Since 1951
Eight decades on two wheels
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- 1951A garage behind the houseErika and Hans Lindner start repairing bicycles in a garage in Bremen. On Saturdays the queue reaches the street.
- 1956The first frame of our ownThe city bike is welded by hand, painted in one green and sold to the neighbors first.
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- 1964The touring bike Model 64Built for the coast road, with a rack that holds a full picnic. 4,000 leave the workshop in the first year.
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- 1972Into the old rope factoryThe company moves to the harbor, into a hall long enough to build a frame from start to finish on one line.
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- 1983The first aluminum frameLighter by a third, and the start of a long argument with the steel purists in the workshop.
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- 1991A second workshop in LeipzigTwelve mechanics from Leipzig join, and with them the best wheel builders the company has had.
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- 2004Bikes that carry thingsThe first cargo bike, built for a bakery that wanted to deliver without a van.
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- 2012Spare parts for 30 yearsEvery bike sold comes with the promise that its parts will be available for three decades.
- 2019An electric drive from BremenThe motor is designed in the old rope factory and can be repaired by any good workshop.
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- 202675 years and one million bikesThe millionth bike leaves the line in March. It goes to a bakery, of course.