![Kind auf einem E-Bike mit Sicherheitsausrüstung im Freien](https://cdn02.plentymarkets.com/81wbj19xlzoj/frontend/content/ueberuns/ben-e-bike-ueber-uns-kind-im-bikepark.jpg)
About us
How the whole story started...
Until July 2014 Robin's (the founder of ben-e-bike) perception of bicycles seemed to be "normal" - everyone in his family had a conventional bike and those "new-fashioned" pedelecs were only known from hearsay. The first test drive with a totally unspectecular "City E-bike" changed everything and the pedelec mania took its course!.
Just 14 days after this "experience" Robin bought his first E-bike, less than three weeks passed by until his wife was biking electrically assisted as well.
You can imagine what happened next - his son Ben pronounced in a remonstrative manner that he won't make anymore bike trips with them.
Try to explain to your child why you ride e-bikes for more convenient mobility while they have to pedal non-assisted. That's really a challenge!
Robin had to find a solution for that problem - but unfortunately there were no pedelecs available at that time that have been designed for kids.
So it was up to him to fill that "gap" - that was the day when the idea of the ben-e-bike was born, named after our CTDO (Chief Test Drive Officer) Ben who's now already ten years old.
Our team
Steffen
Managing director
![Steffen](https://cdn02.plentymarkets.com/81wbj19xlzoj/frontend/content/ueberuns/ben-e-bike-portrait-steffen.jpg)
Alex
Managing director
![Alex](https://cdn02.plentymarkets.com/81wbj19xlzoj/frontend/content/ueberuns/ben-e-bike-portrait-alex.jpg)
Ben
"CTDO" (Chief Test Drive Officer)
Test driver and eponym of our brand
![Ben](https://cdn02.plentymarkets.com/81wbj19xlzoj/frontend/content/ueberuns/ben-e-bike-portrait-ben.jpg)
Josefine
Test driver "alpin"
![Josefine](https://cdn02.plentymarkets.com/81wbj19xlzoj/frontend/content/ueberuns/ben-e-bike-portrait-josefin.jpg)
Elias
Test driver
![Elias](https://cdn02.plentymarkets.com/81wbj19xlzoj/frontend/content/ueberuns/ben-e-bike-portrait-elias.jpg)
Development and assembly in Germany
Even if most of the parts for the ben-e-bikes are sourced in Far East, the whole development and the final assembly takes place in Germany. By no means this is the job of a subcontractor who is focused on high volumes. On the opposite - all ben-e-bikes are carefully made in a small bike manufacture in the south of Germany / Baden-Wuerttemberg.
For each single bike exists a comprehensive inspection protocol that records every important step during production.
So you may rest assured that every ben-e-bike is shipped in simply perfect condition.