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Elan is a world-famous Slovenian company, located in Begunje, specializing in the production of sporting goods. It is best known for its skis and snowboards. Other products include sailboats from 30 to 50 ft length, motor yachts, apparel (mostly sportswear), equipment for sports facilities. The brand-name became better known in the 1970s, when Swedish skiing ace Ingemar Stenmark won three consecutive Alpine skiing World Cups on Elan skis.

Elan company changed the world ski industry by inventing shaped skis, also called parabolic skis, that made carve turns possible at low speeds and with short turn radius. They were first developed in 1988 by Jurij Franko who calculated a suitable flex pattern for new kind of skis with his colleague Pavel Skofic. They organized a project dubbed SideCut Extreme – SCX – and set out to build prototypes.

NOT NETHERLANDS but SLOVENIAN COMPANY !!!!!!

Tomos is a Slovenian manufacturer based in the city of Koper. Tomos has produced various goods for the Eastern European market, including motorcycles, cars, mopeds, Outboard motors and boats. Commonly only the mopeds are well known. Tomos acquired a license to produce existing moped models from Puch under the Tomos name. Tomos once produced Citroën and Renault cars for the home market.

Tomos moped's are also produced in Epe, the Netherlands since 1966. A very good-selling model was the Tomos "4L", produced from 1969 until 1980. The Dutch development team is responsible for the introduction of models like the Colibri, Targa and Revival. Tomos is the last remaining moped factory in the Netherlands, surviving at least 36 others since 1966.

Tomos in the Slovene language is an acronym for TOvarna MOtornih koles Sežana, meaning Motorcycle Company Sežana. Despite TOMOS being the only true Moped supplier for the US market, the brand remains strong and reliable with many innovations. Repair is cheap and simple—considering that a new unit only costs around $1099 to $1899 USD delivered.

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button test

The world Ski Jumping Championships in Planica , Slovenia !

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