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who we are

We are a team of riders, designers and engineers, obsessed with high quality mountain bikes and 20 years of engineering experience. Our bikes stand out for their high-quality design, craftsmanship and exceptional ride quality.

ride quality

Our bikes are typically designed to ride rough natural trails. We create bikes that give confidence in all circumstances, that will challenge you and make you smile.

Our play grounds are the rocky trails of the Alps, Croatia and Slovenia where we test our bikes to the limits. Our bikes flatten the terrain smoothly but still let you feel exactly what’s happening. You are always fully in control.

Our bikes are designed as high-performance mountain bikes, but riders new to the sport 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.

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independent

We do not work with investors and are not part of a large group, we are truly independent. The money we make is going back into the company to push design and development of new bikes.

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 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.

built to order

We spend a lot of time on development and design. We design our bikes from the ground up, including kinematics, geometry, drive system integration and much more.

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.

no model years

It is quite normal in the bike industry to use model years. We do not do that. Our bikes keep their value, does not matter if they are build this year or a few years ago.

We innovate all the time. New upgrades will be available as parts, mostly with backwards compatibility. This helps to keep your bike up to the latest standard if you would want that.

made in Europe

Most of our production steps are done in Europe, we actually add about 65 percent of the production value in Europe. Many high-end components that we use on our bikes are made in Europe as well.

We build our bikes completely in-house with our own people. Only the raw carbon parts come from a premium carbon frame manufacturer in Asia.

We check the quality of all parts in-house, have the coating done in Europe and also do the full assembly our frames in house with our own quality system.