What Bike companies have closed or fully changed owners??

[Charles M]

Name a frame / bike maker that's either Gone or Changed owners in the past 10 years.

[oldpotatoe]

Name a frame / bike maker that's either Gone or Changed owners in the past 10 years.

Merckx

[Tony T]

Guru (the most recent)

[tuscanyswe]

Moots

[jtakeda]

Serotta.

[PFSLABD]

Lemond.

[aaronf]

Tiemeyer

[Cat3roadracer]

Merlin

[Cat3roadracer]

Form

[Cat3roadracer]

Vicious Cycles

[Cat3roadracer]

Would Independent Fabrication count?

What else do I have in the basement...

[Cat3roadracer]

Breezer

[sg8357]

Kavik, Merlin, Klein?

Then there the zombie brands sold by Bikes Direct

[bicycletricycle]

Brian Baylis isn't taking orders?
Willits (inventor of 29ers)
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae236/bicycletricycle/sale%20sale%20sale/259870d1178574122-2-willits-better-than-1-willits-mountie_zpspfbucpqu.jpg (http://s975.photobucket.com/user/bicycletricycle/media/sale%20sale%20sale/259870d1178574122-2-willits-better-than-1-willits-mountie_zpspfbucpqu.jpg.html)

[Black Dog]

Cèrvelo

[bicycletricycle]

C鑽velo

who bought cervelo?

[bicycletricycle]

circle a cycles

[pbarry]

Dean.

[DfCas]

Cannondale

[sitzmark]

Hmmm...
What if still in business, same ownership, but no longer making bicycles? Count?

SoftRide

[Elefantino]

Airborne.

[Black Dog]

who bought cervelo?

Some big Dutch sports co.

[cetuximab]

Sorry on the spelling, Tommaso

I tried to warantee a frame.

New owners, still making bikes.

[Buzz Killington]

Vicious Cycles

Vicious is still in business. I was just there today. Still making frames, painting, powder coating, also doing aluminum bikes now. Also Metal Guru frame building school. Same owner as always.

[veloduffer]

Litespeed

Does Independent Fab count?
Harry Havnoonian bicycles?
Torelli and Mondonico?

[seanile]

schwinn

[Adam]

Santa Cruz

Cervelo

Both now under the PON umbrella of brands.

[jdp211]

Spooky

[tumbler]

I stumbled upon this the other day, which had some interesting info on this topic:

Inrng: Who Makes What? (http://inrng.com/who-makes-what/)

[sitzmark]

Aegis
Argus

Both Maine (carbon) frame makers out of business.

[Cat3roadracer]

Vicious is still in business. I was just there today. Still making frames, painting, powder coating, also doing aluminum bikes now. Also Metal Guru frame building school. Same owner as always.


I'm happy to hear that. Carl is a first class dude.

[CaptStash]

I stumbled upon this the other day, which had some interesting info on this topic:

Inrng: Who Makes What? (http://inrng.com/who-makes-what/)

Super cool website. Who knew Oakley owns Ray Ban, Giant builds some of Colnago's frames, Fuji does Kestrel and Fizik owns Brooks. I had no clue!

CaptStash...
Exceptionally clueless

[Steve in SLO]

Ibis, slightly more than 10 years ago.

[bfd]

Redline. Yes, they still make BMX bikes, but they were trying to make in-roads into cross bikes and according to a friend who writes for a cx mag, they put millions into cross racing - sponsoring riders, races and other events.

Well for 2016, they pulled the plug. I guess they couldn't sell enough units to make up for the losses. This is a huge loss.

[thattallasiangu]

GT - A little over 10 years.

[El Chaba]

Hmmm...
What if still in business, same ownership, but no longer making bicycles? Count?

SoftRide

In my opinion Softride never did make bicycles....

[merckx]

Sorry on the spelling, Tommaso

I tried to warantee a frame.

New owners, still making bikes.

I thought Tommaso was the house brand for Ten Speed Drive Imports and built by Billato.

[BobC]

611 out of Roanoke? Always wondered if he closed up shop.

Also Coho. Charles Latham retired.

[paredown]

Tom Teesdale (RIP)

The British frame makers--barely can find any left. Mercian keeps on though. The last one to disappear (although they are saying sabbatical) was Roberts (http://www.robertscycles.com/).

[Mikej]

Klein

[batman1425]

Gary Fisher

[batman1425]

Blue

[Bob Ross]

What if still in business, same ownership, but no longer making bicycles? Count?

Does Bridgestone still have the same ownership?

[oldpotatoe]

Blue

Gone or change owners? I had some really interesting dealings with Blue when I owned the shop..not good dealings at all.
Ahh, looked it up..new owners. The old guys were divers, owned by PSI, sourced dive equipment from Asia, decided to try bikes..what a bunch of maroons.

[sitzmark]

In my opinion Softride never did make bicycles....

Using that line of logic could eliminate a number of companies, eh?

[Repack Rider]

Ibis was sold to an investment group, and Scot Nicol took the money and went on an extended vacation. New owners ran the company into the ground in short order, and Scot bought it back for a fraction of what he sold it for.

Salsa. Yeti.

[batman1425]

Gone or change owners? I had some really interesting dealings with Blue when I owned the shop..not good dealings at all.
Ahh, looked it up..new owners. The old guys were divers, owned by PSI, sourced dive equipment from Asia, decided to try bikes..what a bunch of maroons.

They were gone for a year or two, then there was a reboot after the ownership change. I'm not sure if the reboot is still going.

[JGardner]

Guru

[veloduffer]

Does Bridgestone still have the same ownership?


Bridgestone doesn't have a US. Operation but they still make bikes in Japan, primarily utility bikes. This is the same as the tire company that also owns Firestone and is buying Pep
Boys. They are also a manufacturer of golf equipment.

Grant Petersen managed the US Bridgestone operation until they closed it, largely due to foreign currency fluctuations making it unprofitable.

[bikingshearer]

Masi - may be more than 10 years ago, I don't remember the details or the time line.

A couple from significantly longer ago than 10 years:

Cinelli (from Cino Cinelli to the Colombo family)
Pogliaghi (from Sante Pogliaghi to the Basso Bros. to nonexistent)

[allezdude]

Johnny cycles- Madison
Matt Chester - CO-

[SpeedyChix]

Badger
Nuke Proof

[oldpotatoe]

Bridgestone doesn't have a US. Operation but they still make bikes in Japan, primarily utility bikes. This is the same as the tire company that also owns Firestone and is buying Pep
Boys. They are also a manufacturer of golf equipment.

Grant Petersen managed the US Bridgestone operation until they closed it, largely due to foreign currency fluctuations making it unprofitable.

http://www.euroasiaimports.com/ProductCart/pc/Bridgestone-c1504.htm

La Cresenta CA..

[jemoryl]

Masi - may be more than 10 years ago, I don't remember the details or the time line.

A couple from significantly longer ago than 10 years:

Cinelli (from Cino Cinelli to the Colombo family)
Pogliaghi (from Sante Pogliaghi to the Basso Bros. to nonexistent)

If you go to the bassobikes.com website you will see that they still have some Pogliaghi bikes (go to the 'shop' page - maybe not currently in production?).