Biomega (bicycle company)

Biomega was a Copenhagen-based, Danish brand of designer bicycles. It was known for engaging with international designers from outside the bicycle industry; including Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid and Bjarke Ingels, often giving its products unconventional solutions. In addition to producing bikes under its own name, Falcon produced bicycles under a joined brand with Puma AG.

Biomega bicycles were represented in the design collections of both MOMA, SFMOMA and the Sir Terrence Conran Foundation Collection.

History
Biomega was established in 1998 by former university classmates Jens Martin Skibsted and Elias Grove Nielsen. Marc Newson design gave the brand its reputation.

In 2010, 'LND' bicycle was launched, It was designed by Ross Lovegrove.

In 2015, the company revealed its first electric bike 'OKO'.

In 2018, it announced that it was going to make an electric vehicle called 'Biomega SIN'. The project received funding from EVE, a Hong Kong-based investment group. It was aimed that in 2021, the EV would to be in production. It was unveiled at the China International Import Expo.

In 2019, the company launched ‘OKO e-low’, their second low step electric bicycle. The bike was designed by KiBiSi, also founded by Jens Martin Skibsted.

In April 2021, they launched 'EIN trailer'. It claimed to be world's first weightless electric cycle trailer. It was designed by Manyone Design. The company launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo where it reached the funding goal in just a few hours.

The company went bankrupt in August 2022, after millions in losses, with a debt of DKK 72 million.