Welcome to the Yellow Jersey brand page on singletrackworld.com For over a decade, Yellow Jersey Insurance has been the trusted name in specialist cycling insurance. Created by cyclists, for cyclists, they understand the investment and passion that comes with life on two wheels. Yellow Jersey…
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Crank Brothers
Welcome to the Crank Brothers brand page on singletrackworld.com Crank Brothers was founded in the year 2001 in the United Kingdom by two business partners: Martin Hoddinott and Hugh Hunter. Both men are avid mountain bikers themselves and had noticed a gap in the market…
Specialized Bikes
Welcome to the Specialized Bikes brand page on singletrackworld.com Founded by Mike Sinyard in 1974, Specialized is based in Morgan Hill, California. The company began as a custom bicycle frame shop, with one employee making just one bike per week. By 1980, the business had…
Focus Bikes
Welcome to the Focus Bikes brand page on singletrackworld.com Focus wasfounded by three-time cyclocross World Champion Mike Kluge in 1991, and originally specialised in mountain bikes. It later expanded its range to include touring bikes, moved into the road market in 2003 and has developed…
Cane Creek
Welcome to the Cane Creek brand page on singletrackworld.com Cane Creek Cycling Components, Inc. was founded in 1993 by Tim Jorgenson as a custom builder shop in Ketchum, Idaho. Using a small garage a few miles from town, he wrote his own company history by…
Geometron
Welcome to the Geometron Bikes brand page on singletrackworld.com GeoMetron Bikes is a rider-owned, independent bike company based in Monmouth, South Wales. Born from a desire to push the boundaries and question the status quo on geometry and suspension kinematics. Chris Porter has long been…
Shimano
Welcome to the Shimano brand page on singletrackworld.com The Shimano Bicycle Company is a Japanese manufacturer of cycling components, founded in 1921 by Shozaburo Shimano.It was established in Tokyo as a drop forging plant for bicycle parts, initially manufacturing steel rims and later hubs for…
GT Bicycles
Welcome to the GT Bicycles brand page on singletrackworld.com GT Bicycles company is founded on December 27, 1987 by three former team mates at the U.S. Cycling Federation, Gary Turner, Mike Fraysse and Gary Klein. In collaboration with aerospace giant Boeing, they developed a bicycle…
Santa Cruz
Welcome to the Santa Cruz brand page on singletrackworld.com Santa Cruz Bicycles was founded by Rob Roskopp, Mike Marquez and Rich Novak in 1993. Roskopp had spent many years as a professional skateboarder, and Novak’s Santa Cruz Skateboards company had put out a special “Roskopp”…
Kona
Welcome to the Kona Bike brand page on singletrackworld.com Kona Bikes was founded in 1988 by Dan Gerhard and Jacob Heilbron in Vancouver. Their headquarters is in Ferndale, Washington, with Canadian distribution offices in Vancouver, and European distribution offices in Monaco. On January 19, 2022,…
RockShox
Welcome to the RockShox brand page on singletrackworld.com Iconic suspension brand RockShox is part of the SRAM stable of component companies. Interesting Singletrack fact is that the company was sold to SRAM over a phone call made by Paul Turner, one of the original founders, while in…
Marzocchi
Welcome to the Marzocchi brand page on singletrackworld.com Founded in 1945 by Giuseppe Marzocchi in Florence, the brand has ridden the ups and downs of mountain bike suspension for 25 years. The Italian company is a small player among giants like Fox & RockShox and,…
Giant
Welcome to the Giant Bicycles brand page on singletrackworld.com Giant Bicycles is a publicly traded company (TWSE: 9921) and is one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in the world. Founded in Daija, Taichung in 1972 by King Liu the current production output is around 6.6 million…
Cotic
Welcome to the Cotic brand page on singletrackworld.com Cotic is based in Calver in Derbyshire, in the UK and specialise in bikes made from steel. Many of their bikes are handmade in the UK and depending on the model are built in small batches by…
Canyon
In 2001 Canyon Bikes was formed after a company name change from Radsport Arnold’ GmbH. Canyon is now one of the largest direct to consumer bike brands globally. Check out our Canyon story highlights
Fox Suspension
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