Since 1951

Seventy-five years of Lindner Cycles

From a garage in Bremen to a million bikes. The years that made us, told by the people who were there.

1951–1971

From a garage to a workshop

Twenty years of repairing, then building, then building more than the street could buy.

  1. 1951

    A garage behind the house

    Erika and Hans Lindner start repairing bicycles in a garage in Bremen. On Saturdays the queue reaches the street.

    2people

  2. 1956

    The first frame of our own

    The city bike is welded by hand, painted in one green and sold to the neighbors first.

    12employees

  3. 1964

    The touring bike Model 64

    Built for the coast road, with a rack that holds a full picnic. 4,000 leave the workshop in the first year.

1972–2003

The rope factory at the harbor

A long hall, one line and a team that grew to several hundred people.

  1. 1972

    Into the old rope factory

    The company moves to the harbor, into a hall long enough to build a frame from start to finish on one line.

    140employees

  2. 1983

    The first aluminum frame

    Lighter by a third, and the start of a long argument with the steel purists in the workshop.

  3. 1991

    A second workshop in Leipzig

    Twelve mechanics from Leipzig join, and with them the best wheel builders the company has had.

Since 2004

Bikes that carry a city

Cargo bikes, a repair promise and a motor that any workshop can fix.

  1. 2004

    Bikes that carry things

    The first cargo bike, built for a bakery that wanted to deliver without a van.

  2. 2012

    Spare parts for 30 years

    Every bike sold comes with the promise that its parts will be available for three decades.

  3. 2019

    An electric drive from Bremen

    The motor is designed in the old rope factory and can be repaired by any good workshop.

  4. 2026

    75 years and one million bikes

    The millionth bike leaves the line in March. It goes to a bakery, of course.

    380employees