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A mind blowing visit to the Leatt Laboratory in The Cape.

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While we were bombing around Cape Town and surrounds on Suzuki’s GSX-S100GX (read about that in RideFast Mag), we were invited for a tour of the proudly South African LEATT laboratory. We were, quite simply, blown away by what we found. The humble buildings in a business park bely the level of technology, testing equipment and Leatt R&D happening within.

Paul Medell, Boss Man of Leatt South Africa, whose main distribution centre is in the same business park walked us across the road to the World HQ and introduced us to Pieter Keevey, a Biomedical Engineer for Leatt. The man flies around the world investigating accidents and how Riding products perform. He also testifies in courts of enquiry into accidents, so he is, absolutely, the right person to give us a tour of the R&D lab.
Paul Medell, Boss Man of Leatt South Africa, whose main distribution centre is in the same business park walked us across the road to the World HQ and introduced us to Pieter Keevey, a Biomedical Engineer for Leatt. The man flies around the world investigating accidents and how Riding products perform. He also testifies in courts of enquiry into accidents, so he is, absolutely, the right person to give us a tour of the R&D lab.
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Apart from the Leatt Lab being at a level of something you would expect to see in ‘Silicon Valley’ in Northern California or some similar tech oriented city, it really just looks like such a cool place to work.
Apart from the Leatt Lab being at a level of something you would expect to see in ‘Silicon Valley’ in Northern California or some similar tech oriented city, it really just looks like such a cool place to work.
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There are foosball tables, a lekker kitchen with fancy coffee machines and the whole nine yards. Most impressive of all is that most of the machines, testing methods and standards in most instances had to be developed in house and are now the recognised standards internationally.
There are foosball tables, a lekker kitchen with fancy coffee machines and the whole nine yards. Most impressive of all is that most of the machines, testing methods and standards in most instances had to be developed in house and are now the recognised standards internationally.
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This machine puts the knee guards through it paces, not only opening and closing on the hinges but also on rotational forces by twisting it with every motion. Effectively, doing in a few hours what a rider would do over 5 years or more.

But, rather than us waffling on, hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. Sean shot a video of the whole thing, go watch it……

It really is quite something to see… Proudly South African

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