Orbea

Orbea Production Models 2009
Road	Mountain	Triathlon	Trekking
Orca	Occam	Ordu	Cross Sport
Opal	Oiz	Ora	Speed
Onix	Rallon	Aletta	Equipped Sport
Arin	Alma		Folding
Lobular	Lanza		Equipped Leisure
Aqua	Dakar		Cross Leisure
Asphalt	Sport
	Flow
	Pellejo

Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer in Mallabia in the Basque Country of Spain. Founded in 1840 as a rifle and gun producer, the company changed in 1930 following the Spanish Civil War. The company produces racing bicycles and mountain bicycles, including carbon fibre designs. Orbea is part of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and is Spain's largest bicycle manufacturer. Orbea designs their bicycles, and produces tooling in Spain, while the frames are manufactured in Asia, then the raw frames are sent to Spain for finishing, allowing them to be labeled as made in Spain, based on the value added rules of origin. ^[1]

Orbea sponsors and supplies bikes to teams, including the Basque-based Euskaltel-Euskadi professional team and the U.S.-based Herring Gas Cycling Team[1]. Spanish rider Samuel Sánchez rode an Orbea Orca Carbon to win the road race at the Beijing Olympics and Julien Absalon won the mountain bike gold on an Orbea Alma.

References

^ "Allanti (2008) "Where was my bike made?"". Retrieved 2010-01-21.

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[1] "Allanti (2008) "Where was my bike made?"". Retrieved 2010-01-21.

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