32 Facts About Markus Storck

Markus Storck is a German bicycle designer and developer, known for creating the lightest racing bike fork in the world, made of carbon fiber, and the first ever carbon fiber bicycle crank.

Markus Storck is the managing director and founder of Storck Bicycle, designer, and innovator, and his current developments hold the world record lightness and stiffness to weight ratios.

Markus Storck comes from a long lineage of bicyclists and bike racers.

Markus Storck's great, great-grandfather joined a cycling club in 1876 and was a member for over 25 years.

Markus Storck started biking at an early age and competed in his first road race at six.

Markus Storck founded Storck Bike-tech GmbH in 1989 and Storck Bike-tech, Inc in the US in 1992, and in 1995 rebranded the company under the name "Storck Bicycle".

In 1990, Markus Storck traveled to Japan to study under bicycle master frame-builder and founder of Toyo, Yoshiaki Ishigaki.

Markus Storck learned to work with steel, titanium, aluminum, and magnesium to build custom bike frames, which later led to his carbon fiber innovations.

Markus Storck went on to engineer and develop the world's first ever carbon fiber bicycle crank in 1992, which started selling in 1993.

In 1995, Markus Storck began the design and manufacturing of aluminum frame bicycles in Portland, Oregon with the assistance of Kinesis USA, a subsidiary of Kinesis Industry, and in 1996, Dutch mountain bicyclist Bart Brentjens won the gold medal at the first cross-country mountain bike race of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, on a mountain bike of Markus Storck's design collaboration with Hercules, Schauff, and American Eagle.

Markus Storck's innovations using Vacuum Void Controlled production technology allowed him to reduce the resin content of the high-grade carbon bicycle frames by a third, allowing his future designs to have lighter, stiffer frames, while maintaining comfort and stability.

Between 1997 and 2017, Markus Storck has designed and produced over 100 bicycles, including road bikes, cross- and triathlon bikes, mountain bikes, and hybrids.

In 2008, Markus Storck opened up the first Markus Storck brand store in Korea followed by stores in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, UK, Switzerland.

In 1990, together with his friend Erich Reiss, Markus Storck founded the Eurobike show, a bicycle trade fair which has grown from 268 international exhibitors to over 1,000.

In 2005, Markus Storck was a jury member of the Materialica Design Awards in Munich.

In 2015, Markus Storck partnered with Rehau to design a new eBike concept for the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, called nam:e: In 2016, he received the JEC Innovation Award and in 2017, the German Design Award for nam:e:.

Markus Storck collaborated on the design and incorporated carbon fiber into all of the designs.

Together with his wife Helena Markus Storck, they founded the "One of Seven GmbH" in order to further continue similar projects.

Markus Storck worked with McLaren to use their own carbon fiber parts, so every part is able to be replaced from the factory.

Markus Storck teamed up with Blac to create custom carbon sunglasses.

Markus Storck next teamed up with Rolex to create an individually designed Blaken watch.

Markus Storck teamed up with the Q division of Aston Martin to create a new version of the Vanquish, using black satin paint and adding in carbon fiber to much of the vehicle.

In 1997, Markus Storck entered his Adrenalin "fully" bicycle in the Red Dot competition for design and won first place.

In 1999, Markus Storck won the design competition again, this time for the Markus Storck "Organic" mountain bike.

In 1999, Markus Storck launched the "Stiletto Light" road bike fork, which weighed 280 grams and was the test winner of Tour bike magazine.

In 2016, Markus Storck Bicycle received the German Brand Award for outstanding brand communication.

In 2017, Markus Storck received German Design Award awards for his Rehau collaboration eBike "nam:e:," the Adrenic Platinum mountain bike, and the Fascenario.

In 2018, Markus Storck won three German Design Awards for their Aernario Pro, Rebel Nine Pro and Fascenario.

In 2021, Markus Storck won the Red Dot Award for their name:2 and the European product design award, International Design Award in Gold, German Design Award for their new innovation Cyklaer, which is a new project resulting from a collaboration with Porsche digital, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG that serves as its digital competence center.

Markus Storck Bikes was able to win a number of Public Choice Awards like the Velomotion User Voting 2022 for the best "Highend Roadbike" Aerfast.

Markus Storck is oftentimes speaking about the development of the brand and marketing, the delevlopment of carbon bikes, his sportslife and interest, as well as about business development in times of change.

Markus Storck has been married to his wife Helena for twenty years.