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Diamondback Mountain Bike
Diamondback Mountain Bike brand is owned by longstanding and well respected Raleigh Bicycle Company. The Raleigh Bicycle Company is a bicycle manufacturer originally based in Nottingham, UK. It is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world. Raleigh's history started in 1887, in Raleigh Street, Nottingham. Frank Bowden, a
prosperous 38-year-old, bought a bicycle made by Messrs. Woodhead, Angois and Ellis, because his doctor had told
him to ride a bicycle for his health. Bowden was impressed by his bicycle and went to Raleigh Street to find the
makers. Woodhead, Angois and Ellis were making three bikes a week. Bowden made them an offer and bought the
business. Production rose and three years later he needed a bigger workshop, which he found in a four-storey
building in Russell Street. He changed the company's name to Raleigh Cycles to commemorate the original
address. In six years Bowden created a business which became the biggest bicycle manufacturing company in the world and occupied seven and a half acres in Faraday Road, Nottingham. Raleigh had a long association with the bicycle sport. Most notable is the TI-Raleigh team of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980 Joop Zoetemelk won the Tour de France on a Raleigh. In the mid 1980s the Raleigh team was co-sponsored by Panasonic. In 1984, riding Raleigh-badged bicycles, Team U.S.A. scored several impressive victories at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The company also supplied bicycles to the French Système U team in the late 1980s.
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The company's special products division made race frames, including those used by the
Raleigh professional team of the 1970s. . Over the years, Raleigh has also supported small British teams,
including Raleigh Banana in the 1980s. It also sponsored a mountain bike team in the early 1990s.
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