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Paul Brodie started Brodie Research and Technology in 1986, after leaving his frame building position with Rocky Mountain Bicycles, manufacturing custom steel hardtail mountain bikes. [1] As the designer and builder of the first Vancouver trademark sloping-top-tube, he took the design on to develop what would become the modern mountain bike.
The first Merlin frame was a mountain bike frame custom-built for the defending National Mountain Bike Champion Joe Murray. [2] In the following year, the company began a strong relationship with frame designer Tom Kellogg, who helped them produce the world's first 3-2.5 titanium alloy road bicycle frame. [2]
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 (Kinesis USA, Inc.) in Portland, Oregon that generated $5-$10 million in annual sales until ceasing production and closing its doors in 2006. [1]
In 1993, Trek introduced its first OCLV Carbon mountain bike frames, the 9800 and the 9900, which at 2.84 lb (1.29 kg) was the world's lightest production mountain bike frame. In 1993, Trek also acquired Gary Fisher Mountain Bikes , named after Gary Fisher , one of the inventors of the mountain bike and one of the most popular names in off-road ...
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, [1] a former professional mountain bike rider who had ridden for the Marin and Mongoose teams. Turner had also worked with Horst Leitner at ...
In 1995, Storck began the design and manufacturing of aluminum frame bicycles in Portland, Oregon [7] with the assistance of Kinesis USA, a subsidiary of Kinesis Industry, and in 1996, Dutch mountain bicyclist Bart Brentjens won the gold medal at the first cross-country mountain bike race of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, on a ...