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Styled for the performance and sport bike segment
The Birth of Tour Master and Cortech
“In 1978, Helmet House leveraged its expertise in the motorcycle retail and
distribution business, to launch the Tour Master brand of motorcycle riding
gear- mainly apparel and gloves, and eventually bags, rainsuits and boots
too. Today Tour Master is a key player in the motorcycle aftermarket and one
of the leading manufacturers and marketers of riding gear to street
motorcyclists. Out of our Tour Master brand came our latest line of gear,
Cortech, which offers all of the performance features and sophisticated
innovations and fabric technologies of our Tour Master gear, but is styled
for the performance and sport bike segment. Since 2002, it has grown
steadily to be a major player in street apparel, gloves and riding gear.”
In 2005, Tour Master and Cortech have greatly expanded their product lines
into the wide ranging, technically sophisticated riding gear, luggage
systems, Jackets and boots we offer today. Along the way they’ve developed a
diverse range of testing and product development processes using both
sophisticated computer fabric wear and stress analysis, to putting our
luggage systems on the roof of our California headquarters to test long term
color fastness in extreme sun and heat conditions. They have even become the
first apparel manufacturer to test our garments in a wind room, that can
allow a rider on a bike to be subjected to either wind or wind and rain up
to speeds approaching 90 mph to test garments ventilation capabilities and
waterproofing. This level of testing sophistication has helped them gear up
many long distance tourers with gear they’ve come to rely on. In fact they
get Iron Butt Rally people passing here a lot.
They’ve also developed a highly trained sales staff that calls on almost
8,000 motorcycle retailers across the United States. They’ve added staff and
upgraded our management systems to the point that we consider themselves one
of motorcycling pre-eminent gear manufacturers, marketers and distributors.
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