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Photo Credit: VeloBase User Tom70s
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| Name: | Orbea |
| Brand: | Orbea |
| Badge Type: | Painted or Decal |
| Frame Types: | Vintage Lightweights |
| Country: | Spain |
| Years: | 1990's |
| Added By: | Tom70s on 09/09/15 |
| Updated By: | Tom70s on 09/09/15 |
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| Frame Examples using this style Head Badge |
| Frame Example Name | Category | Added |
| Orbea TDQ Tour (1996) | Road Race | 09/08/2015 |
Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer in Mallabia, Basque Country.
It is part of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and Spain's largest
bicycle manufacturer. Orbea designs and builds bicycles, with some of
the higher-cost bikes being made in Portugal but all the others made at
the Orbea factory in Mallabia; the steel-framed bikes are made of
Columbus tubing
Orbea has previously sponsored and
supplied bikes to teams, including the now-defunct Euskaltel-Euskadi
professional team in the Basque area of Spain and the Herring Gas team in the USA. Samuel Sánchez rode an Orbea Orca Carbon to win the road
race at the Beijing Olympics and Julien Absalon won the mountain bike
gold on an Orbea Alma. Craig Alexander, three time Ironman World
Triathlon Champion (2008, 2009, 2011), rode an Orbea Ordu in his first 2
wins.
Orbea also manufactures and assembles bikes in China
www.orbea.com
