Bionicon

BIONICON
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	2002
Seat	Willows in the Upper Palatinate , Germany
management	Erich Brunner; Gerald Federl;
Branch	Bicycle manufacturer
Website	www.bionicon.com

Bionicon is a German bicycle manufacturer . The company is considered to be the inventor of the pneumatic geometry adjustment for mountain bikes.

history

Bionicon started production with the manufacture of mountain bikes in 2002. Four years later in 2006, due to the optimization of the infrastructure, the move to a new company building, which is still the company's headquarters today.

Products

The invention of the spring travel adjustment by co-owner Andreas Fels can be equated with the founding of the company. The principle of adjustment was inspired by the chamois climbing gear . Other patented developments around the mountain bike by Bionicon are, for example, a gear crank that is developed and marketed together with Nicolai, another German mountain bike manufacturer, as well as a newly developed and weight-reduced chain guide.

Reception in the trade press

Schlecker, Chris 2006, Die Axt im Walde, in: Freeride Magazin 03/2006, p. 80 ff.
Lesewitz, Henri 2006, Das Ziegenprinzip, in: BIKE Magazin 12/2006, p. 118 ff.
Sebal, Rainer 2008, EXTRA: The bikes and parts of the new season, p. 7, in: MountainBIKE 09/2008.
Hain, Johannes 2015, When a Region Determines the System, pp. 78–82. in WOMB 02/2015.

Individual evidence

↑ Maxi: Bionicon Edison EVO in the test: for whom does the Vario miracle from Tegernsee make sense? In: mtb News. July 17, 2015, accessed March 21, 2016 .
↑ Christoph Bayer: From the magazine | Belief in a vision - a visit to Bionicon. In: Enduro. November 25, 2014, accessed March 21, 2016 .
↑ Bionicon: The Success Story 2002-2014. (No longer available online.) In: Bionicon. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016 ; accessed on March 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ J. Hartmann, J. Hildebrand: Germany swings back on the bike. In: The world. August 9, 2010, accessed March 29, 2016 .
↑ Mountain bike: Test report: Bionicon Golden Willow I. In: Mountain bike. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
↑ Active cycling: Bionicon »B-Boxx«: crank with gear unit! In: Active cycling. August 19, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
↑ German Patent and Trademark Office: File number DE: 10 2013 109 178.4. In: German Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved March 30, 2016 .

[1] Maxi: Bionicon Edison EVO in the test: for whom does the Vario miracle from Tegernsee make sense? In: mtb News. July 17, 2015, accessed March 21, 2016 .

[2] Christoph Bayer: From the magazine | Belief in a vision - a visit to Bionicon. In: Enduro. November 25, 2014, accessed March 21, 2016 .

[3] Bionicon: The Success Story 2002-2014. (No longer available online.) In: Bionicon. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016 ; accessed on March 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] J. Hartmann, J. Hildebrand: Germany swings back on the bike. In: The world. August 9, 2010, accessed March 29, 2016 .

[5] Mountain bike: Test report: Bionicon Golden Willow I. In: Mountain bike. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .

[6] Active cycling: Bionicon »B-Boxx«: crank with gear unit! In: Active cycling. August 19, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .

[7] German Patent and Trademark Office: File number DE: 10 2013 109 178.4. In: German Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved March 30, 2016 .