YT Industries

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YT Industries
Company type Private
Industry Bicycles
Founded2006;18 years ago (2006) [1]
Headquarters
Hausen, Upper Franconia, Germany
Key people
Markus Flossmann, Founder & CEO
Website yt-industries.com

YT Industries is a German mountain bike manufacturer. Founded in 2006, the company operates in a direct-to-consumer model. YT also has showrooms at their headquarters in Hausen, Germany, and "YT Mills" in San Clemente, California, and Guildford, Surrey, England, with a third location planned in Bentonville, Arkansas. [2] [3] With its origins in dirt jumping and freeriding, YT has expanded its lineup to include all forms of mountain biking and gravel biking.

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History

YT Industries traces its roots to a marketing company founded in 2006 by Markus Flossman called Sponsoree Deutschland. [1] Flossman and Stefan Willared built and sold their first bike, a dirt jumper, under the Sponsoree name in 2008, and in 2011 the company was renamed YT (Young Talent) Industries. [4]

YT soon moved into mountain bikes, producing the downhill Tues, Wicked enduro bike, and the park-oriented Norton. In 2014, they launched their first carbon fiber bike, the Capra enduro bike. [5] YT expanded their linup with the all-mountain Jeffsy in 2017, [6] the Decoy e-bike in 2019, [7] the Izzo trail bike in 2020, [8] and the Szepter gravel bike in 2022. [9]

In 2021, private equity firm Ardian acquired a majority stake in the company. [10]

Model range

A YT Izzo, photographed in Mobile, Alabama. YT Izzo 2022-08-12.jpg
A YT Izzo, photographed in Mobile, Alabama.

Racing

YT began sponsoring a professional race team, the YT Mob, in 2012 with freerider Andreu Lacondeguy. Cameron Zink joined the squad in 2014; that year, Lacondeguy and Zink finished first and second at Red Bull Rampage. [11] Aaron Gwin won the 2016 & 2017 downhill UCI Mountain Bike World Cup while a member of the YT Mob. [12]

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