Santana Cycles

{{Infobox company

| name = Santana Cycles

| logo = Santanalogo1.jpg

| foundation = {{start date and age|1976}}

| location_city = La Verne, California

| location_country = USA

| key_people = Bill McCready, Founder

| industry = Bicycles

| products = Bicycle and Related Components

| homepage = [http://santanatandem.com santanatandem.com]

}}

Santana Cycles is the world's leading manufacturer of tandem bicycles.{{cite web

| url = http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_sa-o.html

| title = Sheldon Brown: Santana

| accessdate = 2009-01-06}} Santana was founded in 1976 by Bill McCready, an Associate Editor at Bicycling Magazine, and is located in La Verne, California.{{cite web

| url = http://santanatandem.com

| title = Santana Cycles

| accessdate = 2009-01-06}} In the 1970s "Santana virtually re-invented the tandem, which had been in decline since the second world war." In 2002, Santana was described as the largest manufacturer of "enthusiast level" tandem bicycles.{{Cite journal |author=Galaraga |first=Tom |date=2002 |title=Two Wheelin': Changing Gears for the Life Cycle |url=http://www.ulv.edu/comms/lvm/sp02/cycles.htm |journal=La Verne Magazine |access-date=2009-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406040309/http://www.ulv.edu/comms/lvm/sp02/cycles.htm |archive-date=2009-04-06}}