Starting a bike company in 2026 might seem a little unhinged. The market is still weird. Shops and distributors are still sitting on inventory. Riders have options. And yet here comes Baumier, a new Montreal brand betting that some cyclists still want something built closer to home, with a smaller footprint and a clearer story.
That story starts in Montreal, where Baumier is making its carbon rims, carbon tubes and complete bikes in-house, or as close to in-house as it can manage.
“What makes us different is really the base and the ethos and the vision of Baumier,” said Benjamin Grenon, who handles business development and marketing for the company.
As their marketing material states: “At Baumier, we want to build a high-performance bike that will last for generations. And we want to build a business that is sustainable and transparent, and puts people first.”
Baumier officially launched last year with wheels. Its first complete bike, the Baumier B01, is set to launch April 10.
Made in Montreal, not just assembled there
That local angle is the hook.
Baumier’s wheels are made in Montreal. The frames use 3D-printed titanium lugs and carbon tubes. The tubes are laid up, molded and finished in Montreal. The lugs are still produced in Asia for now, simply because buying a titanium 3D printer is not exactly casual.
“Once we have 2 million dollars to invest in a titanium 3D printing machine, we will make them here,” Grenon said.
Until then, the rest of the work stays local. And unlike most bike companies, the company is pushing a repairable system. If a tube breaks, Baumier’s pitch is that the frame is not dead. The damaged tube can be removed and replaced.
“If you break a tube, you didn’t break your frame, you broke a tube, that’s it,” Grenon said. “We’ll open it up, we’ll replace two tubes and then we’ll glue two tubes in again and you’re on your way with the same bike so it doesn’t end up in the landfill.”
That is a pretty different pitch from most carbon road bikes. And part of the reason Baumier can say their bikes are guaranteed for life.
Resin Transfer Molding
One of the more interesting pieces of Baumier’s in-house production is how it builds its carbon components, starting with a reusable wax mandrel that forms the backbone of each rim or tube.
“We use this process that we call resin flow composite, but it’s an RTM, resin transfer molding process,” he explains.
Liquid wax is poured into a mold to…
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