# Car companies that also make bicycles? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520 "2024-10-06T23:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/21 "2024-10-07T18:55:47Z")
> [@texases](#): > > As far as I can tell BMW never depended on bicycles for their business. George, where did you see that? The current issue of _Classics Monthly_. Here’s a link about their pots and pans business. No idea in that era what % of their income was derived by pots/pans vs other items, like bicycles… > **[The lesser known history of BMW - a profitable pots and pans maker](https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/11/24/the-lesser-known-history-of-bmw-a-profitable-pots-and-pans-maker/)** > > BMW has a long history behind it and, as one would expect, since it's based in Germany, it has gone through a lot in the last century. Having faced two ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/22 "2024-10-07T19:15:47Z")
Now it makes sense, we’re talking about the 2-3 years immediately after WWII, they made any and everything to survive. A bit different than > [@George\_San\_Jose1](#): > > And the bicycle line has historically been an important part of BMW’s business ---
**Author:** ![Clueless33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Clueless33](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Clueless33)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/23 "2024-10-07T20:22:37Z")
Yes, George, I knew about BMW bicycles in resent years because I was searching for bmw motorcycles using Google image search engine and it showed the bicycles. I was impressed. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/24 "2024-10-07T20:34:57Z")
Several luxury makers have contracted out bikes to provide their customers with an expensive trinket to hang off their bumper. BMW, Porsche, Audi, I bet there are others. edit-turns out there are at least 10 luxury car makers that have partnered with bike makers to put out models under their brand names: [From BMW to Land Rover, 10 luxury car brands that also build bicycles | YourStory](https://yourstory.com/automotive/luxury-car-brands-build-bicycles-bmw-land-rover-mercedes-benz) ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/25 "2024-10-07T20:48:24Z")
Interesting. It wouldn’t occur to me to purchase a Land Rover bicycle just b/c I had purchased a Land Rover vehicle. hmmm … Maybe that’s why I’m never offered a job in the major car company’s marketing department ? … lol … Or maybe the plan is to offer up a free bicycle if I purchase a Land Rover vehicle. An enticement. That might work. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/26 "2024-10-07T20:53:54Z")
In 1972 I bought a new bike so I could commute to work. Paid $90 at the tempo department store. No idea who made it but still have it but needs new tires. Replaced the French Ross I had as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/27 "2024-10-08T01:01:47Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > Ford owned Philco One of my fraternity brothers went to work for Philco Ford right out of college in the early 1970s. He said that the plant executives got Ford cars to use for a year or two and then they were sold to the employees. You always knew which cars the executives drove because they were parked in cross hatch painted spots. He said that there was a Pantera or two in those spots. ---
**Author:** ![Beancounter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/59ef9b/32.png) [@Beancounter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Beancounter)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 10:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/28 "2024-10-08T10:26:15Z")
Want transportation when your Italian sports car breaks down again? > **[Maserati Bike](https://maseratibike.com/en/home/)** > > Hız, kalite, estetik dendiğinde akıllara düşen İtalya'nın simge markası Maserati spor tutkunları için yılların getirdiği birikimini bisiklet dünyasına sunuyor. Tüm dikkatleri üstünüze çekmeyi başaran modelleri ile Maserati bisiklet modelleri sizler... ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/29 "2024-10-08T12:41:50Z")
In 5th grade had a school field trip to the St Paul assembly plant, back then they were building ‘63 full size cars. Pity your dad did not fly the Tri-motor, I have flown in two different Tri-Motors. With the low wing loading and slow speed, seem to float up on takeoff. Much quieter than expected. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/30 "2024-10-08T14:26:29Z")
> [@MikeInNH](#): > > Lamborghini started as a tractor company and they still do make tractors. Porsche was also a tractor maker. The tractor they designed was licensed to Algaer to build it. It was sold with the Porsche name on it. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/31 "2024-10-08T14:31:39Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > GM owned Frigidaire–which made all manner of appliances My wife worked for Frigidaire in Moraine Ohio for a few months before Gm sold the business to White and closed the plant. Inland division made ice cube trays. Inland also made a cheap sheet metal 45 caliber machine gun for WW2. Delco Products made large electric motors as well as Craftsman bench grinders in the Dayton area plants. ---
**Author:** ![g8treng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@g8treng](https://community.cartalk.com/u/g8treng)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520/32 "2024-10-11T22:57:09Z")
Thanks for the memories about East German cars. I was stationed in Potsdam in the early '70s and saw plenty of Trabants (Trabis) and Wartburgs. Officials did tend to use Wartburgs, such as police and secret service (the infamous Stasi). They were pretty slow though, thank goodness. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-companies-that-also-make-bicycles/197520.md?page=1)