Jo Beckendorff

EGÜES, Spain - Conor Sports S.A. is a bicycle supplier in the northern Spanish region of Navarra with roots in professional road racing. With a strong foothold in the domestic market the brand also offers city bikes at affordable prices. A growing export business is the next step for the brand.

ELCHE, Spain - The 12,000 square meter company headquarters of MTB brand Mondraker is an eye-catcher itself: the round shape inspired by a wheel is intended to reflect the brand image of the premium brand. In Elche in the province of Alicante, administration, R&D, engineering & design as well as production and assembly are all under one roof.

VALLVIDRERA, Spain - Together with industrial designer Nachos Suárez, US native David Álvarez launched Guava Bikes in Spain. With a new clubhouse just outside of Barcelona and a burgeoning community which includes sporting investors, the niche gravel bike is positioning itself for growth.

NUREMBERG, Germany - Following the sale of e-bike retail chain store M-Way from Swiss retail conglomerate Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund to Swiss E-Mobility Group AG (SEMG) in September 2019, the long-awaited move into Germany has now taken place. On 6 February the company celebrated the opening of its first M-Way store in Nuremberg.

ELCHE, Spain - Team Bike S.L. is not only one of the largest and most important bicycle product wholesalers and importers on the Spanish market, but also the entire Iberian peninsula. During a visit to the 3,000 square meter company headquartered in Elche, Bike Europe learned that it has much more to offer than the in-house SRAM Iberia Tech Center and being the former birthplace of the offroad premium brand Mondraker.

VILLARROBLEDO, Spain - "Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, ..." - this is the beginning of the novel 'Don Quixote de la Mancha' by Spanish poet Miguel de Cervantes. Bike Europe didn't go in search of Don Quixote in the autonomous region of Castilla-La Mancha. Instead in the small town of Villarrobledo, 200 km southeast of Madrid it was time to find out what the small, custom bike manufacturer Berria Bikes S.L. has to do with Switzerland.

VITORIA-GASTEIZ, Spain - Bike manufacturer BH Bikes Europe S.L is one of the traditional bicycle suppliers from the Basque Country. BH stands for 'Beistegui Hermanos', which translates to 'Beistegui brothers'. The company was founded in 1909 with the production of revolver guns. 14 years later, they began manufacturing bicycles. Today, the fourth generation of the family, Javier Beistegui, is at the helm.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden- For the bicycle industry 2023 has been a tough year with over-supply and full warehouses clashing with a dropping consumer demand. Taking a look at the 2023 financial results of Mips AB, GoPro Inc. and BikeBeat & Sports GmbH it becomes clear that last year has been indeed challenging. But the fourth quarter results seem to suggest there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

BIELEFELD, Germany - In the aftermath of the announced insolvency, no offers have been made for the Internetstores Group as a whole, an interim assessment of the insolvency proceedings has revealed. This raises concerns about the continuity of the brands under the Internetstores Group umbrella, potentially putting numerous jobs at risk.

BARCELONA, Spain - Unno S.L. (known as Unno Bikes) is a high-end MTB carbon manufactory created by Cero Design. Among others, this agency focuses on the two-wheeler sector combining "design, engineering, simulation, composites, prototyping and testing" under one roof.