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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Bicycle production |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder | Ben Lawee |
| Defunct | 1977, restart 2016 |
| Fate | Production moved to Japan under new name |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | World |
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| Owner | Nicholas Hurenkamp |
Italvega is a brand of road bicycles designed, specified, imported and marketed by the California-based bicycle distributor, Lawee, Inc., founded by Ben Lawee, who also created the Univega and Bertoni bicycle brands.
Italvega bikes were designed and hand-built within the noted Torresini workshop at the Torpado factory in Padua, Italy. They were built beginning in 1970 and continuing through the mid- to late-1970s before manufacturing was moved to Japan under the name Univega. All Italvega bicycles were made in the Torpado factory, but not all were high-end bicycles. Torpado made a broad variety of bicycles for different uses (including worker, comfort, BMT, ATB, and even motorized).