Batavus

Batavus BV is a Dutch bicycle manufacturer in Heerenveen. The company founded in 1904, was one of the largest manufacturers of the Netherlands.

History

Batavus was founded in 1904. Batavus Intercycle Corporation was the leading manufacturer of wheels and mopeds in the Netherlands in the 1970s. In their most productive times, the company had 33,000 square feet of production space. The factory in Heerenveen had 700 employees produce 70,000 Batavus mopeds and 250,000 bicycles a year. Batavus exported 55 percent of its production.

In 2010 Batavus formed together with the Bäumker & Co. GmbH, a company founded in 1931 wholesalers from Rheine ( Westphalia), the Batavus Bäumker GmbH and was taken over by the Dutch Accell Group.

Batavus Professional

From the early 1970s until the early 1990s Batavus put a number of professional road cycling, cyclocross, touring bike and time trial frame. The frame carrying the lettering Hand Built in Holland by Batavus. The frames were available in the tube qualities 531C, 531P ( Reynolds tubes ) and SL, SP and SLX ( Columbus Tubes). The dropouts come from Campagnolo.

Cycling

Batavus had its own amateur team. From the mid- 1980s was the official supplier of Dutch Batavus KNWU / AMEV team.