Ahead since ‘91 – the milestones
From the past into the future.
If your roots lie in racing, you adopt a simple philosophy: Push and drive until you reach the finish – in winning position. Here, you can read everything about STEVENS. Find out what we think, where we came from and what we did so far.
1990
The Company
The year of the headstone
The brand STEVENS is established. One part of the business is the wholesale of premium-brands (e.g. Merlin Titan, Ritchey, Shimano, Campagnolo, and many more). The other part of the business is very future-orientated: STEVENS MTBs and trekking bikes are launched.
1991
The Company
The year of the double-premiere
The first collection of STEVENS bikes is shown on the very first Eurobike (the most important bike fair).
1992
The Bikes
Stylish in black
"Black Edition" - the first STEVENS MTB range in pure black. Highlight: "Alu Comp XT."
Racing
The year of being „pretty in pink“.
The pink squad a.k.a. the Merlin-STEVENS Race Team. Fast and successful in the MTB and Cyclocross-world.
1993
The Company
10,000 Bikes
We deliver the 10.000th STEVENS bike. Now we sell to 4 Countries with the help of more than 1,000 retailers, thereof 44 STEVENS bases.
1994
Society
Bike-Cops: allways at your service
The Police of Lower Saxony - and later on also patrols in Hamburg and Canada - are equipped with fast STEVENS MTB's.
1995
The Bikes
The year of being fast
Engineering and producing high quality STEVENS race bikes. Here you see the first racer with alloy-frame, named RPR 1. Classical steel-frames are exclusively manufactured in Italy.
The year of a dream
A Star is born. Racebike STEVENS Star - the first ever STEVENS Racebike – becomes test winner in magazine “Tour” comparison test.
1996
The Company
The year of the big deal
In the poll of the „Zweirad-Magazin“, we were voted on the second place.
The Bikes
The best year so far
Magazine tests praise the STEVENS MTBs 7.1.2. and 8.1.2. as "Honcho bike of the test" und "Hot Bike and Best deal".
The year of being early
The early bird catches the worm - and all attention. No one ever launched the mid-season-models like our STEVENS 4.1.2.
1997
Racing
The year of professional support
STEVENS becomes the main-sponsor of a pro-team, the "Team Cologne". The pro-riders Andreas Kappes and Sascha Henrix experience velocity on their STEVENS bikes.
The Company
The year of best image
The “bike” readers vote
Rank 1 in among all brands: price-quality ratio
Rank 1 among all German brands: brand image
The Bikes
The year of going uphill
The magazine „Mountain BIKE“ voted the STEVENS MTB 6.5.2. as the “Mountainbike of the year”.
1998
The Bikes
The year of two “best bikes”.
“Bike of the year” – STEVENS MTB 6.5.2. (Magazine “BIKE”)
“Bike of the year” – STEVENS MTB 7.5.2. (Magazine “Mountain BIKE”)
1999
The Company
The year of expansion
Our company grew, so we had to move into another buidling. To have enough space for our employees and for our bikes. In the eastern part of Hamburg, we found the perfect place.
The Bikes
The year of the STEVENS 5.5.2
“Bike of the year” – STEVENS MTB 5.5.2. (Magazine “BIKE”)
“Bike of the year” – STEVENS MTB 5.5.2. (Magazine “Mountain BIKE”)
2000
The Company
The year of best quality
STEVENS bikes are assembled in Germany by maximum qualified mechanics. We simply want the best for our bikes – and our clients.
The Bikes
The year of losing weight.
Introduction of the new STEVENS F9 Suspension model. One of the lightest Bikes in its category at the IFMA show 2000.
2001
Racing
The year of losing no time
Supporting pro-triathlete Ralf Eggert with the STEVENS Izoard Pro Aero-machine. Very successful – he finished 17th in Hawaii, became 4th at the Roth-challenge.
2002
Society
There is a lot to tell about STEVENS
"STEVENS - the Hero". Author Matthias Altenburg writes about his favourite bike - the STEVENS F9 - he has a lot to tell about it, so the article appears on a full page in the Financial Times. From now on, STEVENS bikes appear more and more in articles and books of this author.
The Company
The year of thinking really big
Launching the road custom programme. It is the biggest kit of the bike-scene.
The Bikes
Bikes of the year: once gold plus twice bronze
It's a distinct conclusion: Readers of the Mag “Mountain Bike” voted the STEVENS M7 Race as “Bike of the year”. But the M6 and the F9 were not bad too. They rank third.
2003
Racing
The year of a lost bet that brings success.
Jens Schwedler has given up his biker-career. But one day, he called Volker Dohrmann, the STEVENS brand-manager. Jens said that he wanted to start at the German championships. Volker made a bet out of that. „Jens, if you will be under the top 3, STEVENS will produce cyclocross-bikes“. Jens has won the race, and STEVENS has won the market-leadership. This story is true. Really.
The year of the world champion
Cyclocross Worldchampion Daphny van den Brand gave us an autograph – she signed a contract as a STEVENS rider.
2004
Racing
The olympic year
Andreas Raelert, Germanys top-triathlet, reaches rank 6 at the Olympic Games in Athens. He was riding the STEVENS Vuelta (in the Athens-signature-design).
The Bikes
The year of the judgement
The STEVENS Jazz Trekking Bike wins the prestigeous “Stiftung Warentest” yearly bike test. For us, it´s as much worth as an Olympic gold medal and the world-chamipionships.
2005
Racing
The year of “everbody wants to have a piece of success”
More and more professional athletes (pro-riders, triathletes and race-teams) ride on our STEVENS “time trial” bike.
The year of the champions
Reaching for the top and therefore founding the STEVENS cyclocross pro team with 4 national champions.
The Company
The year of being very attractive
STEVENS is voted as the "most attractive bike brand in Germany".
2006
The Bikes
The year of perfect engineering
Presentation of a new series of full suspension bikes: Thomas Kamm develops STEVENS Fluent and Glide models. The bike-scene loves these models.
The Company
The year of repeat
STEVENS is voted as the "most attractive bike brand in Germany". Again.
2007
Racing
The year of success
Daniel Unger and Lisa Norden become triathlon world champions. They ride STEVENS bikes. Lisa rides the STEVENS SCF1, Daniel Unger rides the STEVENS SLC Team.
The Company
The year of “oops, we did it again”
STEVENS is voted as the "most attractive bike brand in Germany". Three times in a row. WOW!
2008
Racing
The year of velocity
Amber Neben (USA) wins the worldchampionship in time trial on her STEVENS Crono TT.
The Company
The most attractive year
STEVENS is voted as the "most attractive bike brand" - reader survey magazine "Trekking Bike". This is very important for us, because we put our heart and our soul in our trekking bikes.
2009
The Bikes
The year of aerodynamics
Introducing the windtunnel-tested time trial machine STEVENS Volt. Highly engineered, optimized aerodynamics, and fully integrated design. The Volt is made for success. Shown on the EUROBIKE.
Racing
The year of “going straight through”
STEVENS is the most successful brand at the cyclocross world championships. Niels Albert and Philipp Walsleben become world champions. And Hanka Kupfernagel, the „Grande Dame of cycling“ (8 times world chamipon, 33 national titles), gets the cyclocross world cup.
The Company
The year of a real milestone
The STEVENS "Xenith" - is rated as the "lightest trekking bike on the world". And wins the EUROBIKE´s "milestone of the year" (An award comparable with the "oscar").
2010
Racing
The year of confirmation
And again, STEVENS is the most successful brand at the cyclocross world championships. Arnaud Jouffroy and Marianne Vos become world champions.
The Company
The year of going the right way
STEVENS is voted as the most popular trekkingbike-brand in Germany. (Thank you again, readers of the magazine "Trekkingbike")
Additionally STEVENS is voted as Germanys "best bike supplier" (SAZ).
The Bikes
The innovative year
STEVENS gets the IF Eurobike Award for the innovative carbon-roadframe STEVENS Ventoux. But alloy is also pretty successful: The STEVENS Vuelta wins many tests – as the lightest serially alloy-frame.
2011
Racing
The year of triple-success
Marianne Vos becomes cyclocross- AND track world champion on STEVENS bikes. AND she is world cup- leader in Road Racing (may 2011).
The Bikes
Full power – the STEVENS Pedelecs.
There´s no mobility concepts of the future without STEVENS. In this year, STEVENS starts its own Pedelec-Program. Therefore, a completely new frame-concept is developed: The STEVENS E-Randonneur. It contains maximum stiffness, maxium driving-fun and the lowest centre of gravity.
The Company
The year of confirmation
STEVENS is voted as Germanys "best bike supplier" (SAZ). Again. Incredible.
