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Orbea Mountain Bikes From Day One
Orbea mountain bikes are a well known brand throughout the world of mountain biking. This company has its home in a town called Mallavia in the Basque Country, which is in the North of Spain. Today the company makes Orbea mountain bikes, Orbea road bikes and Orbea touring bikes.
An interesting fact about the company is that Orbea actually started out as an arms company. At first, Obrea made pistols, rifles and the cartridges to go in them. Orbea was famed throughout Spain for the weapons it made. Certianly, by the 1870s, Orbea was one of the most influential and successful companies in the area.
The company’s history of making weapons continued up until the end of the Spanish Civil War when demand waned. Things also changed in 1926 when the business split into two seprate companies following family problems. One of the businesses created by the split of the arms company moved into the mountain bike industry and Orbea mountain bikes were born.
As is normal for well known and highly respected biking brands, Orbea has always supported and maintained close links with high profile biking teams. It has a very close relationship with the Basque cycling team Euskaltel-Euskadi as well as Xacobeo-Galicia. However, Orbea mountain bikes has had its own team since 2005.
These days, many Europe-wide biking events are sponsored by Orbea and therefore the company’s products are often to be found as prizes in high profile races. 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. The events which Orbea sponsors in Spain are high profile and very well known, with participants at all levels. More evidence of their quality, if it were needed is the fact that the bikes are sold in many countries worldwide.
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