Our journey started in 2003...

This is now. A year that we look forward to, as we continue to offer the best bikepacking racks and bags as well as the most stylish city bikes for urban commuters.

Old Man Mountain continues to launch new bikepacking gear: Impala Lowrider, Atlas Rack Pack, Hemlock with FLiP Cages and a 5L Dry bag. The Impala Lowrider is a front lowrider rack, with the added top platform for carrying an extra bag.

Old Man Mountain FLiP Cages are versatile, injection-molded nylon cargo cages designed for bikepacking, featuring a proprietary "Fast Lock in Place" (FLiP) system for quick-detach, secure, and rattle-free mounting of compatible bags. They mount to 3-pack fork mounts or racks, weigh 94g-139g, and include a removable foot for traditional strap-on gear usage.

Avantum discovers the new Shorts, a short video format on Youtube, as a fun way to upload short product videos about bikepacking racks and bags.

For the fourth year in a row, Old Man Mountain is launching a new product. This year, the revolutionary Axle Pack is born. The Axle Pack is unlike any cargo mount seen before. It provides a four-pack of mounts and can be attached to almost any fork with a thru-axle, including suspension forks. Rated to carry 5kgs on each side it is a stronger alternative to using eyelets on the fork, and can be used on bikes that have no eyelets for a standard bottle holder, for example.

With the shutdown of labiciplegable.com, labicielectrica.com and alforjas.net, finally, product info and online shops are centered around 5 domains vs the +35 domains used a decade ago.

Several new mounting instruction videos for various Old Man Mountain racks are uploaded to Youtube, to replace now quite old instructions for legacy modelos like the legendary Sherpa rack.

Again this year, Avantum is displaying new bikepacking racks and bags at the Festibike bikeshow. Newly launched Old Man Mountain Pizza Rack, and the first bags from the Old Man Mountain brand, Ponderosa Pannier and Juniper Trunk Bag.

These items are displayed on a Casadei gravel bike, and on borrowed BH bikes from Biciretiro bike shop in Madrid.

Unification and elimination of domains is almost completed, with bikepacking shop oldmanmountain.com.es moving all the content to the avantum.info domain. This domain was originally used as the main company domain between 2003 and 2014, before the move to avantum.bike domain.

More bikepacking gear comes to Spain this year through the Widefoot cargo cages and bottleholders.

Old Man Mountain adds a new rack to their lineup, the Elkhorn. Available in two versions, Elkhorn Short for 700c wheels and Elkhorn Tall for 29" wheels. Designed for short and medium distance bikepacking trips, allows for bottleholder or cargo mounts on the side and a rack bag on top.

After many years, avantum decides to participate with a stand at the Festibike bikeshow. The fair is also coming back after 2 years due to covid restrictions. On this return to the show, avantum is focusing 100% on bikepacking gear diplaying all the Old Man Mountain racks, a few Carradice bags as well as the Widefoot cargo cages. In order to display the racks properly, Evil Bikes kindly lets us have some bikes for the stand: Offering, Following and a stunning Chamois Hagar gravel bike. Here equipped with two Elkhorn racks and the Widefoot Classic CargoMount

Avantum.bike gets a more modern design. A total redesign, more up to date. Old Man Mountain rack sales continue to grow, and should soon be back at normal levels. And for the first time in many years new racks are launched, the Divide and the Divide Fat (for fat bikes). Building on the legendary Sherpa rack, but with new and improved details, such as a lower pannier rail and height adjustable dropouts.

Many European bike factories do not have a lot of stock to sell, but Avantum identifies a new Italian brand, Trubbiani. Again classic Dutch style bikes with an Italian touch are added, including retro-style Graziella folding bike.

The year of the pandemic. Complicated at first with quarantines and restrictions in public spaces. But during the summer all of Europe wants a bike. Maybe to avoid public transportation and the risk of contagion the virus, maybe due to a desire to spend more time outside. The industry sees new record sales.

Also good news, Old Man Mountain gets a new owner, and the supply difficulties from last year disappear over night. Sales more than doubles compared to last year. Specially racks being shipped to other EU countries such as Germany, France, Benelux countries, Sweden and Finland.

The domain portfolio has grown over the years to include +35 domains. In 2019 is the time to streamline and simplify workload. Therefore, brand name domains, such as pilen.com.es, beixo.com.es (and severla more) and promotional domains like exclusivamentetuya.com.es are all deleted. Time to focus on 1 main domain and 3 web shop domains.

A complicated year to get supplies from top selling brand Old Man Mountain, which leads to lower leverl of sales of these racks.

This year carries on more or less like 2017. No new brands or products and work continues to improve and develop current web sites.

A quite year for the introduction of new brands and products. Time is spent on updating web sites to more modern design and improving adaptability to small screens such as mobile phones.

The bike shop near Retiro park, Avantum Company Store, closes it's doors. Nonetheless, Avantum will continue to focus on B2B and B2C sales via store contacts and it's online shops. The warehouse is relocated to a new site in Coslada.

For one of the online bikeshops, the Italian bicycles Dolce Vita are added as a new option for bikers looking for Italian classic bicycles.

This year Avantum Brands introduces the new Italian classic bike brand Velo-Ce. Their slogan is "Ispirazione nordica, passione e manifattura italiana", reflecting their inspiration from northern Europe but with an Italian touch.

A separate web site is created for the bike shop Avantum Company Store: avantumcompanystore.com.es. Furthermore, to promote that Old Man Mountain racks also offers a solution for MTB bikes equipped with a thru-axle, the website portabultoseje12x142.com.es is created.

Another new brand introduced on the Spanish bike market is Danish Copenhagen Parts, with their combined handlebar and baskets, Bike Porter and Bike Porter Bikeswept.

Also, Italian bike brand Casadei is also added to the brand portfolio. Casadei product catalog includes a wide range of bicycles, from kid bikes, folding, classic, trekking, MTB, gravel to ebikes. Naturally, Avantum will focus on classic and city ebikes.

Furthermore, a small test order is made to Poland for stylish leather bags from FS Bike. These bags can be attached to the rear carrier.

As demand is rising, the website oldmanmountain.com.es is translated in to Italian, French, Swedish, German and Portugueese in order to better target consumers from those countries.

Avantum takes a break from participating in the Festibike bike shows.

Avantum adds another interesting product for citybikers. The LOCGear Bike Basket LID. A bike basket with a lid that can be locked with a key. Obviously not safe to leave valuable things like cell phones, but perfect for clothes, helmet or other stuff while you briefly enter the bakery for bread.

In February of this year the business partner leaves the joint shop By Bike City and Avantum continues solo on this project. To mark the change the physical bike shop changes it's name from Bike Byke City to Avantum Company Store.

For the 4th year, Avantum sponsors Tweed Ride Madrid.

All websites received a mayor upgrade and redesign for the purpose of displaying better on mobile devices. Furthermore, avantum.bike domain was launched to further strengthen brand identity. All content was therefore moved from the .info domain to the .bike domain.

Avantum, via Bilbao bike shop Miner, sponsors the Bilbao Tweed Ride with Adriatica bicycles.

Avantum creates an account in Instagram.

The bike industry sees the birth of the thru-axle around this time. Hence, Old Man Mountain adapts to the market conditions and adds thru-axle compatibility for its racks. The first fit kits are made, including what is needed for mountin to a thru-axle.

This year also marks as the year Mammoth Bikes takes over from Probike as the shop that buys the most Old Man Mountain racks in Spain.

This year, Avantum decides to again sponsor Tweed Ride Madrid under the tag line "Pilen Mueve la Tweed Ride" with bikes for the organizers as well as products for the prize ceremony.

Pilen brand introduces the possibility for the customer to personalize the bike according to his or hers tastes and needs. The consequence of this is that Avantum will no longer stock Pilen bikes at the warehouse, as they are now basically made to order, with endless combinations possible.

A new sales rep is hired for Cataluña region of Spain. Participating in this year's Festibike bike show.

The bike sector starts to suffer from overpopulation, with too many new bike shops opening for a market that is more or less stagnant at just below 1 million units sold per year. The bike sector has survived the financial crisis of 2008 well (but is still going on) , but so many new bike stores can not share the same cake, so closing of bike shops is evident

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This year, Avantum introduces AMiiVA. The brand was founded around 2009-2011 in France by Philippe Poupard. Unlike other manufacturers that use standard components, the Amiiva City was designed from scratch using CAD technology and 3D modeling, resulting in a frame with flowing lines that doesn't resemble a typical folding bike. The bike had an optimized central folding: The frame folded at a strategic point that allows both wheels to be parallel and aligned.

AMiiVA was unforunately short lived and closed the factory a couple of years later.

Adriatica bicycle sales start to take off this year. Avantum continues to sponsor Sergio & Amelia with gear, this time with Old Man Mountain racks. For the second time Avantum sponsors Tweed Ride Madrid with products for the prize ceremony, including a classic bike from Adriatica.

Participating in this year's Festibike bike show.

Pinterest has surfaced a social platform based around images, perfect for Avantum's stylish Dutch-style classic bikes. So, naturally, an account was created on Pinterest. An account for Avantum was also created on Tumblr and on Flickr, the image sharing network.

The shop, By Bike City, participates in the EcoCity Mobility event.

This was one of the best years for sales of Old Man Mountain. The new brand that Avantum offers bike shops and end consumers this year is Italian Adriatica. A brand that combines design, good quality with affordable prices. The brand is incorporated in order to substitute Kross as the more affordably priced bike alternative.

Keeping safe on city street is important for a cyclist, therefore, Avantum introduces Casque'n Ville. A stylish city bike helmet where interchangeable hats can be attached to the helmet.

The bike shop, By Bike City, is one of the sponsors of the Bike Polo Madrid. Avantum also sponsors RutaSolidaria and Biciclimbers with Carradice bags for their bike travels.

Madrid Cycle Chic organizes Madrid's first Tweed Ride, and Avantum is one of the sponsors for the prizes for the event. Prize was offered to best dressed and most classic bike, among others.

The shop, By Bike City, participates in the FeriOcio fair (Pabellón de Cristal) promoting ebikes and offering the opportunity to test and bike for those that do not understand or know what an ebike is.

By Bike City is also interview for Madrid Directo, on channel Telemadrid.

Avantum participates in Festibike bike show again this year.

Together with a business partner, Avantum opens what is Madrid's first bicycle store focusing 100% on urban bicycles. Stylish rides, folding bikes and ebikes are the main focus of the store.

Located across the street from Madrid's El Retiro Park, it offers customers a chance to test electrical bicycles before buying.

Brands offered in the store includes all the brands Avantum offers exclusively: Kronan, Pilen, Velorbis, Biomega, Retrovelo, Beixo, Blancmarine, Bike-in-Bag, Adriatica, Bicygnals, Pedalite, Carradice and Old Man Mountain. But also brands such as Kalkhoff, Hercules, Monty, Brooks, Oyama, Conor, Basil, Nutcase, Abus and Knog.

Kross bikes started to be present on display in quite a few bike shops this year.

For the first time Avantum sells Old Man Mountain racks to a bicycle shop in Italy. B2C sale of Old Man Mountain to Italy and France continue to grow, slowly, but growing.

Avantum participates in Festibike bike show again this year.

An account on twitter was created.

2009 is a year when Avantum Iberia transforms in to Avantum Brands. The change reflects the focus of the company, offering brands that has 2 things, design and functionality, and that it solves a problem for the user. Old Man Mountain is the perfect brand to display this. As basically the only option on the market for carrying gear on a mountain bike with no eyelets. Born in 1996 by the hands of Channing Hammond, Old Man Mountain has become the go-to reference for racks. Axle mounted, they can be mounted on any bike, whether the bike has eyelets or not.

Avantum Brands now become sole importer of the Danish Biomega bicycle brand. Minimalist bicycle design created by Jens Martin Skibsted, a Danish designer, entrepreneur and author.

Polish Kross bicycles is also added as a brand and a sales rep is hired specifically for promoting the brand to stores.

Again, Avantum participates in the bike show Festibike. For the online shops Johnny Loco cruiser bicycle, Danish Yakkay helmets and Yamimoto ebikes are added.

This was one of the best years for sales of Beixo. Probike in Barcelona becomes the largest client for the Old Man Mountain brand, as well as being the countries number 1 seller of these racks. For further marketing classic Dutch style bicycles the web site bicicletaclasica.com.es is launched. Avantum becomes a sponsor of Sergio & Amelia, sponsoring the two riders with Carradice bags for their travels accros Europe, Marroco and Iceland.

This year is also the year that Avantum creates an account on the social network Facebook.

For the first time, Avantum participates with a stand at the national bicycle show, Festibike.

For the first time, Old Man Mountain racks are being shipped to Italy and France. This is a reflection of being the sole importer to Europe of these fantastic bike racks, that really solve the problem of carrying gear on a bike without eyelets.

On the domain bicicletasplegables.com, that promotes the use of the folding bike, a Forum is launched which almost immediately reaches record visits: 1,5 million visits with over 2 million visits in the next years to come.

The year sees 3 new additions to the niche online stores, Wicler, Maxim and Zwei bags. Wicler, the hands-free MP3 player for bikers was an interesting gadget for music lovers.

As exclusive brands, Avantum adds German Retrovelo made to order bicycles where the buyer can personalize the bike to his taste.

While Bicygnals caters to the cyclists safety, offering bike lights, Pedalite offers pedals with lights on the sides generated by the movement of the pedals.

2007 sees an increase in sales of 127% in Eur, +77% in terms of bikes units sold and +185% increase in sales of accessories. For promotional reasons these domain are added: liberatedetucadena.com.es for Beixo bikes and exclusivamentetuya.com.es for Retrovelo bicycles.

The niche online stores sees the addition of bicycles from brands like Electra, Tomax, Ttora folding bikes, Mobiky folding bikes and Tucano.

Another future success story starts this year with the introduction of newly created Beixo brand in The Netherlands. Beixo sets apart with their bicycles made with a shaft drive instead of the tradicional chain.

Adding to the line of classic bicycles, Danish Velorbis is added. The niche online stores sees the addition of accessories from brands like GMG child seats.

2006 sees an almost 200% increase in sales, +125% in terms of bike units sold and an increase of 357% of accessories. Several clients from Belgium and Sweden are added in the Web Services line. More brands get their own website at urbike.com.es, kronan.com.es, blancmarine.com.es, velorbis.com.es. And to promote Velorbis bicycles churchill.com.es, churchillyvictoria.com.es since their bike models are named Churchill and Victoria.

This year, avantum also creates an account on Youtube. The first years uploaded videos were mostly about our bikes, Tweed Ride and the Festibike bike show. Later on, video manuals for how to install Old Man Mountain racks were added.

labicielectrica.com is added as a new channel selling only electrical bicycles. Ciclotek becomes one of the suppliers for this channel. Brooks saddles are being introduced and offered as n accessory to the line of classic Dutch style bicycles.

Avantum has a stand at the Feria de Valencia furniture and lamp show in order to introduce Scandinavian Design lamps. Also, handblown glass from Skruf is added to the Lamp portfolio. For the promotion of Swedish Design, escandinavo.com.es web site is created.

The bike brand line sees the addition of French bag maker Gilles Berthoud and Swedish Pilen, a maker of classical Dutch style bicycles. Furthermore, Old Man Mountain racks is imported from the US. A brand that is to become the base for huge growth for Avantum in the coming years. Old Man Mountain and Carradice form a perfect duo for catering to the needs of people wanting to do El Camino de Santiago by bicycle.

And as a promotion for Swedish bike brands Kronan and Pilen the web site vuelvenlassuecas.com.es is launched. This is also the year when each of the brands imported exclusively get their independent visibility. A part from being showcased under avantum.info, they each get their own domain for a clearer market communication: bikeinabag.com.es, carradice.com.es olddmanmountain.com.es, zlamp.com.es, bsweden.com.es. Avantum also secures the domain avantum.es.

For those who want to bend bicycles without having paranormal powers, there's the Uri Geller Bend-It-Bag-Bike, the Uri Bike. For brand identity purposes uribike.com.es was created.

With the purpose of focusing on city and folding bikes, Avantum expands its brand offerings. Introducing Bike-in-a-Bag folding bikes from the UK, Blancmarine folding bikes from France, Carradice panniers from the UK, JX bike wear from Germany, and Komda folding bikes. Several niche domain names were registered and new online shops were created: labiciplegable.com, labiciurbana.com and alforjas.net. These new online shops creates a space for selling not only the brands that Avantum imports exclusively, but also as a space to sell local brands like Monty.

In 2004, Avantum also incorporates a second business line focusing on Scandinavian Design. Swedish designer lamps from BSweden, Zero, Zlamp and SLD are introduced.

Even a third line of business is created, domain name registration, hosting and web design services. Mostly for the increasing inhouse needs but also as support to friends in need of these services. For this, avantumweb.com and avantumconsulting.com domains were created.

Avantum Iberia was founded. Swedish Kronan bicycle brand was the first brand that Avantum introduced in Spain. A Kronan bike was loaded in to the trunk of a Saab and a Tour de España was made with visits to bicycles stores around the country. The first Avantum online shop was also created with the domain name avantum.info.

Launch Party: The PANTA RHEI Art Gallery and Avantum organize "BICYCLE NOTES" – an exhibition of drawings and photographs where numerous artists offered their perspectives on the bicycle. This exhibition presented an interpretation of art and cycling through drawing and photography. Among the participating artists were Sean MacKaoui, Javier Olivares, Antonio Santos, Ángel Bellido, César Fernández Arias, Carlos Baonza, and Almudena Armenta. The Ambassador of the Netherlands was also present at the event.

Avantum also created ciclismourbano.org as a channel to promote the use of bicycle in everyday settings, focusing on themes such as bike to work and ride in style.