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about us

For us mountain biking is all about adventure, nature, exploring your limits and feeling one with your bike. Therefore we build bikes that are all about balance, precision, power and natural ride feel.

adventure

We build mountain bikes that make you want to go out into nature. Leave the cities behind, push your limits, have adventures, and experience the symbiosis between man and machine.

Our bikes are typically designed to ride technical, challenging natural trails. Powerful, balanced, with a natural ride feel and precise handling

Although the bikes are designed as high-performance mountain bikes, riders new to the sport will value the forgiving and confidence inspiring nature.

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kodiak

During the years 2020 and 2021 we developed, shaped and simulated many bike concepts and tested the gearbox drivetrain, suspension and geometry with prototypes.

After successfully testing multiple carbon prototypes on the rocky trails of Croatia and in multiple enduro races, we started small scale in-house production.

Today we build and sell the Kodiak in 4 different models and many configurations.

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independent

We do not work with bank loans or investors and are not part of a large group, but are truly independent. Most of what we earn is going back into the company to keep developing and grow slowly.

design

We design and develop our bikes in The Netherlands, where we have our team of bike designers and highly skilled engineers. This is also the location where we build prototypes and small series of bikes.

We have almost 20 years of experience in development of highly complex products, many of them bikes and ebikes. We develop concepts, design kinematics, run simulations, use advanced 3D CAD programs to develop our frames and build prototypes.

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test locations

For extensive performance testing we use locations in Croatia. If frames and components survive the extremely rocky and technical natural trails there, they will pretty much survive anything.

We ride prototypes on Alpine trails in Jamnica in Slovenia and on the trails of UCI Premantura, UCI Kamenjak and Rabac in Croatia.

production

We assemble our bikes in-house. Every bike is different and hand made. We receive the carbon parts as raw parts and have the CNC milling of all aluminium parts done. The bikes are one by one coated in the Netherlands and after thorough quality checks we start the assembly of the frames and complete bikes.