Orbea

For the Spanish cycling team, see Orbea (cycling team). For the genus of plants, see Orbea (plant).

Orbea

Company type	Co-operative
Industry	Bicycles
Founded	1931
Headquarters	Mallabia , Spain
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Bicycles and related components
Website	orbea.com

Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer in Mallabia, Basque Country. It began in 1840 as a rifle and gun producer and began making bicycles in the 1930s. It is part of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and Spain's largest bicycle manufacturer. Orbea designs and builds bicycles, with some of the higher-cost bikes being made in Portugal but all the others made at the Orbea factory in Mallabia; the steel-framed bikes are made of Columbus tubing.

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

2007 Orbea Ordu carbon fiber time trial bicycle

1970 Orbea city bike

Orbea sponsors and supplies bikes to teams, including the Euskaltel-Euskadi professional team in the Basque area of Spain and the Herring Gas team [1] in the USA. 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. Craig Alexander, three time Ironman World Triathlon Champion (2008, 2009, 2011), rode an Orbea Ordu in his first 2 wins and although he had planned to spend the rest of his career racing on Orbea bicycles, having signed a lifetime contract with Orbea in 2010, he switched to another brand for the 2011 race.

Orbea also manufactures and assembles bikes in China.

External links

• Orbea
• Orbea USA
• Orbea Australia
• Orbea Romania
• Cyclingnews.com - Inside Orbea: Spain's co-operative bike company