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Brodie Bicycles

Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in British Columbia

Vancouver bicycle brand founded by Paul Brodie in 1986, now owned by its longtime distributor CyberSport Ltd; sells titanium, carbon, aluminum and steel road, gravel, mountain and commuter bikes through independent Canadian bike shops.

Vancouver, BC CA · www.brodiebicycles.com

Small Canadian bicycle brand founded in Vancouver in 1986, sold by founder Paul Brodie to its longtime distributor CyberSport Ltd in 2001, and still run from BC with a small team selling through independent bike shop dealers across Canada. No manufacturing-location claim appears anywhere on the vendor's own site.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Wikipedia reports founder Paul Brodie sold the company to its longtime distributor, CyberSport Ltd, in 2001; the vendor's own site still calls it a Canadian company since 1986. No federal Corporations Canada record exists for either name, consistent with a BC provincial registration, which was not checked (BC Registry is not in the confirmed-reachable source list and CyberSport Ltd has no locatable website of its own). No evidence of foreign ownership was found.

Manufacturing

28.0 inferred

CA 10% · other 90%

The vendor's site lists titanium, carbon, aluminum and CroMo steel frames across every model page but names no factory or country of manufacture anywhere, including on individual product pages. A ~7-person Canadian brand offering titanium and carbon frames at this price point is, by industry norm, sourcing those frames from Taiwanese or Chinese contract manufacturers rather than building them domestically; a small allowance is left for the limited-edition steel anniversary frame, which the vendor frames as a tribute to Brodie's own past frame builders. This split is an estimate, not a documented figure, and the actual factory location could not be verified.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Wikipedia describes Brodie as a small bicycle company with about seven full-time staff based in the Vancouver area; the vendor's contact page lists a BC sales and design team by first name only, with no overseas staff mentioned anywhere.

Inputs

24.5 inferred

EU 15% · other 85%

The one named material input, Reynolds 853 CroMo steel used on the anniversary frame, comes from a UK tube maker. The rest of the line (titanium, carbon, aluminum) has no disclosed material source; since those frames are inferred to be built in Asia, the raw material and component supply chain feeding them is assumed to sit largely in the same region. This mix is a rough estimate given the lack of vendor disclosure.

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