Mokumono Cycles

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We're on a mission to bring back bicycle production to the country where it belongs: The Netherlands!

Geschiedenis

Did you know that 97% of the 13 million bicycles assembled in Europe last year were made with bicycle frames imported from outside the European Union?

In 20 years time the bicycle manufacturing industry has disappeared almost completely from Europe. Besides some manufacturers of bicycle components the vast majority of European bicycle manufactures have either relocated their production to Southeast Asia or ceased to exist. The reason was simple: we just couldn’t compete with the cheap labour countries like Taiwan and China.

Smart? Sure, if you are interested in making money and don't care to much about quality. At Mokumono we think that dragging all those frames half way across the earth is unnecessary and extremely wasteful. Above all, we believe that it is a shame that our rich history of bicycle manufacturing just ends here. So, we decided to do something about it.

Two years ago we started the process to reinvent the way a bicycle frame is produced. We wanted to make it suitable for the 21ste century and we succeeded, inspired by the European car industry. Cars are still produced in Europe because off constant innovating and automating production processes. We took the lessons learned here and applied them to the production of bicycle frames.

Soon (November 2017) the production of the Mokumono Delta will start and we'll be one-step closer in reaching our goal: bring bicycle manufacturing back to The Netherlands.

Stay tuned…