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NICOLAI R20 MGU AON Edition: A True Downhill E-Bike
What do you get when you combine an uncompromising 200 mm downhill bike with an e-drive system? The Nicolai R20 MGU AON Edition. Its foundation comes straight from racing: the CNC-machined 7075 aluminium rear end, geometry and kinematics were carried over from the GAMUX Sego DH World Cup bike.
STEPHAN PETER JOINS THE ROTAX BIKE TECHNOLOGY DEALER SUPPORT TEAM
The Rotax Bike Technology dealer support team for the RBT brands Pinion and FIT is now complete. Effective immediately, Stephan Peter is joining the Dealer Support department, led by Hannes Pörtner, and will be responsible for providing in-depth support to bicycle retailers in northern Germany.
ROTAX BIKE TECHNOLOGY BOOSTS THE SPECIALIST RETAIL SECTOR WITH A NEW SUPPORT TEAM
As part of the reorganization under the umbrella of Rotax Bike Technology AG, Pinion and FIT E-Bike Systems are systematically expanding their support for specialty retailers. With a newly formed team, regional representatives will ensure even closer ties with retailers in the future—offering combined product and technology expertise, practical support, and direct on-site assistance.
PRACTICAL, INTERNATIONAL, FUTURE-ORIENTED: FIT AND PINION DRAW POSITIVE CONCLUSION FROM THE 2025/2026 DEALTER TRAINING TOUR
With the successful completion of the FIT X PINION dealer training tour 2025/2026, FIT and Pinion can look back on an intensive and practical training season. Over the past few months, around 1,000 specialist dealers from all over Europe took part in the training courses and prepared themselves specifically for the requirements of selling and servicing modern e-bikes.
TRAINING TOUR STARTS IN A FEW DAYS
PINION and FIT kick off the new training season: With the PINION X FIT dealer training tour 2025/2026, the two partners are once again bringing practical training directly to specialist dealers throughout Europe. A total of 46 dates at 35 locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium are on the agenda.
GRAVELFUN MAGAZINE DEDICATES TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL TO PINION GEARSHIFT TECHNOLOGY
The current issue of GRAVELFUN magazine (02/2025) takes a closer look at our Pinion Smart.Shift technology. In a technology special spanning several pages (pages 24 to 53), the editorial team explains what lies behind the shifting technology and presents the test results of six different gravel bikes equipped with Pinion Smart.Shift.
PINION MGU WINS THE VR INNOVATIONS AWARD
The Pinion MGU, the world's first fully integrated motor gearbox unit for e-bikes, was awarded the Audience Award at the VR INNOVATIONs Award 2025. The award ceremony took place on July 10 as part of the VR Innovation Congress at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in front of over 1,000 guests from the worlds of business, SMEs and finance.
PINION MGU BECOMES PART OF THE NEW MOUNTAIN BIKE EXHIBITION AT THE DEUTSCHES MUSEUM
With the official handover of a Pinion MGU (Motor.Gearbox.Unit) and a Bulls Vuca EVO AM 2 to the Deutsches Museum in Munich, these innovative products from Pinion and Bulls become part of the new mountain biking exhibition set to open in fall 2025. Already now, the MGU and the Vuca EVO AM 2 are on display in the museum's entrance area – as technological highlights and symbols of the future of cycling.
PINION GEARBOXES ARE REVOLUTIONIZING DOWNHILL RACING: NEW PARTNERSHIPS WITH TOP TEAMS AND WORLD-CLASS RIDERS
Pinion, the pioneer of innovative transmission technology in the bicycle sector, is marking another milestone in international racing. In addition to long-standing bike partners Zerode and Gamux in downhill racing, other renowned teams will be competing with newly developed gearbox bikes in the 2025 season. AON Racing, Continental Atherton Racing, Intense Factory Racing and MS Racing will be fighting for every second on the toughest tracks in the world with Pinion gearbox bikes.
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About Pinion GmbH
From Porsche to Pinion
The idea for the Pinion gearbox was born in 2006 at Porsche’s transmission development centre in Weissach, Germany: a bicycle gear shifting system that works as intuitively, precisely, and wear-free as the manual gearbox of a sports car. Five years of development, numerous prototypes and countless hours of test bench trials followed until the first production-ready transmission crossed the Himalayan mountains in 2010…
the summer of 2023, Pinion presented an absolute world premiere: the Pinion E-Drive System with the Motor.Gearbox.Unit (MGU) at its heart. The Pinion MGU is the e-bike technology of the next generation, because it combines motor and gearbox into one unit. Already nine launch partners have installed Pinion’s motor-gearbox unit at launch.
Every Pinion transmission and drive is “Made in Germany” – development, design, engineering, series production, sales and service all take place at the company’s modern headquarters in Denkendorf near Stuttgart. The team comprises over 100 permanent employees. As part of the BRP Group, Pinion stands shoulder to shoulder with globally active companies in the field of e-mobility and powersport products and is actively driving its own internationalization.
Today, more than 100 international bicycle manufacturers rely on Pinion.
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