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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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