It was headed by Vice President of Manufacturing Hoppy Brooks, in his attempt to market bike frames. Skip Hess began BMX Products, Inc. out of his residence in Simi Valley, California in September 1974 along with mongoose hybrid bike his first product being the famous Motomag One wheel. In its early years Hess recalled that about 600 frames per day were produced at its Chatsworth, Los Angeles location.
Brunswick sold Mongoose to Pacific Cycle in 2000 and Pacific Cycle was bought by Montreal-based Dorel Industries in 2004. By combining Pon.Bike and Dorel Sports, a leading bicycle firm on the planet shall be created, with a mixed income of around 2.5 billion euro. Mongoose is a model name of bicycles originally mongoose hybrid bike designed, manufactured, and offered by BMX Products, Inc. RECO was a completely owned manufacturing division created for insurance coverage functions to be separate from BMX Products, Inc, despite the actual fact that RECO was all the time produced in-house.