Loobman is a small company which was set up in the last century by a chap called Dennis (that’s me).

I’ve always loved bikes (I don’t have a car licence) and I’ve been a motorcycle courier since 1986.

After several years of riding shaft driven bikes I decided to ride a sports bike for a while. In 1995 I bought a Suzuki GSXR1100 but I soon got tired of lifting the back wheel off the ground to oil the chain every morning and I started thinking of easier ways to do it, like an onboard chainoiler for example.

Chainoilers were going for silly money in those days because everyone wanted automation. The cheapest one on the market was £40 as I remember and this was for an inertia device which most reports said wouldn’t always shut off properly so it left puddles.

I started using a squeezy plastic bottle and a tube to run oil onto the side of the sprocket. It was dirt cheap, but it worked and several of my mates on the courier plot asked me to make them one as well so I bought a ‘job lot’ of bottles.

I was a member of the MAG organisation so I took out an ad to start selling the bottles in their monthly paper and pretty soon I had started a small business.