FIXI Crescent Suzuki and Troy Lee Designs team up at Laguna
. By Bikeland Staff
FIXI Crescent Suzuki teamed up with American motorsport design icon Troy Lee for the eni FIM Superbike World Championship event at Laguna Seca.
Troy Lee Designs has been customising helmets ‘For the World's Fastest Racers’ since 1981 and supplied Jules Cluzel with a super cool design for his Shoei helmet, with a strong American/French theme. Featuring a take on the ‘Stars and Stripes’, as well as the’ French Tricolor’, the helmet includes gold-leaf finishes and a touch of inspiration for that great American motorcycle idol ‘Evel Knievel’. Without doubt the most impactful helmet at the Laguna race!
A small group of the FIXI Crescent Suzuki team – including Denning and Cluzel – travelled to TLD’s headquarters in Corona, California before the Laguna races to see the final touches being made to the helmet, before heading–off with TLD’s Supercross stars Cole Seeley and Jesse Nelson for a spot of off-road fun at a local So-Cal motocross track.
Troy Lee Designs has grown over the past three decades to supply a product line ranging from high-performance helmets to a complete line of Motocross racing gear, MTB clothing and casual wear. With racers in the four-wheeled world of Indy Car, World Rally and NASCAR, to the two-wheel heroes of Motocross, Enduro, Freestyle, Dirt Track and Road Racing, through to the cycle stars of Mountain Biking to BMX, Troy Lee Designs works with the best in the world in many disciplines.
The Yoshimura-powered GSX-R featured the TLD logo on its livery for the whole Laguna Seca race weekend including Saturday’s and Sunday’s 26-lap races, where Cluzel and American star Blake Young battled it out with the world’s best Superbike riders around the Californian circuit.
Paul Denning – Team Manager:
“Troy, Maki and the TLD team have become friends since we started working with them on a professional basis in 2010. TLD is iconic in the world of motorsport and it is great to regard them as friends and welcome them to join the FIXI Crescent Suzuki team at Laguna. The helmet the guys designed for Jules was fantastic, it’s one of the coolest ever, but that’s the sort of work we have come to expect from Troy and his designers – we all well remember the amazing chrome Rizla Suzuki GP bike they did at Misano. Good guys to work with and always produce the goods – TLD design is iconic."
Troy Lee – CEO Troy Lee Designs:
“We had fun doing the helmet for Jules and we were pretty stoked with it. Motocross is at our core here at TLD, but we really enjoyed the work we did with Paul on the Suzuki GP project in the past and we were proud to be aligned with the FIXI Crescent Suzuki Superbike team this year at Laguna. The team seems to enjoy motocross as much as we do, it was cool to help them go riding here in California, and I hope we get to do some more projects together in the future!”