name.

Peugeot
Phillips
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.

Pinarello
Pinarello founded in 1952, is an Italian bicycle manufacturing company based in Treviso, Italy. The company supplies mostly hand-made, high end bicycles. The company makes bicycles for road racing, track racing and cyclo-cross.

Pocket Bicycles
Pocket Bicycles was the name of a manufacturer of portable bicycles located in Massachusetts in the 1970s.

Pogliaghi
Founded by Sante Pogliaghi in 1947, his company became one of the most sought-after bicycle frame builders. Pogliaghi himself did much of the work, but had up to six staff by the late 1970s, when production increased from 300 frames a year to around 800. Pogliaghi frames were used in Olympic and professional track racing.

Pope Manufacturing Company
Pope Manufacturing Company is a manufacturing company started by Albert Augustus Pope in Hartford, CT. The company began with the introduction of the "Columbia" High Wheeler in 1878. Pope bought Pierre Lallement's original patent for the bicycle, and aggressively bought all other bicycle patents he could find, amassing a fortune by restricting the types of bicycles other American manufacturers could make and charging them royalties.

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Renault
Ridgeback
Ridley
Ridley is a Belgium manufacturer of racing bicycles.

Riese und Müller
Riese and Müller was founded in 1993 to sell Hot Ears, earmuffs to keep the ears warm while wearing a helmet. The first bicycle, the folding bicycle known as the Birdy, started out in the garage of Heiko Müller's parents as a university project.

Rivendell Bicycle Works
Grant Petersen, who, while in charge of American marketing and bicycle design at Bridgestone, was responsible for the development of the famous Bridgestone XO-series, founded Rivendell in 1994.

Roberts Cycles
Beginning soon after World War II, Charlie Roberts started working as a frame-builder for some of the great names in British bicycles - Holdsworth, Claude Butler and Freddie Grubb. In the early 1960s, Charlie finally branched out on his own and started up Roberts Cycles in Croydon.

Robin Hood
Ross
Ross was a U.S. built line of bikes between 1950 and 1989.

Rover Company
Rowbike (maker of rowed bicycles or rowbikes)
Saab
Samchuly
Samchuly is a leading bicycle company in South Korea. The company, founded in 1944, produces the popular Lespo models.

Saracen Cycles
Saracen Cycles are a popular brand of bicycle made and sold in the United Kingdom.

Schwinn Bicycle Company
The Schwinn Bicycle Company was founded by Ignaz Schwinn in Chicago in 1895, and grew to become the dominant manufacturer of American bicycles through most of the 20th century.

Scott USA
Serotta
Named for founder Ben Serotta, the company has been making custom road and competition bicycles since the 1970s.


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Shimano
Shimano, Inc. is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of cycling components.

Shogun (bicycle)
Sinclair Research
Skoda
Somec
The Societa Mechanica was organized by Giro d'Italia mechanic Oliviero Gallegati in the 1960s, in order to set a group of working standards. When he opened his bicycle shop in Lugo, Italy, rather than following the almost universal custom in the Italian cycle industry of naming the company after himself, he instead named it Somec, for Societa Mechanica. A very small artisanal shop, Somec makes only a few bikes a year, out of steel or aluminum.

Sparta
Specialized Bicycle Components
St. Etienne
St. Etienne was a French bicycle manufacturer, located in the Loire valley, many of whose products were imported into the United States in the bicycle boom of the 1970s.

Sterling Bicycle Co.
Sterling Bicycle Co. (also known as Sterling Cycle Works) was a 19th century American bicycle company first based based in Chicago, Illinois before relocating to Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Strida
The Strida is a portable folding bicycle with a distinctive 'A'-shaped collapsible frame, designed by UK engineer and designer Mark A Sanders. The first model, Strida 1, was released in 1987.

Subaru
Surly Bikes
Surly Bikes is a manufacturer of bicycles, frames, parts, and accessories in Bloomington, Minnesota, established circa 1998.

Suzuki
Takara
Time
TIME Sport International is a French manufacturer of cycling equipment, including bicycle frames, cycling shoes, clipless bicycle pedals, cranksets, and gloves.

Torker
The Torker name was created by Johnson Engineering in Fullerton, CA in 1977 for a BMX bike frame. The first Haro bikes where made by Torker.

Trek
The Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major American bicycle and bicycle component manufacturer.

Triumph Cycle Co. Ltd.
Triumph begain selling bicycles in 1894. The company was originally registered as "New Triumph Co. Ltd." in 1887.

Tunturi
Tunturi is a Finnish manufacturer of bicycles and fitness equipment. The company was founded in Turku in 1922 by Aarne and Eero Harkke. Between the 1950s and 1990s the company also manufactured mopeds.

Turner Bikes
Turner Bikes was founded in 1993 by David Turner, a successful pro mountain bike rider.

Univega
Univega is a brand of bicycles that was subsumed under the Raleigh brand when Univega was acquired by Raleigh's parent company Derby International Corporation in 1997.

VéloSoleX
Founded at the turn of the last century, the company manufactured centrifugal radiators, carburetors, and micrometers, before branching into assist motors and bicycles.

Waterford Precision Cycles
Waterford produces high-end, custom, hand-built, steel-alloy frame bicycles, particularly road, criterium, stage, track, and cyclocross racing bicyles.

WeThePeople
Wethepeople is a manufacturer of BMX bicycles from Cologne, Germany. They sell complete bicycles as well as frames and parts.

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Witcomb Cycles
The company was founded in 1949 by Ernie Witcomb and his wife Lily.

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