It was headed by Vice President of Manufacturing Hoppy Brooks, in his attempt to market bike frames. Skip Hess started BMX Products, Inc. out of his home in Simi Valley, California in September 1974 with mongoose kids bike his first product being the well-known Motomag One wheel. In its early years Hess recalled that about 600 frames per day had been produced at its Chatsworth, Los Angeles location.
Brunswick bought 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 company on the planet will be created, with a combined revenue of around 2.5 billion euro. Mongoose is a brand name of bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and sold by BMX Products, Inc. RECO was a wholly owned manufacturing division created for insurance purposes to be separate from BMX Products, Inc, despite the fact that RECO was always produced in-house.
