Company:Riese und Müller
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Short description: German bicycle manufacturer
| Founded | 1993 |
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| Headquarters | Darmstadt , Germany |
Riese & Müller is a bicycle manufacturer in Darmstadt, Germany founded by Markus Riese and Heiko Müller. It designs and makes suspended bicycles. Frames are produced by companies such as Pacific Cycles, Taiwan. All of their bikes are assembled by hand in Germany.
Riese & Müller was founded in 1993 to sell Hot Ears, earmuffs to keep the ears warm while wearing a helmet. The first bicycle, the folding bicycle known as the Birdy, started in the garage of Heiko Müller's parents as a university project. (As of 2018) Riese & Müller had a revenue of €76 million a year. In 2006 it started selling Zwei bike bags.[1] Other models produced by Riese & Müller are:
- Charger3
- Multitinker
- Mountain Climber
- Load 60
- Load 75
- Packster 70
- Multicharger Mixte
- Roadster
- Nevo3
- Cruiser Mixte
- Birdy (a folding bike with 18" wheels)
- Frog bicycle (a folder with 12" wheels, discontinued for years but available with 16" wheels as of 2010)
- Avenue
- Culture
- Equinox (discontinued)
- Gemini (discontinued)
- Homage (since November 2005)
- Intercontinenta
- e-bikes Delite, Charger, Nevo, Swing, & Tinker
See also
References
- ↑ "EUROBIKE". eurobike exhibition. 2006-10-29. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928194927/http://www.eurobike-exhibition.de/html/neuheitenliste.php?web_id=2&lan_id=7&. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
External links
- Official website (in English)
- Tinkering with the Multitinker A review of R&M's Multitinker cargo bike, 2023
- History of Riese & Müller and the Birdy (in German)
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