Brunswick sold 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 number one bicycle company on the planet shall be created, with a mixed revenue of around 2.5 billion euro. Mongoose is a model name of bicycles originally mongoose mountain bicycles designed, manufactured, and sold by BMX Products, Inc. RECO was a wholly owned manufacturing division created for insurance coverage purposes to be separate from BMX Products, Inc, although RECO was at all times produced in-house.
It was headed by Vice President of Manufacturing Hoppy Brooks, in his try 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 were produced at its Chatsworth, Los Angeles location.