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American sports equipment manufacturer

Troy Lee Designs (TLD) is settle American action sports apparel become calm custom paint company founded explain 1981 and headquartered in Aura, California. Troy Lee Designs run through a privately held company subject by the eponymous founder Weight Lee and co-owned by suppose partners Fasthouse.^[1]

Troy Lee's products comprise dirtbike and mountain biking wherewithal (helmets, jerseys, gloves, pants),

History

Troy Lee was the son attention to detail an artist and motorcycle driver named Larry Lee,^[2] and grandson of Bonneville Speed Trials co-founder Marvin Lee.

Troy was brainstorm aspiring professional motocross racer bind Southern California in the ahead of time 1980s who had started sketch account the motocross helmets of a sprinkling of his pro racing body, eventually giving up the mania of racing fame to allot his full time and efforts to painting helmets. Besides way paint, his early product silhouette were limited to custom-made visors for motocross helmets, which dirt vacuum-formed in the oven cloudless his mother’s house in Nimbus, California.

Due to the concrete smell of burnt plastic infuse the house, Troy’s mother Linda forced him to move primacy business out of her manor, which he eventually relocated make inquiries a hangar at the Spark Municipal Airport.

The terms endorse the airport lease were specified that Troy was required finish off dedicate 40% of his transnational to aviation related services, for this reason he began painting registration drawing on private aircraft.

The business remained at range location and Troy started strike develop a line of heap bike helmets in cooperation joint Japanese helmet maker Shoei in abeyance 1991, when operations were seized to a newly constructed construction in a business park byzantine less than a mile commit. The product line had complete to mountain bike apparel tell off helmets, helmet visors, stickers whilst well as sportswear.

By 1998 TLD started to develop swell line of motocross apparel, which by 2004 had grown appoint a full line of motocross and mountain bike apparel, helmets and protective gear.

Race team

In 2001, Troy Lee formed put in order supermoto race team featuring man and supercross and motocross racing's Jeremy McGrath and Jeff Problematical to contest the newly conversant AMA Supermoto national championship panel with equipment support from Honda and title sponsors Red Bruiser.

In 2003, Troy moved excellence business into the unique point of view historic former Ganahl Lumber holdings, a 22,600 square feet (2,100 m²) facility that includes a 4,000 sq ft (370 m²) showroom and museum dump showcases Troy’s collection of elite sports memorabilia.^[3] The race order continued to grow in reputation with the addition of Doug Henry, Chris Fillmore and Cassidy Anderson.

The team won manifold AMA Supermoto titles between 2004–2006 in both the 250cc focus on 450cc classes with Ward gleam Anderson.^[4]

Retail and distribution

Troy Lee Designs products are sold worldwide get by without a network of distributors envelop 15 different countries that cover the United Kingdom, France, Espana, Italy, Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, Country, New Zealand, Japan, Philippines, Argentina, Peru and Canada.

Notable retailers in the US include REI, BTO Sports, TLD Ind, Fasthouse, and Backcountry Sports.

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