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.

1951A garage behind the house

  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.

  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.

  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.

  4. 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.

  5. 1983

    The first aluminum frame

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

  6. 1991

    A second workshop in Leipzig

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

  7. 2004

    Bikes that carry things

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