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More Handsome and Handy Bike Tools: Lezyne's "Engineered Design"

By Rain Noe - March 8, 2012

in Hand Tools

Following our entry mentioning Birzman's purty bike tools, reader Frank turned us on to Lezyne, a bicycle accessories company that's just celebrated their 5th birthday last week. Lezyne's products are borne from "a love for cycling [combined with] a passion for design—exquisitely designed, intelligently engineered, and functionally complete," says the company, which was started by former triathlete Micki Kozuschek.

Although based in California, Kozuschek originally hails from Germany, explaining Lezyne's striking, Teutonic aesthetic.

Operating under the ethos of "Engineered Design," the company produces a beautiful line of accessories including tools, pumps, bottle cages, saddle bags and most recently, LED lights.

"In the old days, everything just worked. It didn't look great, but it worked. Now some things look great, but they don't last," Kozuschek told Velo News several years ago, when the company began expanding their product range. "We're doing this differently."

For you German speakers, there are a host of videos on YouTube featuring Kozuschek introducing various products in his native tongue; we Yanks will have to content ourselves with this English-language video showing an American rep explaining Lezyne's line-up at the most recent Eurobike show.

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slippyfish

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I have a pump from them as well - intelligently designed. One way that companies can really go the extra mile is customer support in the way of small parts (even a catalog) to allow mechanics to repair their own tools (throwing away only broken parts).

Good products. Expensive but good.
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Frank

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Glad you guys liked them :)
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emanster provolone

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I got a pump from these guys recently. Very nice design, and works great!!

With soo many players in the field right now, its often difficult to sort out the ones who really know what they are doing, and most of the bicycling brands I have been seeing often have only 1 or 2 standout designs.

I fee like Lezyne is pretty consistent across the board with well engineered and well designed product built to last. Not a bunch of plastic garbage, but real metal tools and components!
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