Logo delle biciclette instinctiv
Logo delle biciclette instinctiv

chi siamo

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.

Come progettiamo il 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.

prodotto in Europa

La maggior parte delle nostre fasi di produzione avviene in Europa; in effetti, circa il 65% del valore aggiunto della produzione viene generato proprio in Europa. Anche molti dei componenti di alta gamma che usiamo sul nostro bikes sono prodotti in Europa.

Il nostro bikes lo costruiamo interamente in casa con il nostro personale. Solo i componenti grezzi del carbon provengono da un produttore asiatico di telai carbon di alta qualità.

Controlliamo la qualità di tutti i componenti direttamente in sede, facciamo eseguire il rivestimento in Europa e realizziamo anche l'assemblaggio completo dei nostri telai in sede, seguendo il nostro sistema di qualità.