Speaking about the history of Campmajó Bikes is talking about the life of Lluís Campmajó. Lluís has been a passionate about bicycles since he was very young. At the age of 12 he was already competing in cycling trial championships, a discipline which was called “trialsín” at that time. It was then that, with his first notions of mechanics, at the age of 14 he built his own trial bicycle.
Lluís continued to compete in both bicycle and motorcycle trials, he studied to be a mechanic in Granollers and at the age of twenty he became a fan of mountain biking. One day he passed in front of a bicycle shop and saw some aluminum models that caught his attention, he decided to ask for the price, but the bikes were too expensive. However, he asked for a catalogue. When he arrived home, he saw that on the last page of the catalogue there was a perfect plan of the bicycle frame. That was the only piece of information he needed to start his path towards making his dream come true, creating his own bicycle brand.
Enthusiastic about the fact that they wanted an aluminum bicycle, together with a friend, they bought the first aluminum tubes they found and took the bicycle to weld in a workshop in Mataró. After assembling the components they began to try it, but the bicycle did not last for half an hour! The quality of the tubes they had purchased was too low.
After this first disappointment, as they already had the components and geometry, they decided to make a second bicycle and this time they decided to make it from steel. Although the quality of the tubes was still very low, this time it didn’t brake.