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Hi, Nate Taylor here. Please reach out to me at nate@sscycleworks.com for inquiries on parts availabilities and shipping estimates.

Mongoose: We currently have no mongoose bikes for sale

On this page: Information about Mongoose, but we have no Mongoose bikes for sale at this monent.

Mongoose has come along way since Skip Hess started casting Motomag BMX wheels in Chatsworth, California in 1974. Soon, he was Tig-welding Mongoose BMX frames out of chrome-moly in his Chatsworth factory. At its peak Mongoose was welding up 600 frames a day. And they were very well-made.

In the mid-1980s Hess sold Mongoose (owned by his BMX Products company). Since then the firm has changed hands a couple of times. Currently (2108) Mongoose is owned by Dorel industries.

Mongoose produces a wide range of product. Some of it is made for department stores and some is high-end specialty-shop production.

Among the special high-end bikes Mongoose has sold were Titanium mountain bikes. They were not only made of Sandvik custom-drawn 3AL/2.5V titanium tubing, they were made by Sandvik for Mongoose. Sandvik specialized in servicing the nuclear industry. But they needed to do something with the (relatively) small amounts of left-over titanium. The answer was to produce golf club shafts, hockey stick shafts, bicycle tubing and a few bike frames.

Because Sandvik was dialed in to produce super high-end product designed to carry nuclear waste, the overall quality of the titanium sporting goods the company produced was superb. To sell the frames, Sandvik signed a deal with Mongoose to make Mongoose titanium bikes. The same tubing was also sold to other high-end titanium frame builders.

A (sort of) parallel production occurred in Russia. With the loss of nuclear industry component orders, a Russian titanium fabricator began building titanium road frames. They turned out to be simply superb in design, execution and ride. Torelli imported a small number under their brand name and we have a few in stock.