Who we are!

Flevobike is a family business consisting of 5 people: father (Johan), mother (Hendrika) and three sons (Arjan, Erwin and André). These 5 people make Flevobike Technology VOF.

It all started when Johan had a job as a teacher of mechanical engineering. In order to travel the 20 kilometres distance between his home (Dronten) and the school he was working at (Lelystad) Johan first used a racing bike. He had read bits and pieces in a Dutch bike magazine about a reclining bicycle. It seemed to him a reclining bicycle was a much better and much more comfortable way to travel the distance between his house and his work than the racing bike. As a teacher of mechanical engineering, he had the opportunity to make his very own reclining bicycles.

Ready for a trip (André, Hendrika and Johan)

It didn't take long before colleagues and acquaintances started asking for information about this rather unusual bike. They really liked this peculiar bike and asked Johan if he could build one for them. When Johan received a phone call from someone who wanted to buy a Flevobike while teaching one of his classes, he decided that he couldn't continue that way any longer.

Johan decided to start his own company in 1989. He started off working on his bikes at night, but soon that wasn't enough anymore. Soon there was too much work to be done by just one person. Erwin, Johan’s second son, helped out by welding the bikes in the evenings. But even then the capacity was too low to handle all the work they had to do. Somebody else was needed. This person turned out to be André, Johan's youngest son. By that time Johan had started to take more days off from his teaching job, so he could spend more time on fabricating the Flevobike. Two months later, Erwin started working at Flevobike fulltime.

The production of the Flevobike increasing and so was the turnover. In the meantime, the model was modified and improved on some points. Hendrika, Johan's wife, was doing more and more things for Flevobike also. About eighteen months after Erwin got his job at Flevobike, Arjan, Johan's oldest son, also started working for Flevobike.

Arjan in a Versatile                                   André in a Versatile