Local (RSA) Bicycle Brand & Manufacturers

[Steady Spin]

One more to add. ISpyDaFly that did some pretty cool titanium bikes produced in Botswana if I remember 2012 correctly  

 

 

[Stretched@Birth]

14 hours ago, SwissVan said:

And then (sorry OP, for not posting current manufacturers) there was Hanson and Alpina...... both of which I had the pleasure of riding their Columbus SLX tubed road bike variants 

Can’t say I never supported SA bike manufacturers ????

If you’re going to go back in time, then you have to add Le Turbo, which if I remember correctly came out of the same factory as Alpina. 
 

And then there was Petini, Linden Cycles’ own brand, I had a pearl white and lumo pink one. 

[bespokes]

Cabal bikes. Really want one of these.......

https://www.ridecabal.com/

[Danger Dassie]

17 hours ago, Steady Spin said:

Before Mr Patrick founded Pyga a little custom outfit called Morewood existed. 

I remember his first prototype frames he raced at nationals. I think I recall one that ran a modified fork from an MX bike. 

There was also a small custom outfit called Pnelli that made aero road frames from thermoplastics or fiberglass. 

That was a good mate of mine, he made his own frames out of a back shed workshop, called Viggen. There was an oval tubed alloy hardtail with a 6mm wall thickness, he made the oval form by cutting round sections in half and having them welded. Also followed through with a number of full suss designs modelled on Kona/Intense as well as a ti frame with alu lugs that bolted to the tubing with cap screws. 
The MX fork was sourced from The Motorbike Hospital in downtown Joburg. 
 

He and Pat were both jewellers/goldsmiths. When Pat was racing for Time Freight/Kona, occasionally on a Time Freight branded AMP, he and Grant would often chat.
Must find the photos.

[Danger Dassie]

13 hours ago, DrRichard said:

Does Swift Carbon then count as a previously South Africa brand?

Lyne components are a mixture of locally manufactured and imported components and wheels 

Hell yes! The Brazillians got a deal there, I believe there's still small connection to here and there was some design/prototyping consultation just after the hand over. 

[Danger Dassie]

17 hours ago, Steady Spin said:

Before Mr Patrick founded Pyga a little custom outfit called Morewood existed. 

I remember his first prototype frames he raced at nationals. I think I recall one that ran a modified fork from an MX bike. 

There was also a small custom outfit called Pnelli that made aero road frames from thermoplastics or fiberglass. 

Interestingly Pat collaborated a bit with Victor Momsen on developing the Vipa design. And Victor bought into Morewood Bikes a while after Pat had left, unfortunately that didn't seem to work out. A shame since he had some good ideas to take it forward. 

[Hairy]

1 hour ago, Danger Dassie said:

Interestingly Pat collaborated a bit with Victor Momsen on developing the Vipa design. And Victor bought into Morewood Bikes a while after Pat had left, unfortunately that didn't seem to work out. A shame since he had some good ideas to take it forward. 

Around that time I bought a Mbuzi from MW. The Mbuzi was the frame that Mr Minnnnnn raced the Mega on a good few moons ago.

The first time I rode a Mbuzi was at Oakvalley, when MW brought their strawberry coloured Zula prototype bike out to play. The other testers were all over the Zula and Shova's .... but in the deepest darkest recesses of the tent was a white Mbuzi that I got to test. This bike was a revelation of note and I knew that one day I had to own one.

Needless to say that I was seriously excited about this bike, had her re-powder coated and built her up the day I got the frame.

BUT she kept bottoming out on mundane trails. Forwards and backwards with the MW to eventually find out that they supplied the wrong shock and wanted to charge me for a new one to get the bike rolling. Long phone calls and emails later they eventually refunded me on the purchase.

During that time, MW and Momsen were looking to use MW to be their "trail and gravity" side of the business, with a outlook of production in the East. (Not East London or some dody East of JHB somewhere) and it all sounded really exciting. Then it just died like that.

The non branded frame that Mr Minnnn was riding, if memory serves he was racing on the Honda DH rig back then.

This is what she looked like when I got her.

[Steady Spin]

I really miss my Mbuzi. It was a true brawler that would eat of anything I could throw at it with 160 in the rear and a burley Lyrik 160 up front. 

Sadly it moved on to it's new forever home when I built the Evil.

[Danger Dassie]

Another one to add, Adrenalin bikes through Willie Engelbrecht. 

[Shebeen]

You could throw Calculus into that mix too then I guess.

The Momsen offshoots of Muna and Farr could also count to some degree

[Shebeen]

Since we really don't seem to have criteria here, might as well throw in avalanche.

Booth carbon too.

 

[Shebeen]

A recent podcast with Mr Morewood himself. Well worth a lesson, not much spice on the mw exit of that's what you're after.

 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6p2AxraWCllbM09kYC939l?si=2i1HiIIqSGOf0lK3rrXB6w&utm_source=copy-link

[Shebeen]

As local as they come 

https://www.thevillagehub.co.za/partners

[Darko]

If you're including Rapide, then Lyne deserves a mention as well. https://www.lynecomponents.com/

[bozzopi1]

Stubbs wooden bicycles

http://stubbsbespoke.com/