The origins of Torrot goes back to the company Iriondo SA and their secondary brand CIL, founded in 1948 in Vitoria by Don Luis Iriondo and initially dedicated to manufacturing touring and road bikes.
They were competing with other Basque manufacturers, notably Orbea and BH. Then, in 1956, Iriondo reached an agreement to manufacture under license the French Terrot mopeds and motorcycles and created the company Terrot SAE . However, the agreement did not last long as, in 1958, Terrot was absorbed by Peugeot and two years later the new owners closed Terrot down. As a result, in 1960 Iriondo was left without a license within a year of beginning to produce the mopeds.
An advert for the popular City Moped
To be able to continue his activity, the Basque businessman pulled a masterstroke by merely changing the E of “Terrot” to an O and thus “Torrot” was born. The Torrot mopeds had a reputation for being very robust and innovative.
The Torrot City Moped, photographed at the 18th Feria at Castaneda, Cantabria
During the 1970s, Torrot produced a range of successful mopeds such as the Mustang or the TT (powered by a Sachs engines) and continued to produce bicycles as popular as the Cross MX (the forerunner of the BMX bikes).
A 1976 Torrot Cross 75 in the Museo de la Motocicleta Española, at 28802 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
Sadly, they ended up closing by 1991, a victim of the crisis that hit the sector.
However, in 2011 the Torrot name was resurrected and they now manufacture a range of electric bicycles on the other side of Spain, with their Headquarters in Girona.
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