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Founded in Chicago in 1987 by Stan Day, SRAM, LLC has grown to be one of the world's largest bicycle component manufacturers. Today, we are led by CEO, Ken Lousberg, and Stan Day serves as Chairman of our Board. SRAM’s global footprint helps us bring cycling to every corner of the globe, including your local roads and trails. We design and manufacture bicycle components, including shifters, derailleurs, brakes, chains, suspension, and power meters. Our components are used by bicycle manufacturers, distributors, and bicycle retailers. Read the full history of SRAM here: https://www.sram.com/en/company/about/history

Team Shimano Welcome to the world of Shimano. Our main goal in life and business is to help people get closer to nature through the cycling activities they enjoy most. Team Shimano is comprised of people all over the world, working together to fulfill a dream in which more people ride bikes, and the bikes they ride shift better, brake better and perform better overall. There are as many ways to enjoy cycling as there are people on bikes and we have devoted our resources to meeting as many of those individual riding needs as possible, creating the widest range of high quality bicycle components in the world.

Bianchi is the most historic and prestigious brand of bicycles. Our heritage, over 140 years strong, started in Milan in 1885 with Edoardo Bianchi, cannot be equalled in the cycling world. Our positioning embodies the best of what Italy can offer to the world: a commitment to build products as artisans - “a regola d’arte”, distinguishing design, style and taste. Our wide-range of products fans out gradually to meet the needs of the professional and the casual rider, one who loves nature or one who simply wants to move quickly through urban traffic. We provide the ideal bicycle for every type of cyclist. Edoardo Bianchi said that the best way to test a product was to race it. That’s how the Reparto Corse or Racing Department was born. You can always learn something from man’s extreme fatigue racing a bike. Bianchi has always been able to take full advantage from those sensations and feedback to improve and test every bike thoroughly. Just like in motor racing, we have always had a dedicated division following the riders to improve in competitions. Innovation, science and technology come together with man’s sensations. It is not a mystery that for over 100 years this dedication has allowed our champions to win and enabled Bianchi to deliver excellence.