SHAD

Shad manufactures and distributes cases of various capacities and styles for large motorcycles to scooters and maxi scooters. Common characteristics of all Shad cases are the great quality of the materials used, increasing their guarantee and resistance, their high performance and their innovative aesthetics. The Shad brand belongs to NADSL, a company which has been active in the manufacture of seats and cases for the top motorcycle makers for many years. Since its beginnings, Shad has been committed to offering a high quality product.

The origins of NADSL date back to 1973 when Jaume Xicola Gascon founded the company in Valles Oriental not far from Barcelona. From the very outset, the company was dedicated to manufacturing seats for motorcycles. In this initial stage, the company manufactured seats for motorcycle companies located in or around the region: DERBI, MONTESA, BULTACO, SANGLAS, etc. Then, during the eighties, the sector underwent a significant industrial overhaul, which was the moment that NADSL began an important cycle of growth taking advantage of the entry of the principal Japanese motorcycle manufactures into the European market: YAMAHA, HONDA Y SUZUKI. At the same time the company began supplying PIAGGIO Spain which, combined with our Japanese manufacturers clients, represents a significant industrial step forward for NADSL. This client portfolio, including our clients from the initial stages of the company, catapulted the company into the list of the top ranking European manufacturers of motorcycle seats. However, it wasn't until the early nineties that NADSL began to manufacture seats for the major European manufacturers: PEUGEOT, BMW and MBK (YAMAHA France).

Taking advantage of the international boom, business relations with the principal European motorcycle manufacturers and our know-how of the plastic injection moulding product, NADSL begins to develop and produce side cases and top-side for the custom made range of BMW. Later on, the company would also supply and equip the first model of the Yamaha Tenere. It was the end of the nineties when the company decided to launch the first SHAD top case, with a capacity of 22 litres, together with the corresponding accessories and fixtures for the principal motorcycles and scooters of the period.

Between 1998 and 2010, NADSL began to win ever more ambitious and technologically complex projects, until eventually becoming the leading European manufacturer primary equipment (seats and top cases) for the principal brands manufacturing motorcycles in Europe, and the second most important company in the world in manufacturing and marketing top cases, which under its trademark, distributes the SHAD brand and which is present in more than 60 countries worldwide.