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who we are

We are a team of bike-loving designers and engineers. We build performance mountain bikes, for athletes, sporty riders and anyone who loves to push his or her limits. Capable, fast and extremely smooth.

performance

Our bikes are typically designed to ride fast, technical trails. We love bikes that give confidence in all circumstances, that will challenge you and make you smile. Our play grounds are the rocky trails of Croatia and Slovenia and our athlete test riders ride mostly in Spain and Switzerland.

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

PUMA

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.

ocelot

independent

We do not work with investors and are not part of a large group, but are truly independent. Most of the money we make is going back into the company to keep innovation going.

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.

how we design our bikes

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.