All About Orbea Mountain Bikes
Orbea mountain bikes are a well known brand throughout the world of mountain biking.The company that makes them is based in a town called Mallavia, in Spain’s Basque country.Today the company makes Orbea mountain bikes, Orbea road bikes and Orbea touring bikes.
Interestly this mountain bike company actually started life as a weapons and ammunition company. In the beginning Orbea made rifles, pistols and their cartridges. All through Spain, Orbea was renowned for the weapons it made. Certianly, by the 1870s, Orbea was one of the most influential and successful companies in the area.
Orbea continued making weapons all the way up until when the Spanish Civil War Ended when it was hit by a drop in demand. In 1926 tensions in the family business led to the company splitting into two separate enterprises. Orbea mountain bikes was born from one of the companies brought about by the split of the original company.
As a well known and respected name in biking, the company has always sponsored and had strong links with cycling teams. Euskaltel-Euskadi and Xacobeo-Galicia are two of the high profile cycling teams with which Orbea has close ties.But since 2005 Orbea mountain bikes has also had its very own team.
Nowadays, the company sponsors many biking events throughout Europe and its products are often given as prizes in mountain biking events on the continent. Modern, carbon fibre frames are common on their current designs. Many of their current bikes have frames made entirely of aluminium which is lightweight and very popular.
Thanks to sponsorship of high profile biking events and shows providing plenty of publicity, the company’s future appears secure.It supports and sponsors many of Spain’s biggest mountain biking events, which include many treks which are open to large numbers of members of the public. More evidence of their quality, if it were needed is the fact that the bikes are sold in many countries worldwide.