Renovo Hardwood Bikes began in 2007 in Portland Oregon under the ownership of Ken Wheller. Christo Mroz, who also owns Pure Timber LLC bought Renovo in 2018 and roled the product line into Pure Timber LLC. Now branded Renovo by Pure Timber, the bike frames have been reimagined and reengineered with Mroz's compressed bending woods. This adds Adaptive Dampening to the already damp frames. The faster and harder you ride, the more the frame works for you.
Canadian, but based in Gig Harbor Washington, USA, Christo has been producing large scale high art wood fabrications for 25 years. His focus is radius wood work. Anything with a curve, and made out of wood. This has included large architectural fabrications, musical instrument production, curved furniture parts, and a very unique engineered wood product called compressed wood that Mroz manufactures exclusively and uses to bend wood further than anyone else in the world. It is this wood that creates some of the magic in Renovo bike frames, especially the Adaptive Dampening. For more about Christo's architectural work, see www.puretimber.com, email christo@puretimber.com