01 · About

A decade in.
Still doing it properly.

In 2014, three partners walked out of a carbon-fiber business that wasn't being taken seriously. They started DeerCycles to do this properly. More than a decade later, they still do.

The category had potential the previous owner was willing to squander. One of the three founders had seen it from the inside as a trade partner. Another had spent years as the technical backbone at a carbon-rim factory. The third had spent the previous decade learning how Western wheel brands actually buy.

They began working together in 2014. They formalized the company as Xiamen Deer Cycles Industry & Trade Co., Ltd in 2016. They built their own factory in 2017. The three are still the three.

Across an inquiry, an engineering call, an order, and a final QC sign-off — your project stays with the same core team from inquiry to shipment.

2014 Three partners begin working together. The technical co-founder brings years of in-factory carbon-rim experience.
2016 Xiamen Deer Cycles Industry & Trade Co., Ltd formally founded.
2017 Own factory built and operated directly. Vertical integration begins.
2026 Still three founders. Still hands-on. Our oldest partnerships are still growing — and so are we.

Same team.
Every order.

Lead Customer Partner

Amber Chen

Co-founder. English major. 12 years in the carbon-rim industry. The first voice on every inquiry and the long-term contact across each partnership.

Head of R&D

Daniel Tan

Co-founder. The engineering depth behind the company's fast feasibility answers. Background in carbon-rim design and structural development.

Head of Order Management & Final QC

James Chung

Co-founder. Leads order management and final shipment review, coordinating production feedback, surface-finish checks, decal alignment review, and rework items before shipment release.

"More orders was never the point.
Serving every customer well is."

— James Chung, Co-founder & Head of Order Management

DeerCycles factory floor — Xiamen, China

Built in 2017.
Still ours.

Vertically integrated through layup, hot press, drilling, QC, and decal application. Painting is handled by a single partner we have worked with since 2016 — same shop floor, every DeerCycles rim.

2,500

Rims / month

QC

Production QC

9yr

Longest partnership

Sample

to production