April 8, 2010

History of Blata Motorcycle Company - Mini Moto Bike


Blata is a Czech company, based in Blansko, that produces high performance, mini moto bikes. These bikes are designed and built for use on a closed, paved circuit.

Pavel Blata, the founder of the company, had his first experiences with motorbikes as a competitor of six-day motorbike endurance events. He was carrying their business in small minibikes, motorbikes and scooters developing and producing more than 17 years.

By the end of the 80’s he had started to produce and sell scooters and minibikes under the Blata name. He gradually built up a small team of people that he could trust, and set up a strong basis for the management of his company. This management core concentrated on building up another team of experts around them in the form of engineers, technicians and developers.




Blata has a high-quality products which are able to strike new market positions.

1974 - Pavel Blata – Povážské machine-works factory driver
1991 - first minibike builded up in Pavel Blatas garage
1992 - BLATA produced 554 minibikes a year and scooters development started
1993 - scooters BLATA exported to USA a EU nations
1994 - BLATA CUP minibike racing – Official Czech Cup founded
1995 - more than 20 employees and year production of 2200 minibikes and scoters
1996 - first CNC centers as well as new production hall were purchased,
1997 - Blata cooperates in founding European championship in Ulm (Germany) for the firs time. Jan Nemec team factory driver won the title and become the European champion. Lukáš Pešek european champion a and BLATA factory team driver. Nowadays racing in MOTO GP 250 ccm.
2003 - awarded by Outstanding product award and The best manager act award
2005 - finished production hall construction
2007 - Design award: Outstanding design of the year
2009 - Blata Motard 125 BXM and Blata Enduro 125 BXE are homologated and ready to sell. Brand new minibike series Blata ULTIMA presented on Prague exhibition MOTOCYKL

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