Brunswick sold Mongoose to Pacific Cycle in 2000 and Pacific Cycle was bought by Montreal-based Dorel Industries in 2004. By combining Pon.Bike and Dorel Sports, a quantity one bicycle company in the world will be created, with a mixed revenue of round 2.5 billion euro. Mongoose is a model name of bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and offered by BMX Products, Inc. RECO was a wholly owned manufacturing division created for insurance coverage purposes to be separate from BMX Products, Inc, although RECO was all the time produced in-house.
It was headed by Vice President of Manufacturing Hoppy Brooks, in his try and market motorcycle frames. Skip Hess started BMX Products, Inc. out of his house in Simi Valley, California in September 1974 with mongoose hybrid bike his first product being the well-known Motomag One wheel. In its early years Hess recalled that about 600 frames per day had been produced at its Chatsworth, Los Angeles location.