Bicycle manufacturers in Germany
Manufacturers in Germany design custom-made bicycles and are constantly developing new solutions.
Bicycles are popular. They are environmentally friendly and biking is healthy. For some time now bicycles have also been back in vogues. Chic models are looked upon as status symbols, stand in display windows and in front of designer shops. People in Germany own more than 70 million bicycles; on the average, a cyclist pays about € 500 for his bike. But a German bicycle industry hardly exists any longer. Significant numbers of bicycles are produced almost exclusively abroad. The market leader is the Japanese company Shimano, well ahead of the American company Sram, which still maintains an R & D department in Schweinfurt, Bavaria, with 80 engineers. The only German manufacturer that still manufactures bicycle components on an industrial scale is Magura in Bad Urach, at the foot of the Swabian Alb.
The wheel is being repeatedly re-invented
When it comes to quality, the small German manufacturers are in demand. They are the developmental laboratory for products that will later be produced en masse, especially in the Far East. The manufacturers produce bicycles according to the requirements of individual customers and are constantly developing new solutions. Müsing in the Westerwald is a prime example. Customers laud its multi-variant configurator. Rohloff is one of those component manufacturers that use quality materials according to secret manufacturing methods. The bicycle hub produced by the North Hessian company is the worldwide leader. And the Koblenz manufacturer Canyon wins one prize after the other – for sport as well as design. The wheel is being repeatedly re-invented a bit in Germany.
