Woodinville / Washington / United States
Sportworks was founded in March of 1990. The company started with one customer, Scott USA. Its duties included bending, processing and packaging all of their handlebars and forks including the Scott clip-on, bar ends and drop-style road bars. Sportworks now has its own products that consist of the Bike-Rack-for-Buses and its line of quick-load bike racks. The Bike-Rack-for-Buses was born out of an interest in making bicycling more accessible to more people. One of the first Bike-Rack-for-Buses customers was King County Metro in Washington State, including the city of Seattle. Metro outfitted more than 1,200 buses with Sportworks bike racks and has paved the way for transit agencies across the country in increasing multi-modal opportunities for their riders. Its customers have as few as one bus or as many as 2,000 buses. The quick-load racks allow users the conveniences of a 10-second load time and no wheel removal. Quick-load racks will carry almost every size and nearly all types of bicycles.
