It was headed by Vice President of Manufacturing Hoppy Brooks, in his attempt to market motorbike frames. Skip Hess started BMX Products, Inc. out of his house in Simi Valley, California in September 1974 together mongoose hybrid bike with 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 sold Mongoose to Pacific Cycle in 2000 and Pacific Cycle was purchased by Montreal-based Dorel Industries in 2004. By combining Pon.Bike and Dorel Sports, a leading bicycle company in the world shall be created, with a combined income of around 2.5 billion euro. Mongoose is a brand name of bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and bought by BMX Products, Inc. RECO was a completely owned manufacturing division created for insurance functions to be separate from BMX Products, Inc, although RECO was all the time produced in-house.
