Ventana Mountain Bikes, USA was formed in late 1988 as a joint venture between Gibson and Steve Blalock of Monterey, California. The two shared a common interest in mountain bikes and their construction.
Ventana is named for the rugged coastal wilderness in Big Sur, near Blalock's home. Sixteen years later, Gibson still designs every Ventana frame from the ground up to meet his stringent performance standards under his keen eye for aesthetic simplicity and impeccable drive for manufacturing excellence.

From their sexy CNC machined suspension pieces down to their smallest cable stop, every piece, of every Ventana frame, is painstakingly produced by Ventana.

While other so called manufacturers market "Hand-Built, American" bikes actually built by large production houses in the U.S. and Taiwan, Ventanas are truly born and manufactured in the same region as the sport itself -Northern California.