Biomega
A bicycle brand founded in Copenhagen in 1998, known for city bikes drawn by designers from outside the bicycle trade, among them Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove and Bjarke Ingels.
- Founded
- 1998
- Founded by
- Jens Martin Skibsted and Elias Grove Nielsen
Pictures © Biomega, from biomega.co.
Why it is renowned
Biomega bicycles are in the design collections of MoMA and SFMOMA,12 and of Die Neue Sammlung in Munich, the French CNAP and Design Museum Denmark.3 The brand is known for commissioning international designers from outside the bicycle industry, including Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid and Bjarke Ingels, and it made bicycles with Puma under the name Urban Mobility.3 The OKO electric bike won a Good Design Award in 2016.2
The story
Jens Martin Skibsted and Elias Grove Nielsen, who had studied together, founded Biomega in 1998.3 Marc Newson's MN bicycle, with a frame of superplastic-formed aluminium, and Skibsted's shaft-drive CPH came out in 2000; the AMS followed in 2002.3 The company that held the licence went bankrupt in 2022, and in 2024 Skibsted bought the brand back and launched the BER electric bike.3 Biomega has since been reborn in the United States, and the BER is its first bike for the American market.24 Skibsted designs it: he designs with and co-owns Manyone, a design company based in Copenhagen.24
Works
BER An aluminium electric commuter bike with a belt drive and the battery hidden in the frame, weighing 17 kg with its battery.
OKO Biomega's first electric bike, with a carbon-fibre frame that housed its battery, designed by the Copenhagen studio KiBiSi.
CPH Jens Martin Skibsted's first bicycle design: a shaft-drive aluminium city bike Biomega launched in 2000.
AMS Jens Martin Skibsted's city bike for Biomega, launched in 2002 and later also made in an electric version.
MN Marc Newson's bicycle for Biomega with a frame of superplastic-formed aluminium, launched in 2000 and no longer made.
LDN A carbon-fibre bike Ross Lovegrove designed for Biomega, built only as a few prototypes.
What to know it by
- MN32000discontinuedMarc NewsonFrame of superplastic-formed aluminium
- CPH32000discontinuedJens Martin SkibstedShaft-drive city bike
- AMS32002discontinuedCity bike, later also electric
- LDN5discontinuedRoss LovegroveCarbon-fibre bike; only a few prototypes
- OKO32015discontinuedFirst electric bike
- BER32024Aluminium electric commuter bike
Sources
- Biomega | MoMA. moma.org, read 30 September 2026.
- About Biomega. biomega.co, read 5 October 2026.
- Biomega (bicycle company), Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 28 September 2026.
- The new BER e-bike keeps the battery out of sight, Fast Company. fastcompany.com, read 5 October 2026.
- History, Biomega (archived copy of 2015-05-09). web.archive.org, read 7 October 2026.
Checked 7 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.