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.
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29 Facts About Storck Bicycle
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Storck Bicycle 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.
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Storck Bicycle comes from a long lineage of bicyclists and bike racers.
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Storck Bicycle's great, great-grandfather joined a cycling club in 1876 and was a member for over 25 years.
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Storck Bicycle started biking at an early age and competed in his first road race at six.
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Storck Bicycle 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".
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In 1990, Storck traveled to Japan to study under bicycle master frame-builder and founder of Toyo, Yoshiaki Ishigaki.
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Storck Bicycle learned to work with steel, titanium, aluminum, and magnesium to build custom bike frames, which later led to his carbon fiber innovations.
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In 1995, 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 Storck's design collaboration with Hercules, Schauff, and American Eagle.
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Between 1997 and 2017, Storck has designed and produced over 100 bicycles, including road bikes, cross- and triathlon bikes, mountain bikes, and hybrids.
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In 2008, Storck Bicycle opened up the first Storck Bicycle brand store in Korea followed by stores in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, UK, Switzerland.
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In 2005, Storck Bicycle was a jury member of the Materialica Design Awards in Munich.
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In 2015, Storck Bicycle 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:.
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Storck Bicycle collaborated on the design and incorporated carbon fiber into all of the designs.
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Together with his wife Helena Storck Bicycle, they founded the "One of Seven GmbH" in order to further continue similar projects.
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Storck Bicycle worked with McLaren to use their own carbon fiber parts, so every part is able to be replaced from the factory.
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Storck Bicycle teamed up with Blac to create custom carbon sunglasses.
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Storck Bicycle next teamed up with Rolex to create an individually designed Blaken watch.
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Storck Bicycle 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.
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In 1997, Storck entered his Adrenalin "fully" bicycle in the Red Dot competition for design and won first place.
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In 1999, Storck Bicycle won the design competition again, this time for the Storck Bicycle "Organic" mountain bike.
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In 1999, Storck Bicycle launched the "Stiletto Light" road bike fork, which weighed 280 grams and was the test winner of Tour bike magazine.
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In 2016, Storck Bicycle received the German Brand Award for outstanding brand communication.
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In 2017, Storck Bicycle received German Design Award awards for his Rehau collaboration eBike "nam:e:, " the Adrenic Platinum mountain bike, and the Fascenario.
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In 2018, Storck Bicycle won three German Design Awards for their Aernario Pro, Rebel Nine Pro and Fascenario.
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In 2021, Storck Bicycle 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.
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Storck Bicycle Bikes was able to win a number of Public Choice Awards like the Velomotion User Voting 2022 for the best "Highend Roadbike" Aerfast.
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Storck Bicycle 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.
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Markus Storck Bicycle has been married to his wife Helena for twenty years.
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