NEWS

Loose, familiar, crazy, fast and feral – our PROPAIN Positive Team 2024! With the addition of the new French rider, Gaetan Vige, they’ve expanded their crew and they all share one common goal: to make the 2024 World Cup season the best one yet.

We are closing a significant gap in our growing e-bike lineup: With the Sresh CF, we are launching a lightweight short*er travel e-bike with a lively and playful ride feel all while delivering full e-power.

Check out their latest video featuring Marius, Batze, David, Vali, Stefan, and Fibi from the Los Hackos Crew!

We are excited to share this amazing project by polish Rider Kacper Mietka filmed together with his brother Filip Mietka and MXM Media.

The PROPAIN Friends Event took place again this year. From October 12th to October 15th, over 60 PROPAIN Friends gathered in the beautiful Val Venosta in southern Tirol and enjoyed an unforgettable end to the season together with the PROPAIN crew.

Red Bull Rampage 2023 was an event in a class of its own. This year two of our athletes took part and both proved in different ways why they belong to the best freeriders in the world. But let’s start from the beginning.

We present: Our first carbon E-Bike, developed together with the SRAM Eagle Powertrain to achieve the perfect symbiosis.

On October 13, the best freeriders in the world will meet again in Virgin, Utah, and this year two of our athletes, Carson Storch and Clemens Kaudela, will compete in the most extreme event of the year. In this article you will find out with which bikes the two will start and we take a look at the custom painted frames.

Our first carbon e-bike, developed together with the SRAM Eagle Powertrain, to create the perfect symbiosis. Sign up now for our newsletter and be the first to hear about the launch of our new e-bike.

Our goal for the new EKANO 2 AL was clear: A performance mountain bike which is THE absolute fun machine on every climb and descent. The handling of the E-Freerider was our first priority in the development. The bike should really feel at home on the “big stuff” without conveying in any way the otherwise accustomed unwieldiness of E-Bikes.

For the launch of our new EKANO 2 AL we asked Phil Atwill between his World Cup Races whether he wants to swing a leg over our new E-MTB and ride a few laps in the bike park Schladming. Phil didn’t hesitate one second and jumped on the bike.

This video is about something very special for our athlete Clemens Kaudela: building and sending the biggest drop he has ever jumped to date in Utah. You can find the video and the story of how it happened here.

The Tyee is a modern enduro bike that combines all aspects of riding. Whether it’s singletrack excursions, bike park laps, or enduro racing, the Tyee is the ideal companion in any situation. This multi-part video series showcases the versatility of the newest iteration of our award winning enduro bike.

We are stoked to announce that we updated our UK pricing model to include VAT and Import Duty in the price you see on our website. The United Kingdom is a key market for us and we’re more then happy that we’re now able to offer this pricing model to our UK customers.

The Tyee is the golden ratio, the perfect balance within our product range, our flagship – the „chief“. The last evolution of the enduro has started a new era. With multiple test wins and numerous races won, the bike caught a lot of attention. With the development of the new Tyee, we were faced with one crucial question:

How do we make this bike even better?

We are very pleased to introduce our new kids bikes. The biggest innovation is the Barney, a new 16″ singlespeed kids mountain bike. The successful 20″ models Dreckspatz and Frechdax were also renewed from scratch.

Choose your frame size, your color and your components and save 1000 € on your desired configuration.

Steep descents, epic jumps, and huge turns – that’s what the French bike parks are known for and that’s exactly what the LosHackos crew didn’t want to miss last summer. Cameras packed, bikes loaded and off they went on their road trip. Watch the edit now!

Customize your dream Tyee now and save up to 500€ on complete bikes and 20% on framesets!

Freeride Fiesta, the first big freeride event of the season, took place earlier this month in sunny Guadalajara, Mexico. From Rampage veterans and slopestyle stars to 14-year-old youngsters, over 70 riders from all over the world were represented. With a unique atmosphere, a huge jump line, and of course lots of partying, this event is a great change from the usual contest format.

Hailing from Argentina and currently residing in Aspen Colorado, Cami Nogueira is rapidly becoming a household name. Known for big sends and an aggressive approach to technical, steep descents, it’s no surprise that Cami has found her way to the top of the freeride mountain biking scene.

It was finally time again: The PROPAIN Friends event could take place after a long Corona-related break! From September 30th to October 3rd, more than 80 PROPAIN Friends gathered in the beautiful Vinschgau Valley in South Tyrol and enjoyed an unforgettable end-of-season together with the PROPAIN crew.

Red Bull Rampage 2022 is over and it was an honor for us to be part of this extraordinary event for the first time. We want to review the past two weeks and tell you what Carson Storch experienced during his eighth Rampage.

For the first time ever a PROPAIN bike will be part of the Red Bull Rampage and will be ridden by none other than Carson Storch. All information about his very special bike can be found here!

Luke Meier-Smith raced five of the eight stops in the EWS on his Tyee CF and won every single race he entered! He dominated the U21 category like no other and rewarded his successful season with the title.

The 2022 World Cup season is over and after two years of postponed and changed races, a completely normal season was possible again. With eight World Cups and the World Championships, there were many very exciting moments.

After turbulent weeks at PROPAIN, we would like to give you another update today, this time with lots of good news.

The stylish freerider Carson Storch from the USA is a welcome bike colleague in the scene and a big mountain bike idol especially in North America.

With the Bam Bam, we add a 14″ push bike to our Kids Bike Range, offering kids the perfect introduction to the exciting world of cycling.

The Propain Factory Racing Team has an exciting season ahead! This year the team will be at all World Cup stops to support three of the best downhill riders. We are happy to announce the line-up for this year.

Some time ago we already told you that we will also be active in the USA and set up an independent office there in order to be able to serve the US market directly on site. Now we have gained new active support with two well-known athletes in the USA.

A long-awaited expansion of the PROPAIN product family is launched. A bike that many of our athletes, employees and last but not least our customers have been waiting for: Our new Jump Bike – The PROPAIN Trickshot.

Some of you may already know the Ruso Brothers from the last video Selfmade 2.0 with our athlete Clemens Kaudela. In this edit you will see immediately what the two brothers are capable of. Daniel and Elias Ruso are a brother duo, which has never been seen before in the freeride mountain bike scene. Big jumps and even bigger tricks are their metier.

Jono Jones has long been known in the downhill scene. He has been at Downhill World Cups since 2012 and competed in almost every race in the following years. On the side, Jono completed an engineering degree…

Last year was another year full of challenges, and we will continue to face them in 2022.

As 2021 comes to an end, we look back on a very thrilling year and exciting things to come in 2022!
Right at the beginning of the year we have added to our stable with the launch of the new Hugene.The first impression of how our year will run for PROPAIN – It’s going to be crazy and huge!

Last year Clemens Kaudela caused a sensation with the project “Selfmade”. This year, he followed up with Selfmade 2.0. “It’s time to build new crazy stuff”, he said.

The 2021 World Cup season is over, so it’s time to look back at a very exciting year for our Propain Factory Racing Team. While many races were cancelled the year before, almost all races could take place again in 2021. This year the season consisted of a total of six different stops of the Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup and the World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy.

After the 2020 season was more or less a “no season” with only one official race for the kids, everyone was more than ready and super motivated to finally start the 2021 season.

The wait was worth it…

It is no longer a secret that our Rage is getting an update – it has already been widely reported and hotly debated. We are now pleased to officially introduce the 6th generation of the Rage CF…

As one of the first mountain bike manufacturers who has dedicated so extensively to the kids segment, we are very proud to present the third generation of the Yuma. Our goal was and still is to build a kids mountain bike that is in no way inferior to the big ones.

From May 19 – May 28, Darkfest 2021 took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The event, organised by Sam Reynolds, is the perfect platform for the best freeriders from all over the world to push their limits. We are very proud that C-Dog aka Clemens Kaudela was part of it.

It’s been a while since our last statement in the beginning of this year. We’re issuing another statement today and we’re sad to announce that once again, we don’t have great news for you. We would therefore like to give you some insight into our internal processes today. 

The dudes from Los Hackos crew actually wanted to make a big road trip through Southern Europe last summer. But then, something called “corona” crossed the plans. Due to traveling regulations, they ended up in Freiburg, one of the mountain bike hot spots in Southwest Germany. The whole crew has never been there, so they enjoyed exploring the awesome trails of Freiburg. The result is a nice little “autumn edit”.

An exciting season lies ahead of us here at Propain Factory Racing. We have young Luke Meier-Smith moving up into elite to join his team mates George Brannigan and Henry Kerr. Alongside this we have a new junior male!

2020 has likely been the craziest and most unpredictable year the bike industry has ever experienced. The increasing demand for bicycles hit all global markets and is still causing extreme delays in the supply chain worldwide. Making it hard for manufacturers in the bike industry to keep up with their promised delivery dates.

Tour, Trail, Allmountain? What now? The new Hugene is the answer. A bike with 140-150 mm of travel that always fits. Whether it is a quick trail loop, an all-day tour or even an alpine cross. The Hugene is a summiteer on the uphills and a rocket on the downhills. One bike to rule them all!

If you have not heard of Rémy Métailler already, you have probably missed something in your life or must be living on the moon. No, even if you live on the moon, you would have seen his massive jumps in the Whistler Bikepark from up there. With his insane skills on the bike, he is just a pleasure to watch and the perfect match for PROPAIN.

Welcome on Board, Rémy!

After two years away from us, the manual and style master himself will return to PROPAIN as a free athlete running his own program. His main focus will be UCI World Cups, video projects and other events along the way.

We would have loved to see these bikes on the World Cup Circuit – unfortunately, this only happened to a limited extent. In collaboration with our partner RS Farbroller these beauties were created: Three custom painted Rage CF for our World Cup rider George Brannigan.

Three wishes all at once?
“Sure, Grisons – endless trails with access to mountain railways, in a narrow area.”
“Nah, it must be nature experience, loneliness and outdoor adventure!”
“Well, everything sounds good, but please no 1500 m uphill again…”

Clemens’ idea behind this project was as simple as it can be: He wanted to have a training setup at home for his big bike so he can do all his tricks and basically his favorite type of riding: going BIG!

We are very happy to announce Atlantic Cycling as our exclusive partner and PROPAIN Test Center. As of now you will be able to rent our bikes there and test it on the diverse trails of the Canarian Island!

The Bikepark of Verbier is one of the top three favorite places of George Brannigan. But that’s no wonder, it is perfectly adapted to his riding style. Jumps over gaps and rocks, berms and root passages. And all this with a bike on which he feels super comfortable – it doesn’t get much better than this. Convince yourself with this shredit in old Brannigan manner. Have fun!

After having already built up our Hugene, Gee Milner has now devoted himself to our new Tyee. In an almost melancholic video, our Enduro bike is being assembled part by part with a lot of passion.

Actually, the kids from our Propain Talent Factory wanted to step their game up in 2020 and build on the good results of the previous year. Several training camps were planned for preparation, the race dates were marked in the calendar and all were “ready to go”! But everything turned out differently than planned.

In a quite unique season most racing events were cancelled so far. But naturally our Propain Factory Enduro team kept themselves busy and in shape for the first race that would come. And boy, what a weekend it was in eastern Europe!

Originally our guys from the Propain Factory Racing Team would have been in the middle of the racing season and hit the World Cup DH tracks at high speed – but the global lockdown unfortunately prevented this. Get some updates regarding the team here.

We are responding to the demands of US customers to start distributing our coveted customized mountain bikes in North America.

We are very excited to announce the Bikepark Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis as exclusive partner with immediate effect. In the coming season you will be able to test our complete bike range on all tracks!

The Propain Factory Racing jumps into 2020 season with the first Training Camp in Lousã. It’s time for the mechanics to unbox brand new race bikes and first time for riders to get the suspension dialed in and find the best setup of the bikes.

At the moment most bike parks unfortunately are closed and take a winter break. At least this is the case here in Europe. On the other side of the world, however, the situation is quite different. In New Zealand it’s high season and the newest member of our Propain Factory Racing Team, George Brannigan, shows us how he spends the summer in his home country.

Our partnership with Rock my Trail has been existing for several years now and meanwhile a close friendship has developed. From 2020 on we want to work even closer with the likeable guys from the “Bergischen Land” and break new grounds together. Read here how it all began and where the journey will go.

Looking at things from a new perspective, being courageous and breaking new grounds, improve and develop yourself, start a new chapter. – That was our vision
for the new Tyee.

We are proud to announce the new line-up for our Propain Factory Racing Team!

We are proud to present a new Propain Freeride Athlete for 2020: Clemens Kaudela!

The racing season 2019 is over for the Propain Talent Factory and it was quite successful with one overall win and multiple podiums.

LosHackos Crew went surfing the new Lines of Bikepark Brandertal with their Rage AL. Ready for some Surfing and airtime action? Enjoy this very nice Edit!

For 2020, we have revised the Yuma, Frechdax and Dreckspatz.

Here it is – our Q&;A-Video! Our CEOs David and Robert answered your questions from your social media comments! Have fun watching!

The Rage CF is now also available in a new XL frame size. The raising demand for longer DH bikes continues and especially in combination with the larger 29” wheel this really makes sense. So we decided to fill this gap in our lineup of DH bikes

The EKANO is a Propain MTB through and through, even with “E” inside. It’s probably the most multifarious E-MTB which shows its strength in all disciplines.

The Chief presents itself in new guise. Various changes on the Tyee promise to make it an even greater and more reliable ride than ever before.

We redesigned the Rage Alloy to be a simple, sturdy, and robust downhill bike which focuses on reduced needs for maintenance whilst still delivering maximum performance for the high speeds and big hits that a park bike has to take.

5 years after his last video edit and with little to no time on a bike since, Ben Reid is now back on the big screen and whipping up a lot of dust and smoke!

The Chief presents itself in new guise. Various changes on the Tyee promise to make it an even greater and more reliable ride than ever before.

The Spindrift has blossomed into a guarantor of success and has been very popular amongst fans thanks to its versatility. For 2019 this bike has had a number of updates now making it even better!

HUGENE is our interpretation of the perfect trailbike. A bike that flies up mountains with ease and puts a fat smile on your face on the way back down.