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Bicycle

A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....

 brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle part manufacturing companies.

Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g., Nishiki

Nishiki (bicycle)

Nishiki was a brand of bicycles designed, specified, marketed and distributed by West Coast Cycle in the United States, initially manufactured by Kawamura Cyles in Kobe, Japan and subsequently by Giant of Taiwan. The bicycles were first marketed under the American Eagle brand beginning in 1965 and...

), 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

Badge engineering

Badge engineering is an ironic term that describes the rebadging of one product as another...

: a company with manufacturing capability may market models made by other (overseas) factories, while simultaneously manufacturing bicycles in-house, for example, high-end models.

International manufacturers

Bicycle manufacturers are now in many cases to "Groups", i.e. they have several product names - so-called "brands" ( brands ). Examples include the following:

• Accell Group, headquartered in Heerenveen (Netherlands),
• Cycleurope AB based in Stockholm (Sweden),
• Derby Cycle Corporation in Cloppenburg (Germany), and
• Dorel Industries
  Dorel Industries
  Dorel Industries Inc. is a Canadian company, based in Montreal, Quebec, which designs and manufactures for three areas: juvenile, home furnishings and recreational/leisure. It was formed in 1987 as a result of a merger between Dorel Co. Ltd., founded in 1962 by Leo Schwartz and Ridgewood...
  
   in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).

A

• A-bike
  A-bike
  The A-bike is a type of folding bicycle invented by Sir Clive Sinclair in the United Kingdom and released on 12 July 2006. It weighs and folds to 67×30×16 cm, small enough to fit in a rucksack....
  
   - UK
• Abici
  Abici
  Abici is an Italian bicycle manufacturer founded by entrepreneurs Giuseppe Marcheselli, Stefano Stelleti and Cristiano Gozzi in 2006. The company produces classic style bikes, handmade and tested in Italy. Abici has showrooms in Milan and Viadana.-History:...
  
   - Italy
• Accell
  Accell
  Accell Group NV is a Dutch holding company which owns several European bicycle manufacturers. Besides bikes, the Accell Group is also involved in the production of fitness equipment. Accell is one of the largest producers of bicycles and bicycle parts in the world.-Factories:The Accell Group has...
  
   - Dutch, owns Hercules, Staiger
  Staiger
  Staiger is the surname of* Carlos Staiger , German-American industrial enterpriser* Libi Staiger , American actress* Lucca Staiger , German college basketball player* Janet Staiger, American Professor of Communication...
  
  , Winora, Tunturi
  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 the Harkke brothers set up a small bike shop in Turku, Finland. The name Tunturi comes from the Finnish word for a fell...
  
  , Lapierre Mercier, Atala
  Atala (company)
  - History :The company was started by Gatti in 1919 and formally founded in Italy in 1921 by Cesare Rizzato and was notable for its racing bicycles which won several championships in the early 20th century. The company also had some championship success in the 1980s before hitting financial...
  
  , Batavus
  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 productive years, the company’s . Heerenveen plant employed 700...
  
  , Loekie, Koga-Miyata, and Sparta B.V.
• Adler
  Adler (automobile)
  Adler was a German automobile and motorcycle manufacturer from 1900 until 1957. Adler is German for eagle.-History:The Adler factory produced bicycles, typewriters, and motorcycles in addition to cars...
  
   - Germany (defunct)
• AIST
  Aist Bicycles
  Aist Bicycles , a subsidiary of Motovelo Corp is a Belorus bicycle company. "AIST" is the official partner of the Belarusian Federation of Cycling and the Belarus National Cycling team.-History:...
  
   - Belarus
• ALAN
  ALAN
  ALAN is an Italian bicycle manufacturer.In 1972, ALAN was the first company to introduce an all aluminum frameset made from aerospace grade aluminum...
  
   - Italy
• Alcyon
  Alcyon
  The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1890 and 1957.- Origins :Alcyon originated from about 1890 when Edmond Gentil started the manufacture of bicycles in Neuilly, Seine. In 1902, this was complemented by motorcycle production and in 1906, the first cars...
  
   - France (defunct)
• Alldays & Onions
  Alldays & Onions
  Alldays & Onions was an English automobile maker, it manufactured cars from 1898 to 1918. The cars were sold under the Alldays name. The company also built an early British built tractor, the Alldays General Purpose Tractor.-History:...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• American Bicycle Company
  American Bicycle Company
  American Bicycle Company was an American bicycle company. American Bicycle was founded by Albert Augustus Pope, owner of the Columbia Bicycle. In 1898, the U.S. bicycle industry was caught in a downward spiral of market saturation, over-supply and intense price competition. Pope issued an affidavit...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• American Machine and Foundry (widely known as AMF
  AMF
  AMF may refer to:* Action Message Format, a protocol for object remoting* Additive Manufacturing File Format, a protocol for 3D printing* Adios Motherfucker, a mix drink with high alcoholic content.* Afghan Militia Force, as designated by various U.S...
  
  ) - USA (defunct), formerly owned Roadmaster
  Roadmaster (bicycles)
  Roadmaster is an American bicycle brand currently owned by Pacific Cycle, who in turn is owned by Dorel Industries of Canada.-History:In 1936 Roadmaster Bicycles are first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company...
  
  .
• Argon 18
  Argon 18
  Argon 18 is a Canadian cycle manufacturer started in 1989 by Gervais Rioux in Montreal, Quebec. The name is derived from the element, which is number 18 on the periodic table of elements; it's also one of six natural noble gases. The company's bikes use names derived from other elements...
  
   - Canada
• Ariel
  Ariel (vehicle)
  Ariel was a bicycle, motorcycle and automobile marque manufacturer based in Bournbrook, Birmingham, England. Car production moved to Coventry in 1911. The company name was reused in 1999 for the formation of Ariel Ltd, a sports car producer.-History:...
  
   - England (defunct)
• Atala
  Atala (company)
  - History :The company was started by Gatti in 1919 and formally founded in Italy in 1921 by Cesare Rizzato and was notable for its racing bicycles which won several championships in the early 20th century. The company also had some championship success in the 1980s before hitting financial...
  
   - Italy
• Author - Czech Republic
• Avanti
  Avanti (bicycle manufacturer)
  Avanti bikes is an Australasian company which originated from New Zealand and now distributes bicycles to many countries within Oceania.Avanti put its first bike into the New Zealand market in 1985 and since then has built its range to over 80 models catering for all areas of cycling...
  
   - New Zealand

B

• Basso
  Basso (bicycles)
  Basso bicycles is an Italian manufacturer of hand made road bicycles, founded in 1977 by the three Basso brothers, Marino, Renato and Alcide.Marino Basso was the world professional road-racing champion in 1972, winning the race in Gap, in the south of France....
  
   - Italy
• Batavus
  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 productive years, the company’s . Heerenveen plant employed 700...
  
   - Netherlands
• Beistegui Hermanos
  Beistegui Hermanos
  Beistegui Hermanos S.A. is a Spanish bicycle manufacturer founded in 1909 to make guns. In the early 1920s, it began making bicycles and sponsoring cycling teams....
  
   - Spain
• Berlin & Racycle Manufacturing Company
  The Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company
  The Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company is notable as the longest lasting Canadian-based clock manufacturer. Company advertisements explained the pronunciation of the name as "Say Peginaw."...
  
   - Canada (defunct)
• Bianchi - Italy
• Bickerton
  Bickerton (bicycle)
  The Bickerton, also called the Bickerton Portable, was a portable aluminium folding bicycle designed by Harry Bickerton and manufactured in the UK between 1971 and 1991. It was the first genuinely portable bicycle - at that time folding bicycles tended to be 20" step-through frames with a simple...
  
   - UK (folding bikes) defunct
• Bike Friday
  Bike Friday
  Bike Friday is a brand of folding bicycle made by Green Gear Cycling of Eugene, Oregon, United States. Cyclists often refer informally to the company as Bike Friday.-Hardware:...
  
   - USA (Green Gear Cycling Co.) (folding bikes)
• Bilenky
  Bilenky Cycle Works
  Bilenky Cycle Works is an American handmade bicycle manufacturer formed in 1983. It is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It makes both frames and complete bicycles and restores and repairs bikes. The company is owned by Stephen Bilenky, a member of the musical group The Notekillers. It makes tandem...
  
   - USA
• Biomega
  Biomega (bicycles)
  Biomega is a Copenhagen-based, Danish brand of designer bicycles. It is known for engaging international top designers from outside the bicycle industry—including Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove and Karim Rashid— in designing its products...
  
   - Denmark
• Birmingham Small Arms Company
  Birmingham Small Arms Company
  This article is not about Gamo subsidiary BSA Guns Limited of Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B11 2PP or BSA Company or its successors....
  
   (widely known as BSA) - UK, no longer builds bicycles, TI of India builds BSA branded bikes.
• Boardman Bikes
  Boardman Bikes
  Boardman Bikes, is a British bicycle manufacturer, founded by the professional cyclist Chris Boardman, Sarah Mooney and Alan Ingarfield, and launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2007...
  
   - UK
• Bohemian Bicycles
  Bohemian Bicycles
  Bohemian Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer in Tucson, Arizona, USA . It makes handmade steel lugged frames. David Bohm, owner of Bohemian Bicycles, started the business in 1994....
  
   - USA
• Bontrager - USA (bought by Trek
  Trek Bicycle Corporation
  Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicycle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher, Bontrager, Klein and until recently, LeMond Racing Cycles...
  
   and converted into a component brand)
• Borile
  Borile
  Borile makes retro-modern bicycles and motorcycles in Venice, Italy, such as the B500CR, "a modern day interpretation of how a BSA Gold Star would look if it were produced today." Borile's technically advanced yet aesthetically vintage motorcycles are at the center of a marked retro wave during...
  
   - Italy
• Bottecchia
  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 in Italy, the rest in Asia, and all the bikes are...
  
   - Italy
• Bradbury
  Bradbury Motor Cycles
  Bradbury Motor Cycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Oldham, England and established in 1902.Originally involved in the manufacture of machine tools, sewing machines and cycles, their first motorcycles were bicycles with clip-on Minerva engines....
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Brasil & Movimento
  Brasil & Movimento
  Brasil & Movimento S.A. is a Brazilian company that manufactures motorcycles and bicycles since the year 2000.It sells its products under the Sundown Bikes trademark. Wholly owned by Brazilians, it employs over 1000 people and has 54,000 square metres of area over two separate factories...
  
   - Brazil (Branded as Sundown)
• Brennabor
  Brennabor
  Brennabor-Werke AG was a German manufacturer of infant buggies, bicycles, motor-cycles and, for two deacedes, of powered motor vehicles. It was based in Brandenburg an der Havel and operated between 1871 and 1945.- History :The company was set up in 1871 by three brothers named Adolf, Carl and...
  
   - Germany (defunct)
• Bridgestone - Japan
• British Eagle - UK
• Brompton Bicycle
  Brompton Bicycle
  Brompton Bicycle is a manufacturer of folding bicycles based in Brentford, London.The Brompton folding bicycle and accessories are the company's core product, noted for its self-supporting compact size when stored. All available models of the folding bicycle are based on the same hinged bicycle...
  
   - UK (folding bikes)
• Brunswick
  Brunswick Corporation
  The Brunswick Corporation , formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is a United States-based corporation that has been involved in manufacturing a wide variety of products since 1845. Brunswick's global headquarters is in the northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois...
  
   - USA, formerly owned Roadmaster
  Roadmaster (bicycles)
  Roadmaster is an American bicycle brand currently owned by Pacific Cycle, who in turn is owned by Dorel Industries of Canada.-History:In 1936 Roadmaster Bicycles are first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company...
  
  
• Burley Design - USA (no longer make bicycles)

C 

• Calcott Brothers
  Calcott Brothers
  Calcott was a small English motor vehicle manufacturer from Coventry in Warwickshire. The company began as a bicycle manufacturer in 1886 taking advantage of a boom in the cycling industry at that time...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Calfee Design - USA
• Caloi
  Caloi
  CALOI is a major Brazilian manufacturer of bicycles and bicycle equipment, along with motorized cycles like the past Mobilette models, 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...
  
   - Brazil
• Campion Cycle Company
  Campion Cycle Company
  The Campion Cycle Company was a British bicycle, cyclecar and motor cycle maker, active from 1901 to 1926 and based in Nottingham, England.In 1927 it was purchased by currys...
  
   - UK
• Cannondale
  Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
  The Cannondale Bicycle Corporation, is an American bicycle manufacturer, headquartered in Bethel, Connecticut with manufacturing and assembly facilities in Taichung, Taiwan...
  
   - USA
• Canyon bicycles
  Canyon Bicycles
  Canyon Bicycles GmbH is a German manufacturer of racing bikes, mountain bikes and triathlon bikes based in Koblenz, Germany.-Company history :...
  
   - Germany
• Carrera bicycles - UK (produced by produced by Merida Bikes
  Merida Bikes
  Merida Industry Co., Ltd is a Taiwan based bicycle design, manufacture, and sales company. It was started in 1972 as a small contract shop under a Japanese bicycle parts brand, by current chairman D.H. Ike, Tseng. Merida has expanded to the US and Europe and is now a global player in bicycle...
  
  )
• Catrike
  Catrike
  Catrike is a brand of lightweight tadpole-design recumbent tricycles manufactured by Big Cat HPV, LLC, which is based in Winter Garden, Florida, United States. The company was founded in 1999 by Paulo Camasmie....
  
   - USA (Recumbent)
• CCM - Canada
• Centurion
  Centurion (bicycle)
  Centurion was a brand of bicycles created in 1969 by Mitchell M. Weiner and Junya Yamakoshi, who co-founded Western States Import Co. in Canoga Park, California to design, specify, distribute and market the bicycles. The bikes themselves were manufactured initially in Japan by companies...
  
   - Japan
• Cervélo
  Cervélo
  Cervélo Cycles is a Canadian manufacturer of racing bicycle frames. 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, USA, to aid its designs. Frame materials include carbon...
  
   - Canada
• Chater-Lea
  Chater-Lea
  Chater-Lea was a British bicycle, car and motor cycle maker with a nine-storey factory in Banner Street in the City of London and, from 1928, premises at Letchworth, Hertfordshire. It was founded by William Chater-Lea in 1900 to make bicycle components. It made cars between 1907 and 1922 and...
  
   - UK
• Chicago Bicycle Company
  Chicago Bicycle Company
  The Chicago Bicycle Company was an American bicycle company which operated from 1994 to 1997.-History:Founded and owned by Vermont Teddy Bear Company owner John Sortino, the company had its headquarters in Burlington, Vermont with production taking place in Chicago, Illinois...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• CHUMBA
  CHUMBA Racing
  CHUMBA Racing is a manufacturer of recreational and competition mountain bikes located in Anaheim, CA-History:The company was founded in 1993 by Ted Tanouye, who studied mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California and is the son of a NASA aerospace engineer. Ted started out...
  
   - USA
• Cilo
  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....
  
   - Switzerland
• Cinelli
  Cinelli
  Cinelli is an Italian bicycle manufacturing company based in Milan, Italy, producing mostly road bicycles and components; production is estimated at 80 percent components, 20 percent bicycles.- History :...
  
   - Italy
• Clark-Kent
  Clark-Kent (Bicycles)
  Clark-Kent bicycles was a bicycle frame manufacturer based in Denver, CO. The name Clark-Kent was a hybrid of the names of the company owners, Pat Clark and Dean Kent, and had no connection with the alter ego of Superman beyond name recognition. Nor is it related in any way with Kent Bicycles of...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Claud Butler
  Claud Butler
  Claud Butler was a flamboyantLondon cycle dealer and frame-builder who from 1928 created a chain of branches in London and the Midlands. His company was one of the most successful of the inter-war era but failed after the second world war. The name was bought by other companies. Butler died on 2...
  
   - UK
• Clément - France (defunct)
• Co-Motion Cycles
  Co-Motion Cycles
  Co-Motion Cycles is an American bicycle manufacturer located in Eugene, Oregon. The company was formed in 1988. It is owned by Dwan Shepard and Dan Vrijmoet. The company makes high-end tandem and single bicycles. Co-Motion offers both custom frames and ready-made frames in standard dimensions...
  
   - USA
• Coker - USA
• Colnago
  Colnago
  Colnago is a manufacturer of high-end road-racing bicycles founded by Ernesto Colnago in 1954 near Milano in Cambiago, Italy. Instead of following his family's farming business Ernesto Colnago chose to work in the cycle trade, apprenticing first with Gloria Bicycles at 13, subsequently taking up...
  
   - Italy
• Corima
  Corima
  Corima is a French company that designs and produces carbon-composite wheels and frames for road and track cycling, cyclocross racing, triathlon racing, and wheelchair racing.- History :...
  
   - France
• Cortina Cycles
  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:...
  
   - USA
• Cube
  Cube (company)
  CUBE is a german bicycle manufacturer, producing any types of bikes, but is best-known for their mountain bikes.The company was founded 1993 from the former student Marcus Pürner, beginning with an area of 50 m² in his father's furniture factory. Today the company has expanded its production area...
  
   - Germany
• Currys
  Currys
  Currys is an electrical retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is owned by Dixons Retail plc. It specialises in selling home electronics and household appliances, with 295 superstores and 73 high street stores...
  
   - UK, no longer makes bicycles
• Cycleuropa Group - Sweden, manufactures such brands as: Gitane
  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 , Lucien Van Impe , Bernard Hinault , Laurent Fignon ,...
  
  , Monark
  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....
  
  , Puch
  Puch
  Puch is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.-Pre 1919:...
  
  .
• Cycle Force Group
  Cycle Force Group
  Cycle Force Group, also known as Cycle Force, is an American bicycle and bicycle Accessories importer. Cycle Source Group was established in 1998 by Nyle Nims as a service center and agent office for a group of Asian component makers and bicycle manufacturers in Taiwan....
  
   - USA
• Cyfac
  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 , "f" for fabriqué , "a" for "artisanal" , and the final C stands for cadres...
  
   - France

D 

• Da Bomb Bikes
  Da Bomb Bikes
  Da Bomb Bikes is a Taiwan-based bicycle company founded in 1998. They make bike frames of 7005 aluminium which are named after famous bombs or fighting machines: for example Cherry bomb, Tsar Bomba, Castle bravo, Arrow Bomb Gunpowder and Molotov. They focus on downhill and all mountain bikes often...
  
   - USA/Taiwan
• Dahon
  Dahon
  Dahon is the world's largest manufacturer of folding bicycles with a two-thirds marketshare in 2006. The company was founded by David T. Hon, a former laser physicist, in 1982 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with assembly factories in China, Macau and Bulgaria...
  
   - USA / China
• Dawes Cycles - UK
• Demorest - USA (restructured as Lycoming Foundry and Machine Company
  Lycoming Engines
  Lycoming Engines is a U.S. aircraft engine company, known primarily for its general aviation engines. For most of its history Lycoming has been part of the AVCO group as AVCO Lycoming. In 1987 AVCO was purchased by Textron to become Textron Lycoming...
  
   and discontinued bicycle manufacturing)
• Den Beste Sykkel
  Den Beste Sykkel
  Den Beste Sykkel, , better known as DBS, is a Norwegian bicycle brand, manufactured by Jonas Øglænd AS in Sandnes, Norway....
  
   Better known as DBS - Norway
• De Rosa
  De Rosa (bicycles)
  De Rosa is the family brand of Ugo De Rosa. De Rosa's company became renowned during the late 1960s and 70s for manufacturing road racing bicycles.- History :Company founder Ugo De Rosa was born on January 27, 1934 in Milan, Italy...
  
   - Italy
• Cycles Devinci
  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 bicycle used in bicycle sharing schemes in cities such as Montreal and Toronto. Devinci supplies a similar...
  
   - Canada
• Di Blasi Industriale
  Di Blasi Industriale
  Di Blasi Industriale is an Italian manufacturer of folding bicycles, tricycles, and mopeds, based in Francofonte, Sicily. The company's products are suitable for being transported by car, boat, or airplane, and are designed and manufactured entirely in-house....
  
   - Italy
• Diamondback Bicycles
  Diamondback Bicycles
  Diamondback Bicycles is a major bicycle brand that is based in Kent, Washington and has the same owners as the Raleigh Bicycle Company. Diamondbacks are sold in many countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom...
  
   - US
• Dorel Industries
  Dorel Industries
  Dorel Industries Inc. is a Canadian company, based in Montreal, Quebec, which designs and manufactures for three areas: juvenile, home furnishings and recreational/leisure. It was formed in 1987 as a result of a merger between Dorel Co. Ltd., founded in 1962 by Leo Schwartz and Ridgewood...
  
   - Canada, Owns Pacific Cycle
  Pacific Cycle
  For the Taiwan-based folding bicycle company see: Pacific CyclesPacific Cycle, Inc. is an American bicycle importer and distributor founded in 1977 by Chris Hornung. The company owns the following brands; Schwinn, Mongoose, Roadmaster DYNO , InSTEP, Pacific Outdoors, Powerlite and Cannondale....
  
   and markets under brand names including Cannondale
  Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
  The Cannondale Bicycle Corporation, is an American bicycle manufacturer, headquartered in Bethel, Connecticut with manufacturing and assembly facilities in Taichung, Taiwan...
  
  , Iron Horse
  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...
  
  , Schwinn, Mongoose
  Mongoose (bicycles)
  Mongoose is a brand name of performance bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and sold by BMX Products, Inc. Mongoose merged in 2001 with Pacific Cycle, a subsidiary of Dorel Industries. It produces several models of BMX, mountain bikes, and street bicycles, making ample use of light weight...
  
  , Roadmaster, and GT
  GT Bicycles
  GT Bicycles is a large American manufacturer of road, mountain, and bmxbicycles. The company was founded in 1979 by Gary Turner, a welding engineer and Richard Long, a bike shop owner. The company merged with Schwinn in 1998, but the conglomerate went bankrupt in 2001, and was acquired by Pacific...
  
  .
• Dunelt
  Dunelt Motorcycles
  Dunelt Motorcycles was a British motorcycle and bicycle manufacturer. Based in Sheffield, the business was founded by two steel makers and engineers, Dunford and Elliott of Sheffield in 1919. Their first motorcycle was an innovative supercharged 499 cc two-stroke single...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Dynacraft
  Dynacraft BSC
  Dynacraft BSC is a United States based designer and marketer of bicycles. Dynacraft is based in American Canyon, California and its distribution center is located in Napa, California...
  
   - USA, owns Magna
  Magna (bicycle company)
  Magna is an American bicycle brand owned by Dynacraft BSC. Magna bikes are produced in China and are sold in American retail stores like Target and Wal-Mart.-Bicyles:Magna offers bicycles in many different colors and sizes from child to adult...
  
   and Next
  Next (bicycle company)
  Next is an American bicycle brand owned by Dynacraft BSC. Next bikes are produced in China and are sold in the American retail stores Wal-Mart.-Models:Next offers kids, BMX, and mountain bikes.18"* Misty - girls 6-9 years old...
  
  

E 

• Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company
  Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company
  Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company based in Torrington, Connecticut built bicycles from 1888 - 1900.At one time Eagle had a capacity of from 20,000 to 30,000 bicycles annually....
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Electra Bicycle Company
  Electra Bicycle Company
  Electra Bicycle Company is a Vista, California-based bicycle brand/company, founded in 1993 by Benno Bänziger and Jeano Erforth. The company offers a wide range of modern cruiser bicycles and is credited with re-popularizing the cruiser bike. Additionally Electra designed and sells comfort...
  
   - USA
• Ellis Briggs
  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....
  
   - UK
• Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles
  Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles
  Elsworth Handcrafted Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer based in Ramona, California with manufacturing facilities in Vancouver, Washington. Founded by Tony Ellsworth in 1991, it produces a range of trail, free-ride, and road bikes. Ellsworth also produce a designer/cruiser bike known as "The Ride"...
  
   - USA
• Emilio Bozzi
  Emilio Bozzi
  Emilio Bozzi was an Italian businessman, known for his bicycle manufacturing company.He established the Emilio Bozzi & Co. bicycle manufacturer in Milano , the first model being the "Aurora"....
  
   - Italy (acquired by Bianchi
  Bianchi
  Bianchi, a plural of bianco , is a frequent proper name; notable people with that surname include:*Andrea Bianchi, an Italian film director*Bianca Bianchi , stage name of Bertha Schwarz, German/Austrian opera soprano...
  
  )
• Enigma Titanium
  Enigma Titanium
  Enigma Titanium Limited is a British bicycle company founded by Jim Walker in 2005. Mark Reilly, formerly of Omega Titanium, is the lead designer. The company produces titanium, steel and carbon fibre frames aimed at the top-end market...
  
   - UK
• Excelsior
  Excelsior Motor Company
  Excelsior, based in Coventry, was a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker. They were Britain’s first motorcycle manufacturer, starting production of their own ‘motor-bicycle’ in 1896...
  
   - UK (defunct)

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• Falcon Cycles
  Falcon Cycles
  Falcon Cycles is an English bicycle manufacturer based in Brigg, North Lincolnshire. The company can trace its history back over 125 years.In addition to producing bikes under its own name, Falcon produces bicycles under several brand names including Falcon, British Eagle, Coventry Eagle, Townsend,...
  
   - UK
  • Claud Butler
    Claud Butler
    Claud Butler was a flamboyantLondon cycle dealer and frame-builder who from 1928 created a chain of branches in London and the Midlands. His company was one of the most successful of the inter-war era but failed after the second world war. The name was bought by other companies. Butler died on 2...
    
    .
• Fat City Cycles
  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...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Felt
  Felt (bicycles)
  Felt Racing is an American bicycle manufacturer based in Irvine, California. Felt produces road, mountain, track, bmx, cyclocross and cruiser bikes. The company also has a strong reputation in the time trial/triathlon bike area.-History:...
  
   - USA
• Fleetwing
  Fleetwing
  Fleetwing may refer to two American bicycle companies.-19th Century company:The original Fleetwing Bicycle company was based in Buffalo, New York circa 1890-1930.-20th Century company:...
  
   -USA (defunct)
• Field Bikes
  Field Bikes
  Field Bikes is one of the largest Greek manufacturers of bicycles, based in Thessaloniki. The company was founded in 1993 and produces a wide variety of bicycle types, as well as exercise and fitness equipment....
  
   - Greece
• Flying Pigeon
  Flying Pigeon
  Flying Pigeon is a Chinese bicycle company based in Tianjin, a direct-controlled municipality, in Northeastern China .-Origins:In 1936, a Japanese businessman built a factory in Tianjin which was named “Changho Works” and started to make “Anchor” bicycles. The brand name was changed to “Victory”,...
  
   - China
• Flying Scot - Scotland
• Focus Bikes
  Focus Bikes
  Focus Bikes is a bicycle manufacturer that has its administration and production facilities based in Cloppenburg, Germany and builds sport bicycles such as racing bicycles and mountain bicycles.-History:...
  
   - Germany
• Follis
  Follis (bicycles)
  Cycles Follis, founded in 1903 and previously based in Lyon, France, is a long-established artisan manufacturer in the French bicycle industry. Cycles Follis builds a range of bicycles, but is particularly well-known for its tandem and racings. The Follis bicycle company is no longer in business as...
  
   - France (defunct)
• Fram
  Fram (bicycle)
  For other uses, see Fram Fram was a Swedish bicycle manufacturer. Fram dated back to 1897 and was manufactured in Uppsala, Sweden until the early 1970s . The company B. Bernh. Oberg & Co. was founded by Bernhard Oberg in 1897 and began manufacturing bicycles similar to competitor Nyman companies...
  
   - Sweden (defunct)
• Freddie Grubb - UK
• Fuji Advanced Sports
  Fuji Advanced Sports
  Fuji Bikes, is an American distributor of bicycles built in Taiwan, China, and Poland. The company is a descendant of , a bicycle manufacturer originally established in Japan in 1899. The company took its name and logo from Mount Fuji, a Japanese symbol of strength and endurance...
  
   - USA / Japan

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• Gary Fisher
  Gary Fisher
  Gary Christopher Fisher is considered one of the inventors of the modern mountain bike.Fisher started competing in road and track races at 12. He was suspended in 1968 because race organizers cited a rule that his hair was too long. By 1972 this rule had been repealed and Fisher's career continued...
  
   - USA
• Gazelle
  Gazelle (bicycle)
  Royal Dutch Gazelle is the largest and most famous bicycle manufacturer in the Netherlands. Gazelle employs 550 workers at its factory in Dieren, The Netherlands, producing 300,000 bicycles a year. Total production has passed 13 million.- History :...
  
   - Netherlands
• Gendron Bicycles - USA
• Gepida
  Gepida
  Gepida is a Hungarian manufacturer of bicycles established in 1996. It takes its name from the Gepids, an East Germanic tribe.Among its products are electric bicycles including the Gepida Reptila 1000, released in Autumn 2010. Its bicycles have been reviewed by various organisations and...
  
   - Hungary
• Giant Manufacturing
  Giant Manufacturing
  Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer which bills itself as the world's largest bicycle manufacturer. Giant has manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, Netherlands, and Mainland China.-History:...
  
   - Taiwan
• Gitane
  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 , Lucien Van Impe , Bernard Hinault , Laurent Fignon ,...
  
   - France
• Gladiator Cycle Company
  Gladiator Cycle Company
  The Gladiator Cycle Company 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 variously owned by the founders Alexandre Darracq and Paul Aucoq; from 1896 by Adolphe...
  
   - France (defunct)
• Gnome et Rhône
  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 rotary designs, while another 75,000 were produced by various licensees, powering the majority of aircraft in the first half of the war on...
  
   - France (defunct)
• Gormully & Jeffery
  Gormully & Jeffery
  Gormully & Jeffery was an American bicycle company, founded in Chicago by Thomas B. Jeffery and R. Phillip Gormully in 1878. It marketed bicycles under the Rambler brand, was at one time the second largest bicycle manufacturer in the US, and was sold to the American Bicycle Company in 1900....
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Graflex
  Graflex
  Graflex was a manufacturer, a brand name and several models of cameras. William F. Folmer, an inventor, built the first Graflex camera in 1898, when his company was called The Folmer and Schwing Manufacturing Company, founded originally in New York as a gas lamp company...
  
   (originally the bicycle company Folmer & Schwing) - USA (defunct)
• GT Bicycles
  GT Bicycles
  GT Bicycles is a large American manufacturer of road, mountain, and bmxbicycles. The company was founded in 1979 by Gary Turner, a welding engineer and Richard Long, a bike shop owner. The company merged with Schwinn in 1998, but the conglomerate went bankrupt in 2001, and was acquired by Pacific...
  
   - USA
• Guerciotti
  Guerciotti
  Guerciotti are an Italian company that produce cyclocross, road, time trial, track and mountain bikes. Their top racing bikes "exemplify the Italian racing bicycle paradigm".-History:...
  
   - Italy

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• Haro Bikes
  Haro Bikes
  -Haro Designs:The company was founded in 1978 by Bob Haro. Haro started out producing numberplates for BMX bikes in his bedroom. Demand for these stylish plates quickly outgrew his one man capacity. Haro Designs, the first name of the company, was formed in 1980 with headquarters in Torrance,...
  
   - USA, owns the Masi
  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 Vigorelli Velodrome in Milano in the 1950s, after a career as a professional racer and team mechanic...
  
   brand.
• Harry Quinn
  Harry Quinn
  Harry Quinn Cycles were a family owned high-end English bicycle manufacturer located in Liverpool, England.The business began in 1890 as Coronet Cycles, and Harry Quinn was the son of the founder. Initially, the company was based on Walton Road, Liverpool. Harry worked in the Walton Road premises...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Hase bikes - Germany
• Head - Norway, managed by SykkelSport Engros
• Helkama
  Helkama
  Helkama Oy is a Finnish company and umbrella brand, operating several subsidiaries that focus on bicycles , cables for ships and communications , househould appliances and refrigerators , accessories and imports for Škoda Auto automobiles , and automobile maintenance and import...
  
   - Finland
• Heinkel
  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.-History:...
  
   - Germany (defunct)
• Henley Bicycle Works
  Micajah C. Henley
  Micajah C. Henley was a Richmond, Indiana industrialist and inventor. He was a well known manufacturer of roller skates and bicycles sometimes known as "The Roller Skate King."...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Hercules
  Hercules Cycle and Motor Company
  For the German Bicycle and Motorcycle manufacturer see: Hercules Fahrrad GmbH & CoThe Hercules Cycle and Motor Company Limited was a British bicycle manufacturer founded on 9 September 1910 in Aston in England....
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Hercules - Germany
• Hero Cycles Ltd
  Hero Cycles Ltd
  Hero Cycles Limited, based in Ludhiana Punjab, India, is the world largest bicycle and related products manufacturing company of India.- History :...
  
   - India
• René Herse
  René Herse
  René Herse was a highly regarded builder of ultra high end touring and racing bicycles. His works are still sought after by collectors and riders.-Career:...
  
   - France
• Hetchins
  Hetchins
  Hetchins, Hetchins Lightweights since 1993, is a British make of road bicycle originally built in London. The brand takes its name from the founder of the firm, Hyman Hetchin....
  
   - UK
• Hillman
  Hillman
  Hillman is a British automobile marque created by the Hillman Motor Car Company, founded in 1907. The company was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Hoffmann
  Hoffmann (motorcycle)
  Hoffmann was a bicycle manufacturer in Ratingen-Lintorf, Germany. Between 1949 and 1954 the company also manufactured motorcycles. It made a range of models using engines from 125cc to 250cc made by ILO, and the Gouverneur, which had a transversely-mounted 248cc flat twin four-stroke engine...
  
   - Germany (defunct)
• Holdsworth
  Holdsworth
  Holdsworth was a bicycle manufacturer in London, United Kingdom. It was created by William Frank Holdsworth, known as Sandy. -Beginnings:...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Huffy
  Huffy
  The Huffy Corporation is an American importer and manufacturer of inexpensive mass-market bicycles. It was founded in 1887 when George P. Huffman purchased the Davis Sewing Machine Company and moved its factory to Dayton, Ohio. Seven years later, in 1894, Huffman adapted the factory to...
  
   - USA
• Humber
  Humber (bicycle)
  Humber is an English brand of bicycle.One model is the Humber Sport 3-speed pictured on this page. It includes an unusual fork design, called "Duplex", in which each blade consist of two separate tubes, and a stylish chainring that includes the shape of five persons.-History:Made by Humber car...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Hurtu
  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....
  
   - France (defunct)
• Husqvarna - Sweden (no longer a bicycle manufacturer)

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• Ibis
  Ibis (bicycles)
  Ibis Bicycles is a mountain bike manufacturer located in northern California. It currently produces the popular Mojo mountain bike frame among other models. Ibis products are distributed in 33 countries.-History:...
  
   - USA
• Ideal Bikes
  Ideal Bikes
  Ideal Bikes is a Greek bicycle manufacturer located in Agios Vassileios, near Patras.- History :The company Maniatopoulos Bros S.A. was founded in Patras in 1926, originally as an importer of bicycles and motorbikes...
  
   - Greece
• Indian - USA (defunct)
• IFA
  Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
  Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau , usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in the former East Germany ....
  
   - East Germany (defunct)
• Independent Fabrication
  Independent Fabrication
  Independent Fabrication is a bicycle company located in Newmarket, New Hampshire, USA. It is often mistakenly referred to as Independent Fabrications. IF fabricates bicycle frames from steel, titanium and carbon fiber. Independent Fabrication has twice won the Bicycling Magazine "Dream Bike of the...
  
   - USA
• Iron Horse Bicycles
  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...
  
   - USA
• Italvega
  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....
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Itera
  Itera plastic bicycle
  The Itera Plastic Bicycle was a 1980's Swedish attempt to modernize the bicycle by replacing metal with injection moulded plastic composite materials. The project ended in technical and commercial failure after three years.- History :...
  
   - Sweden (defunct)
• Iver Johnson
  Iver Johnson
  Iver Johnson was a U.S. firearms, bicycle, and motorcycle manufacturer from 1871 to 1993. The company shared the same name as its founder, Norwegian-born Iver Johnson .- Iver Johnson :...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Iverson - USA (defunct)

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• K2 Sports
  K2 Sports
  K-2, Corporation. was founded in 1961 by brothers Bill and Don Kirschner on Vashon Island, near Seattle, Washington. K2 is known for pioneering fiberglass ski technology, which made skis significantly lighter and more lively than their wood and metal contemporaries...
  
   - USA
• Kent
  Kent International, Inc
  Kent International Inc is an American company that is engaged in the import and distribution of bicycles and bicycle accessories on a worldwide basis. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey...
  
   - USA
• Kestrel USA
  Kestrel USA
  Kestrel is an American bicycle manufacturer headquartered in Santa Cruz, California specializing in high-end bikes for triathlon, road bicycle racing and mountain biking...
  
   - USA
• Kettler
  Kettler
  Kettler is a German company based in Ense-Parsit. The company produces bicycles, riding toys, leisure gear, patio furniture and exercise equipment.-External links:***...
  
   - Germany
• KHS - ROC and USA
• Kia
  Kia Motors
  Kia Motors , headquartered in Seoul, is South Korea's second-largest automobile manufacturer, following the Hyundai Motor Company, with sales of over 1.4 million vehicles in 2010...
  
   - ROK, no longer produces bicycles
• Kinesis Industry
  Kinesis Industry
  Kinesis Industry Co. Ltd. is a manufacturer of aluminum and carbon fiber bicycle frames, forks, and components. Based in Taiwan, it has a plant in Guangzhou, China, and an American subsidiary in Portland, Oregon that generates $5–$10million in annual sales...
  
   - Taiwan and USA, Kenesis produces its own bikes as well as brands manufactured by Kinesis include Diamondback
  Diamondback
  Diamondback may refer to:* Diamondback Bicycles, a division of Raleigh Bicycle Company* Crotalus atrox, the western diamondback rattlesnake* Crotalus adamanteus, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake...
  
  , Felt Bicycles, GT Bicycles
  GT Bicycles
  GT Bicycles is a large American manufacturer of road, mountain, and bmxbicycles. The company was founded in 1979 by Gary Turner, a welding engineer and Richard Long, a bike shop owner. The company merged with Schwinn in 1998, but the conglomerate went bankrupt in 2001, and was acquired by Pacific...
  
  , Schwinn, Jamis, K2
  K2 Sports
  K-2, Corporation. was founded in 1961 by brothers Bill and Don Kirschner on Vashon Island, near Seattle, Washington. K2 is known for pioneering fiberglass ski technology, which made skis significantly lighter and more lively than their wood and metal contemporaries...
  
  , Raleigh
  Raleigh Bicycle Company
  The Raleigh Bicycle Company is a bicycle manufacturer originally based in Nottingham, UK. It is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world. From 1921 to 1935 Raleigh also produced motorcycles and three-wheel cars, leading to the formation of the Reliant Company.-Early years:Raleigh's history...
  
  , Trek
  Trek Bicycle Corporation
  Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicycle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher, Bontrager, Klein and until recently, LeMond Racing Cycles...
  
  , and Kona
  Kona Bicycle Company
  Kona Bikes is a bicycle company in Ferndale, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. It specializes in high-performance mountain bikes, racing and touring bicycles. The company name comes from the owners' love of Kailua-Kona in Hawaii....
  
  
• Klein
  Gary Klein
  Gary Klein is an inventor, bicycle designer and innovator of the oversized tube aluminum bicycle, now a fixture in the cycling market. He first developed the concept in 1973 as part of the Independent Activities Period aluminum bicycle project at MIT, where he was an engineering student and bicycle...
  
   - USA (Discontinued brand owned by Trek)
• Kogswell Cycles
  Kogswell Cycles
  Kogswell Cycles, Inc. was a small bicycle frame company with its headquarters in El Dorado Hills, California. Kogswell frames are designed in the United States and manufactured in Taiwan. Kogswell frames often run counter to mainstream bicycle industry trends...
  
   - USA
• Kona
  Kona Bicycle Company
  Kona Bikes is a bicycle company in Ferndale, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. It specializes in high-performance mountain bikes, racing and touring bicycles. The company name comes from the owners' love of Kailua-Kona in Hawaii....
  
   - USA
• Kronan - Sweden
• Kross
  Kross SA
  Kross is a Polish company within the sports industry that makes bicycles and bicycle frames. The company is currently the largest in Poland manufacturing bicycles sold in the Polish market...
  
   - Poland
• KTM
  KTM
  KTM Sportmotorcycle AG is an Austrian motorcycle, bicycle and moped manufacturer.The company was founded in 1934 by engineer Hans Trunkenpolz in Mattighofen. It started out as a metal working shop and was named Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen...
  
   - Austria
• Kuota
  Kuota
  Kuota is an Italian bicycle manufacturer.They build high-end bicycles for road racing, mountain biking and triathlon. They have recently included a Cyclo-cross model in the range....
  
   - Italy
• Kuwahara
  Kuwahara (bicycle company)
  is a Japanese bicycle company manufacturing both bicycles and parts.The company was started as a small family business in Osaka, Japan in 1918 by Sentaro Kuwahara . With his wife and eight children, he began a local bicycle parts wholesaler...
  
   - Japan (Okinawa), is/was a private label
  Private label
  Private label products or services are typically those manufactured or provided by one company for offer under another company's brand. Private label goods and services are available in a wide range of industries from food to cosmetics to web hosting...
  
   bike manufacturer

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• Laurin & Klement
  Laurin & Klement
  Laurin & Klement was a bicycle, motorcycle and automobile manufacturer in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia, at the time also known in German as Jungbunzlau, and a part of Austria-Hungary ....
  
   - Austria-Hungary/Czech republic
• LeMond
  LeMond Racing Cycles
  LeMond Racing Cycles is a bicycle manufacturer originally founded by Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France . LeMond offered a geometry based on the racing frames he used in competition, which had a longer top tube and wheelbase in an otherwise traditional lightweight steel frame...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Alexander Leutner & Co.
  Alexander Leutner & Co.
  Alexander Leutner & Co. was the first manufacturer of bicycles and motorcycles, and a pioneer of automobiles, in the Russian Empire. The company was based in Riga.- Company history :...
  
   — Russia (defunct)
• Litespeed
  Litespeed
  Litespeed is a U.S. bicycle manufacturer founded by David Lynskey in Ooltewah, Tennessee, near Chattanooga. The company has its roots in a family-owned custom machine shop known as Southeast Machine that specialized in exotic metals...
  
   - USA
• Louison Bobet
  Louison Bobet (bicycles)
  Louison Bobet, a line of bicycles produced by famed French cyclist Louison Bobet following his cycling career.-External links:*...
  
   - France
• Lotus
  Lotus (bicycles)
  Lotus was a brand of bicycles designed, specified, marketed and distributed by Lotus International Corp. of Syosset, New York, which had been founded by Sid and Ernst Star...
  
  , USA (defunct)

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• Magna
  Magna (bicycle company)
  Magna is an American bicycle brand owned by Dynacraft BSC. Magna bikes are produced in China and are sold in American retail stores like Target and Wal-Mart.-Bicyles:Magna offers bicycles in many different colors and sizes from child to adult...
  
   - USA
• Malvern Star
  Malvern Star
  Malvern Star is a manufacturer of bicycles, located in Melbourne, Australia. It began in 1902, and went on to become a household name in Australia.-History:Malvern Star opened in a small shop at 58 Glenferrie Rd, in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern in 1902...
  
   - Australia
• Marin Bikes - USA
• Masi Bicycles
  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 Vigorelli Velodrome in Milano in the 1950s, after a career as a professional racer and team mechanic...
  
   - USA
• Matchless
  Matchless
  Matchless is one of the oldest marques of British motorcycles, manufactured in Plumstead, London, between 1899 and 1966. A wide range of models was produced under the Matchless name, ranging from small two-strokes to 750 cc four-stroke twins...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Matra
  Matra
  Mécanique Aviation Traction or Matra was a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to automobile, bicycles, aeronautics and weaponry. In 1994, it became a subsidiary of the Lagardère Group and now operates under that name.Matra was owned by the Floirat family...
  
   - France
• Melon Bicycles
  Melon Bicycles
  Melon Bicycles is a brand of folding bicycle produced by Lakeland Gear Inc. located in Candler, North Carolina just adjacent to Asheville, North Carolina. Melon was founded in July 2008 by Loran Evans, the current President and CEO of the company, as well as Rightline Gear...
  
   - USA
• Mercian Cycles - UK
• Merida Bikes
  Merida Bikes
  Merida Industry Co., Ltd is a Taiwan based bicycle design, manufacture, and sales company. It was started in 1972 as a small contract shop under a Japanese bicycle parts brand, by current chairman D.H. Ike, Tseng. Merida has expanded to the US and Europe and is now a global player in bicycle...
  
   - Taiwan
• Merlin
  Merlin (bicycles)
  Merlin Metalworks Inc. is a manufacturer of bicycles, specializing in custom titanium hand built models.-History:The company was founded by Gwyn Jones, Gary Helfrich, and Mike Augspurger in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1986 to manufacture bicycle frames and racing wheelchairs constructed from...
  
   - USA
• Merckx
  Eddy Merckx
  Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx , better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional cyclist. The French magazine Vélo called him "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known." The American publication, VeloNews, called him the greatest and most successful cyclist of all...
  
   - Belgium
• Miele bicycles
  Miele bicycles
  Miele is a bicycle manufacturing division of Procycle Group Inc. of Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada.Miele bicycles were originally manufactured by the Guvin Company beginning in 1982 in Mississauga, Ontario. The company was founded by Jim Miele and several family partners. Miele had immigrated from...
  
   - Canada
• Milwaukee Bicycle Co.
  Milwaukee Bicycle Co.
  The Milwaukee Bicycle Co. is brand of bicycle and bicycle parts. It is the house brand of Ben's Cycle and Fitness, a family-owned bicycle shop in the Lincoln Village neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin....
  
   - USA
• Minerva - Belgium (defunct)
• Miyata
  Miyata
  Miyata is a Japanese bicycle and unicycle manufacturer that has been in operation since 1892.Miyata claims to have been the first Japanese manufacturer of flash-butt welded frame tubes and the first to use electrostatic painting ....
  
   - Japan
• Monark
  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....
  
   - Sweden/Brazil/Peru
• Mondia
  Mondia
  Mondia was one of the most successful Swiss bicycle manufacturers. The origins of the company date back to 1918, although bicycle production did not begin until 1933. Shortly after, in 1936, Mondia sponsored a racing team for the Tour of Switzerland which was won by a Mondia rider.While now out of...
  
   - Switzerland
• Mongoose
  Mongoose (bicycles)
  Mongoose is a brand name of performance bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and sold by BMX Products, Inc. Mongoose merged in 2001 with Pacific Cycle, a subsidiary of Dorel Industries. It produces several models of BMX, mountain bikes, and street bicycles, making ample use of light weight...
  
   - USA
• Montague - USA
• Moots Cycles
  Moots Cycles
  Moots Cycles is an American bicycle manufacturer located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Founded in 1981 by Kent Eriksen, 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.- History :Originally,...
  
   - CO, USA
• Moser Cicli
  Moser Cicli
  Francesco Moser began building racing bicycles after his retirement, as did many Italian bicycle racers, in a small workshop in Trento, Italy. Production is 2,000-3,000 frames annually....
  
   - Italy
• Motobécane
  Motobécane
  Motobécane was a French manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and other small vehicles, established in 1923. "Motobécane" is a compound of "moto", slang for motorcycle; "bécane" is slang for "bike."...
  
   - France
• Moulton
  Moulton Bicycle
  Moulton is an English bicycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1962 by Dr Alex Moulton, who designed the "Hydrolastic" and rubber cone suspension systems for the BMC Mini motorcar, and the later "Hydragas" system used by its successor companies....
  
   - UK
• Murray
  Murray (bicycles)
  Murray was an American company whose assets are now owned by Briggs & Stratton and Dorel Industries. The corporate brand is a descendant of the Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company, which manufactured bicycles and lawn and garden equipment ....
  
   - USA
• Muddy Fox
  Muddy Fox
  Muddy Fox is a bicycle manufacturer from Basildon, Essex, specialising in mountain bikes and other flatbar bicycles. The company produced BMX bikes in the 1980s before the slump later on forced them to switch to mountain bike production, which they have continued ever since...
  
   - UK (other brand: Silver Fox)

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• National
  National (brand)
  National was a brand used by Panasonic Corporation to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances and was the first name used by Konosuke Matsushita's electric firm to sell his battery-powered bicycle lamps, hoping that they would be a product used by all of Japan, hence...
  
   - Japan
• Neil Pryde
  Neil Pryde
  NeilPryde Ltd. is a Hong Kong based Sports Group composed of three key business platforms - manufacturing, distribution and brand management....
  
   - Hong Kong
• Neobike
  Neobike
  Neobike is a company and brand of folding bicycles, made in Taiwan. The company manufactures copies of folding bicycle designs, including those originally created by Brompton Bicycle and Dahon...
  
   - Taiwan
• NEXT
  Next (bicycle company)
  Next is an American bicycle brand owned by Dynacraft BSC. Next bikes are produced in China and are sold in the American retail stores Wal-Mart.-Models:Next offers kids, BMX, and mountain bikes.18"* Misty - girls 6-9 years old...
  
   - USA
• Nishiki
  Nishiki (bicycle)
  Nishiki was a brand of bicycles designed, specified, marketed and distributed by West Coast Cycle in the United States, initially manufactured by Kawamura Cyles in Kobe, Japan and subsequently by Giant of Taiwan. The bicycles were first marketed under the American Eagle brand beginning in 1965 and...
  
   - U.S. brand
• Norco
  Norco Performance Bikes
  Norco Bikes is a bicycle manufacturer founded in 1964 and currently headquartered in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Norco designs and distributes more than 140 bike models to more than 21 countries.-History:...
  
   - Canada
• Norman Cycles
  Norman Cycles
  Norman Cycles was a British bicycle, autocycle, moped, and motorcycle manufacturer based in Ashford, Kent, England.The company and its products are remembered today by the Norman Cycles Club which is based at Willesborough Windmill, in Willesborough, Ashford...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Novara
  Novara (bicycles)
  Novara is the private label brand of bicycles and bicycle accessories sold by the American consumers’ cooperative REI. The brand was introduced in 1983...
  
   - USA
• NSU - Germany
• Nymanbolagen
  Nymanbolagen
  Nymanbolagen was a Swedish bicycle, moped, and motorcycle manufacturing company in Uppsala, Sweden.In 1947 Nymans Verkstäder in Uppsala, Lindblads Verkstäder in Stockholm and some minor bicycle companies, formed Nymanbolagen AB, situated in Uppsala, Sweden.Nymans also manufactured small two cycle...
  
   - Sweden

O

• Opel
  Opel
  Adam Opel AG, generally shortened to Opel, is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862. Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an Aktiengesellschaft in 1929...
  
   - Germany (no longer makes bicycles)
• Orange
  Orange (bicycles)
  Orange is a bicycle manufacturer, based in Halifax, West Yorkshire in the UK. Orange produce a wide range of mountain bikes, ranging from the full-suspension downhill 224 to the steel hardtail P7. Orange's original hardtail was the Clockwork, named after the film...
  
   - UK
• Orbea - Spain
• Orient Bikes
  Orient Bikes
  Orient Bikes is a Greek manufacturer of bicycles located in Larissa, established in 1945. The company has an annual production of 64000 bicycles and its models cover a wide range of designs and uses....
  
   - Greece

P

• Pacific Cycle
  Pacific Cycle
  For the Taiwan-based folding bicycle company see: Pacific CyclesPacific Cycle, Inc. is an American bicycle importer and distributor founded in 1977 by Chris Hornung. The company owns the following brands; Schwinn, Mongoose, Roadmaster DYNO , InSTEP, Pacific Outdoors, Powerlite and Cannondale....
  
   - USA, was acquired by Dorel Industries
  Dorel Industries
  Dorel Industries Inc. is a Canadian company, based in Montreal, Quebec, which designs and manufactures for three areas: juvenile, home furnishings and recreational/leisure. It was formed in 1987 as a result of a merger between Dorel Co. Ltd., founded in 1962 by Leo Schwartz and Ridgewood...
  
   in 2004. Owns GT
  GT Bicycles
  GT Bicycles is a large American manufacturer of road, mountain, and bmxbicycles. The company was founded in 1979 by Gary Turner, a welding engineer and Richard Long, a bike shop owner. The company merged with Schwinn in 1998, but the conglomerate went bankrupt in 2001, and was acquired by Pacific...
  
  , Mongoose
  Mongoose (bicycles)
  Mongoose is a brand name of performance bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and sold by BMX Products, Inc. Mongoose merged in 2001 with Pacific Cycle, a subsidiary of Dorel Industries. It produces several models of BMX, mountain bikes, and street bicycles, making ample use of light weight...
  
  , Murray
  Murray (bicycles)
  Murray was an American company whose assets are now owned by Briggs & Stratton and Dorel Industries. The corporate brand is a descendant of the Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company, which manufactured bicycles and lawn and garden equipment ....
  
  , Roadmaster, and Schwinn brands
• Pacific Cycles
  Pacific Cycles
  For the American bicycle import company see: Pacific CyclePacific Cycles is a Taiwan bicycle manufacturing company based in Hsin Wu, Taoyuan, Taiwan...
  
   - ROC
  Republic of China
  The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
  
  , owns Birdy
  Birdy (bicycle)
  The Birdy is a folding bicycle designed by Riese und Müller and produced by Pacific Cycles. As of 2010 over 100,000 had been sold.Released in 1995, it was the first fully suspended folding bike. The ride is regarded by some as more sporty than the Brompton, thanks in part to a stiff single-piece...
  
  ,
• Panasonic
  Panasonic
  Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...
  
   - Japan
• Pashley Cycles
  Pashley Cycles
  Pashley Cycles is an English bicycle manufacturer in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England, established in 1926. The company has been making bicycles for more than 80 years.-History:...
  
   - UK
• Patria
  Patria
  Patria may refer to:* Homeland * Patria, a cycle of theatrical works by composer R. Murray Schafer* Patria AMV * Patria , of Finland...
  
   - Germany
• Pedersen bicycle
  Pedersen bicycle
  The Pedersen bicycle, also called the Dursley Pedersen bicycle is a bicycle that was developed by Danish inventor Mikael Pedersen and produced in the English town of Dursley. Though never hugely popular, they enjoy a devoted following and are still produced today...
  
   - UK
• Peugeot
  Cycles Peugeot
  Peugeot was a manufacturer in the French bicycle industry through the 20th century.-History:Peugeot was a French manufacturer of bicycles founded by Jean Pequignot Peugeot who, in the 19th century, made water mills...
  
   - France
• Phillips Cycles
  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 of the Tube Investments group. For a number of years, the...
  
   - UK
• Pierce Cycle Company
  Pierce-Arrow
  Pierce-Arrow was an American automobile manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was active from 1901-1938. Although best known for its expensive luxury cars, Pierce-Arrow also manufactured commercial trucks, fire trucks, camp trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles.-Early history:The forerunner...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Pinarello
  Pinarello
  Cicli Pinarello S.p.A. is an Italian bicycle manufacturer in Treviso, Italy. It supplies mostly hand-made bicycles for road racing, track racing and cyclo-cross.-Models:-Montello SLX:...
  
   - Italy
• Planet X
  Planet X (bike)
  Planet X is a bicycle company based in Rotherham, in the north of England. It was founded by Dave Loughran from Sheffield. Planet X produces road and time-trial bikes using alloy and composites. It was founded in the 1990s to produce dirt, jump and trials bikes...
  
   - UK
• Pocket Bicycles
  Pocket Bicycles
  Pocket Bicycles was the name of a manufacturer of portable bicycles located in Massachusetts in the 1970s. While resembling many of the small-wheel folding designs of the time, the bicycle was distinctive in having no down tube, merely a cable that was kept under tension by the weight of the rider,...
  
   - USA
• Pogliaghi
  Pogliaghi
  Pogliaghi was an Italian racing bicycle manufacturer, based in Milan, Italy.The company was founded by Sante Pogliaghi in 1947. Pogliaghi did much of the work, but had up to six staff by the late 1970s, when production increased from 300 frames a year to 800. Cyclists such as Patrick Sercu and...
  
   - Italy
• Pope Manufacturing Company
  Pope Manufacturing Company
  Pope Manufacturing Company was founded by Albert Augustus Pope in Hartford, Connecticut. The company began with the introduction of the "Columbia High Wheeler" bicycle in 1878.-History:...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Premier
  Premier Motorcycles
  Premier Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer. Originally founded as a bicycle manufacturer by W. H. Herbert and William Hillman in 1876, the "Hillman and Herbert Cycle Company" was renamed the "Premier Cycle Co." in 1891 and their first motorcycle was produced in 1908, with a White &...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Procycle Group
  Procycle Group
  Procycle Group is the most important Canadian manufacturer of cycling products. Procycle is based in St-Georges, Beauce, Quebec, Canada and have offices also in Montréal, Vancouver and Shanghai. Procycle owns the Rocky Mountain Bicycles and Miele brands. They also support the Pro Cycle Vélociste...
  
   - Canada, owns the Rocky Mountain Bicycles, Miele
  Miele bicycles
  Miele is a bicycle manufacturing division of Procycle Group Inc. of Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada.Miele bicycles were originally manufactured by the Guvin Company beginning in 1982 in Mississauga, Ontario. The company was founded by Jim Miele and several family partners. Miele had immigrated from...
  
  , also owns but not longer produces the Oryx, Mikado, VeloSport, Balfa, CCM
  CCM (cycle)
  CCM, formerly an initialism for Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. The company would eventually split into two separate entities both maintaining the CCM trademark, one maintaining bicycle manufacturing and the other, CCM , producing hockey equipment.-History:The formation of C.C.M...
  
  , Peugeot
  Cycles Peugeot
  Peugeot was a manufacturer in the French bicycle industry through the 20th century.-History:Peugeot was a French manufacturer of bicycles founded by Jean Pequignot Peugeot who, in the 19th century, made water mills...
  
   brands.
• Prophete
  Prophete
  Prophete GmbH u. Co. KG is a German bicycle manufacturer that traditionally trades under the Prophete brand name. The company started out in 1908 as a bicycle workshop based in Halle an der Saale, but at the end of World War II the Prophete family moved the company to Rheda-Wiedenbrück in West...
  
   - Germany
• Puch
  Puch
  Puch is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.-Pre 1919:...
  
   - Austria

Q

• Quadrant Cycle Company - UK (defunct)
• Quality
  Quality Bicycle Products
  Quality Bicycle Products is the largest 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 manufactures several brands of its own...
  
   - USA and Taiwan
• Quintana Roo
  Quintana Roo (company)
  Quintana Roo is a company that produces products for triathlon, primarily bicycles and wetsuits. The company was founded in 1987 by Dan Empfield of Ironman fame and is owned by the American Bicycle Group, LLC...
  
   - USA

R

• Raleigh - UK
• Rambler
  Rambler (bicycle)
  The Rambler is an American bicycle brand manufactured by the Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co., in Chicago from 1878 to 1900. This bicycle brand was created by Thomas B. Jeffery and was the predecessor to Jeffery's Rambler automobile....
  
   - USA (defunct), made by Gormully & Jeffery
  Gormully & Jeffery
  Gormully & Jeffery was an American bicycle company, founded in Chicago by Thomas B. Jeffery and R. Phillip Gormully in 1878. It marketed bicycles under the Rambler brand, was at one time the second largest bicycle manufacturer in the US, and was sold to the American Bicycle Company in 1900....
  
  
• Rans Designs - USA
• Razor - USA
• Ridgeback
  Ridgeback (bicycles)
  Ridgeback is a brand of cycles under the Madison Brand which in turn is part of the H. Young group of companies. Madison, based in Stanmore, London, also owns the Genesis and Saracen brands of cycles....
  
   - UK
• Ridley
  Ridley (bicycles)
  Ridley Bikes was started by the innovative spirit of one man, Jochim Aerts, a highly skilled frame builder and painter who began in 1990 producing frames for Belgian bicycle companies. Jochim’s passion for road racing and frame craftsmanship was soon channeled into his own brand in 1997 when Ridley...
  
   - Belgium
• Riese und Müller
  Riese und Müller
  Riese and Müller is a bicycle firm 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...
  
   - Germany
• Riley Cycle Company - UK (defunct)
• Rivendell Bicycle Works
  Rivendell Bicycle Works
  Rivendell Bicycle Works is a producer of lugged steel bicycle frames, located in Walnut Creek, California, United States. Rivendell produces stock and customized frames. Rivendell frames are designed in the U.S., with manufacturing of stock frames in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan...
  
   - USA
• Roadmaster
  Roadmaster (bicycles)
  Roadmaster is an American bicycle brand currently owned by Pacific Cycle, who in turn is owned by Dorel Industries of Canada.-History:In 1936 Roadmaster Bicycles are first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company...
  
   - USA
• Roberts Cycles
  Roberts Cycles
  Roberts Cycles is a bicycle manufacturer in Selhurst near Croydon, South London. It is the last custom framebuilder in London.Beginning soon after World War II, Charlie Roberts started as a frame-builder for Holdsworth, Claud Butler and Freddie Grubb....
  
   - UK
• Robin Hood
  Robin Hood (bicycles)
  Robin Hood bicycles is an English manufacturer. Made in Nottingham by the Raleigh Bicycle Company many of whose bicycles were imported into the United States. Best known for their three speeds they were an economy line for Raleigh. They also imported Racing bikes as the Lenton Sports....
  
   - UK
• Rocky Mountain Bicycles - Canada
• Ross
  Ross (bicycles)
  Ross was a U.S. built line of bikes between 1950 and 1989, somewhat rivaling Schwinn, up until the mid 1980s. They were manufactured in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and had corporate headquarters in Rockaway Beach, New York....
  
   - USA
• Rover Company - UK
• Rowbike
  Rowbike
  A rowbike is an example of a rowing cycle, hybrid fitness/transport machine that combines a bicycle, generally considered a recumbent bicycle, and a rowing machine. "Rowbike" is a trademark of the RowBike company. The RowBike company was founded by Scott Olson, the inventor of Rollerblade inline...
  
   - USA
• Rudge-Whitworth - UK

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• Samchuly
  Samchuly
  Samchuly, is a leading bicycle company and is 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 per year...
  
   - Korea
• Santana Cycles
  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...
  
   - USA (only makes tandem bicycles)
• Saracen Cycles
  Saracen Cycles
  Saracen Cycles are a brand of bicycle made and sold in the United Kingdom. Based in Warwick, England, the company manufactures a variety of road and sport bicycles...
  
   - UK
• Scania - Sweden (no longer makes bicycles)
• Schwinn Bicycle Company
  Schwinn Bicycle Company
  The Schwinn Bicycle Company was founded by German-born mechanical engineer Ignaz Schwinn in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manufacturer of American bicycles through most of the 20th century and today it is a sub-brand of Pacific Cycle, owned by the multi-national conglomerate, Dorel...
  
   - USA
• SCOTT Sports - Switzerland
• Serotta
  Serotta
  Serotta is an American bicycle builder located in Saratoga Springs, New York. Named for founder Ben Serotta, the company has been making custom road and competition bicycles since the 1970s....
  
   - USA
• Seven Cycles
  Seven Cycles
  Seven Cycles is an American bicycle designer and manufacturer based in Watertown, Massachusetts. Seven, America's number one custom bicycle brand, was founded by Robert Vandermark in early 1997. Vandermark was the former head of research and development at Merlin Metalworks...
  
   - USA
• Shelby Cycle Company
  Shelby Cycle Company
  The Shelby Cycle Company manufactured bicycles in Shelby, Ohio from the 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 responsible for the Donald Duck bicycles in the...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Simson
  Simson
  Simson was a German company which produced firearms, automobiles, motorcycles, and mopeds. Under Nazi rule, the factory was seized from the Jewish Simson family, and was renamed several times under Nazi and later Communist control. The Simson name was reintroduced as a brand name for mopeds made at...
  
   - Germany (acquired by Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
  Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
  Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau , usually abbreviated as IFA, was a conglomerate and a union of companies for vehicle construction in the former East Germany ....
  
  , now defunct)
• Sinclair Research - UK
• Singer - UK (defunct)
• Solé Bicycle Co.
  Solé Bicycle Co.
  Solé Bicycle Company was founded in 2010, by University of Southern California students, Jonathan Ross Shriftman and Jacob Medwell. Solé is a manufacturer and dealer of fixed gear/single speed bicycles...
  
   - USA
• Solex - France (defunct)
• Somec
  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...
  
   - Italy
• Sparta B.V. - Dutch
• Specialized
  Specialized Bicycle Components
  Specialized Bicycle Components, more commonly known simply as Specialized, is a major American brand of bicycles and related products. It was founded in 1974 by Mike Sinyard and is based in Morgan Hill, California-History:...
  
   - USA
• Speedwell bicycles
  Speedwell bicycles
  Speedwell was a brand of bicycle manufactured by Bennett & Wood, a firm established by Mr. Charles W. Bennett and Mr. Charles R. Wood in 1882 in Sydney, Australia. As motorcars and motorcycles became available Bennett and Wood entered the motor trade. They built and sold the Speedwell bicycle and...
  
   - Australia (defunct)
• Stearns
  E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency
  E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency was established in 1893 by industrialist, Edward C. Stearns who began business as a hardware manufacturer and branched into bicycle production from 1893 through 1899.Stearns manufactured the popular model, Yellow Fellow by 1895...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Stelber Cycle Corp
  Stelber Cycle Corp
  Stelber Cycle Corp was a manufacturer 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 George Barris under the Iverson brand name. The...
  
   - USA
• Stella
  Stella (bicycles)
  Stella was a French bicycle manufacturer founded in 1909. The company sponsored Louison Bobet, a French professional cyclist. Bobet won the Tour de France in 1953 and 1954 while riding Stella bicycles....
  
   - France
• Sterling Bicycle Co.
  Sterling Bicycle Co.
  Sterling Bicycle Co. was a 19th-century American bicycle company first based in Chicago, Illinois before relocating to Kenosha, Wisconsin.-History:...
  
   - USA
• Strida
  Strida
  Strida is a portable, belt-driven, folding bicycle with a distinctive 'A'-shaped collapsible frame, designed by UK engineer and designer Mark Sanders...
  
   - UK
• Sun Cycle & Fittings Co.
  Sun (motorcycle)
  The Sun Cycle & Fittings Co. Ltd. was an English manufacturer of motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles. The company was based in Aston, Birmingham.The company was founded as James Parkes & Son, a brass foundry producing lamp fittings and various other products...
  
   - UK (defunct)
• Sunbeam - UK (defunct)
• Surly Bikes
  Surly Bikes
  Surly Bikes is a designer and importer of bicycles, frames, parts, and accessories based in Bloomington, Minnesota, established circa 1998. Surly is owned by and shares facilities with Quality Bicycle Products ....
  
   - USA
• Suzuki
  Suzuki
  is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...
  
   - Japan

T

• Terrot
  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 bicycles to its products.In 1902 the Dijon factory made...
  
   - France (defunct)
• Thomas
  Thomas Motor Company
  E. R. Thomas Motor Company was a manufacturer of motorized bicycles, motorized tricycles, motorcycles, and automobiles in Buffalo, New York between 1900 and 1919.-Motorized Bicycles, Tricycles, and Motorcycles:...
  
   - USA (defunct)
• Thorn Cycles
  Thorn Cycles
  Thorn Cycles is a British manufacturer of bicycles based in Bridgwater, Somerset. They specialise in tandems, touring and randonneuring cycles.They have recently become well known for their Raven series of cycles equipped with Rohloff hub gears...
  
   - UK
• Time
  Time (bicycles)
  TIME Sport International is a French manufacturer of bicycles and cycling equipment, including bicycle frames, cycling shoes, clipless bicycle pedals, cranksets, and gloves.-History:...
  
   - France
• TI Cycles of India
  TI Cycles of India
  TI Cycles of India is a bicycle manufacturer based in India. Established in 1949 by the Murugappa Group and Sir Ivan Stedeford of Tube Investments Group in UK, TI Cycles is the maker of brands like Hercules, BSA and Philips cycles. It has manufacturing plants at Ambattur near Chennai, Nasik in...
  
   - India, owns brands Hercules
  Hercules Cycle and Motor Company
  For the German Bicycle and Motorcycle manufacturer see: Hercules Fahrrad GmbH & CoThe Hercules Cycle and Motor Company Limited was a British bicycle manufacturer founded on 9 September 1910 in Aston in England....
  
  , BSA
  Birmingham Small Arms Company
  This article is not about Gamo subsidiary BSA Guns Limited of Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B11 2PP or BSA Company or its successors....
  
  
• Torker
  Torker
  Torker is a brand of bicycles and unicycles currently owned by Seattle Bike Supply, headquartered in Kent, Washington.-History:The Torker name was created by Johnson Engineering in Fullerton, CA in 1977 for a BMX bike frame....
  
   - USA
• Trek Bicycle Corporation
  Trek Bicycle Corporation
  Trek Bicycle Corporation is a major bicycle and cycling product manufacturer and distributor under brand names Trek, Gary Fisher, Bontrager, Klein and until recently, LeMond Racing Cycles...
  
   - USA, also Klein Bikes, LeMond Racing Cycles
  LeMond Racing Cycles
  LeMond Racing Cycles is a bicycle manufacturer originally founded by Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France . LeMond offered a geometry based on the racing frames he used in competition, which had a longer top tube and wheelbase in an otherwise traditional lightweight steel frame...
  
   (both discontinued) and Gary Fisher Bikes
  Gary Fisher
  Gary Christopher Fisher is considered one of the inventors of the modern mountain bike.Fisher started competing in road and track races at 12. He was suspended in 1968 because race organizers cited a rule that his hair was too long. By 1972 this rule had been repealed and Fisher's career continued...
  
  
• Triumph Cycle
  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 Nuremberg, part of the German Empire. In 1885, aged 20 years,...
  
   - UK
• Triumph (TWN)
  Triumph (TWN)
  Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG or TWN, was 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, Germany, under the same Triumph name...
  
   - Germany
• Tunturi
  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 the Harkke brothers set up a small bike shop in Turku, Finland. The name Tunturi comes from the Finnish word for a fell...
  
   - Finland
• Turner Suspension Bicycles
  Turner Suspension Bicycles
  Turner Suspension Bicycles, Inc is an American bicycle frame manufacturer, based in Murrieta, California, specializing in full suspension mountain bikes. Turner Bikes was founded in 1994 by David Turner, a former professional mountain bike rider who had ridden for amongst others, the Marin and...
  
   - USA

V

• Valdora
  Valdora
  Valdora is an American bicycle manufacture based in Tempe, Arizona. They engineer all of their bikes specifically for triathletes....
  
   - USA
• Velomotors
  Velomotors
  Velomotors is a Russian manufacturer of bicycles, motorscooters, and small all-terrain vehicles . Velomotors produces the Stels brand of bicycles and motorscooters. In 2009 the company entered into a manufacturing arrangement with the Asian companies Buyang, Kazuma, and Dinli.-Ownership:The...
  
   - Russia
• VéloSoleX
  VéloSoleX
  VéloSoleX is a moped, or motorised bicycle, which was originally produced by the French manufacturer Solex, based in Paris, France. The company manufactured centrifugal radiators, carburetors, and micrometers, before branching into assist motors and bicycles...
  
   - France (Velosolex America markets the VELOSOLEX worldwide.)
• Velo Vie
  Velo Vie
  Velo Vie is an Arizona-based manufacturer and marketer of racing bicycles direct to consumers through its online marketplace. Velo Vie offers customizable bicycle frames featuring Velo Vie Carbon Axis technology...
  
   - USA
• Victoria
  Victoria (motorcycle)
  Victoria was a bicycle manufacturer in Nürnberg, Germany that made motorcycles from about 1901 until 1966. It should not be confused with a lesser-known, unrelated Victoria Motorcycle Company in Glasgow, Scotland that made motorcycles between 1902 and 1928....
  
   - Germany
• Villy Customs
  Villy Customs
  Villy Customs is an American lifestyle brand specializing in custom designed beach cruiser bicycles for adults. Based in Dallas, the company was founded and is privately owned by entrepreneur Fleetwood Hicks, a former menswear fashion designer and health enthusiast, and it was chosen by...
  
   - USA
• Vitus
  Vitus (bicycles)
  Vitus is a French bicycle manufacturer best known for its steel cycle frame tubing, and its frames built with aluminium tubes joined to aluminium lugs by bonding - a construction method the company pioneered in the late 1970s . Compared to modern aluminium bicycle frames, early Vitus aluminium...
  
   - France

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• Wanderer
  Wanderer (car)
  Wanderer was a German manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, vans and other machinery. Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896, the company used the Wanderer brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.-History:Winklhofer &...
  
   - Germany (defunct)
• Waterford Precision Cycles
  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, that range in price from about $2,500 to $8,500...
  
   - USA, owns Gunnar
• WeThePeople
  WeThePeople
  wethepeople is a designer of BMX bicycles and bmx parts from Cologne, Germany. It sells complete bicycles as well as frames and parts. It is owned by former riders Klaus Dyba and Harry Schmid who took over the full rights to the company in 2000....
  
   - Germany
• Wilderness
  Wilderness Trail Bikes
  Wilderness Trail Bikes is a privately owned company based in Marin County, California, USA. Founded in 1983 as a company that specialized in mountain bicycle parts, today WTB sources and sells its product worldwide supplying bike manufacturers and bike shops with bike components such as tires,...
  
   - USA
• Wilier Triestina
  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....
  
   - Italy
• Witcomb Cycles
  Witcomb Cycles
  Witcomb Cycles, formerly known as Witcomb Lightweight Cycles, is the trading name of the Witcomb Trading Company. It was a British company based in Deptford, south London specialising in custom handmade steel bicycle frames. The company was founded in 1949 by Ernie Witcomb and his wife Lily. The...
  
   - UK
• Worksman Cycles
  Worksman Cycles
  Worksman Cycles is an American manufacturer of bicycles and tricycles for industrial, commercial and recreational use. The company was founded in 1898 and is located in Ozone Park in the borough of Queens in New York City...
  
   - USA, owns Atlantic Coast Cruiser brand.
• Wright Cycle Company
  Wright Cycle Company
  The bicycle business of the Wright brothers, the Wright Cycle Company occupied five different locations in Dayton, Ohio. Orville and Wilbur Wright began their bicycle repair business in 1892, and soon added rentals and sales. In 1896 they began manufacturing and selling bicycles of their own...
  
  - USA (defunct)

External links

• List at bike-fiteline.com (German)
• List at Bicycle.net
• List at Bikesutra.com
• Framebuilder Lists at S and S Machine
• Recumbent Bicycle Manufacturers
• Complete (almost) LISTING OF EVERY Complete BIKE BRAND
• Where was my bike made? article at BikePedaler.com
• Chart of US Bicycle Companies manufacturers and suppliers