Our Story
How it started and how we ended up in Australia !
About 5 years ago, I was drinking beer with my old friend Andreas. A few beers into the conversation we started talking about our childhood and our secret BMX club. The club was inspired by the movies we used to watch like The Goonies, ET and Stand By Me. As club members we rode our BMX bikes together, exploring our neighborhood looking for adventure. We were best buddies. Nothing could stop us. I left that evening with a nice feeling and a smile on my face.
In the coming weeks we spent every evening looking at old school BMX bikes online, reading about the history of BMX, mapping out all the classic components, studying frame geometry and so on. We were obsessed.
Eventually - with the help from a friend who worked as a product designer at a local company - we started to put together sketches and technical drawings of the ultimate BMX bike. After several months we finally had a drawing and we started to reach out to various manufacturers in Taiwan trying to convince them to build a bike for us. Most of them turned us down. But we managed to convince one company to meet with us, legendary tubing maker Tange. The meeting went really well and we decided to move forward and produce the first edition of the Monza BMX.
Today we are happy and proud to have sold 1000s of bikes to great people around the world. And we are grateful that so many of these riders contribute to our growing community every day. You can apply to join the community here: Monza BMX Owners Group
In November 2019 we sold our first bath of 200 limted and numbered Monza bikes in Australia and the welcome of our product was fantastic. So in 2021 we have further built up our local prescence by a local Sydney fulfillment center and can service customers all over Australia in 2-3 days. The 2021 batch consists of only 287 individually numbered bikes.
The Bicycle Club has been resurrected, its growing and we look forward to taking the next steps with all of you.
Cheers,
Thomas
Founder, Monza Bicycle Club