HOW IT ALL STARTED

Having met during youth athletics, our two founders Frank and Florian quickly identified a second common passion: cycling. The two of them spent many hours together in their living rooms, tweaking and tuning their bikes wherever possible. In particular, they always focused on wheel technology. They began to research and modify it down to the last detail. At some point it became clear that this could also be a professional future. 

THE FOUNDATION

At the beginning of 2012, the two ventured into self-employment with the founding of Leeze. Their choice of name reflects their close ties to their home city of Münster, Germany's No. 1 cycling city. "Leeze" means bicycle in the old Münster language Masematte. By the way, it is pronounced like "Lehtze" and not "Lease" in English.

After Frank and Flo were still able to work mainly within their own four walls alongside their university studies during the early days, their own premises became increasingly necessary. In particular, a separate room for the Holland Mechanics truing machine was urgently needed.

THE MOVING

In 2015, the three moved into a rented property with production, storage and office space. This was quickly followed by an expansion, first of the office space and a little later of the storage space. Over the years, further steady and healthy growth followed, so that it was time to think about more. So the basis for further growth was constantly refined.

GROWTH

While the developments for a new, unprecedented wheel generation began together with Eric Helter as an experienced development engineer, there was an increase in personnel in marketing and shortly afterwards also for our complete wheel service. Leeze has been officially registered as a training company since August, and Alina has been with us ever since, first as a hard-working trainee and now as a permanent employee with active support.  

NEW PRODUCTS & BUILDINGS

The developments of the new wheelset generation have been completed and the first models have passed the wind tunnel, laboratory and calculation tests as well as the road tests more than satisfactorily. The WASO- and WSTO-Technologie are now at the forefront of Leeze products. A qualitatively comparable product in this price category does not exist on the market yet, an absolute milestone.

With the increase in personnel, the establishment of our own service workshop and the expansion of the storage area that is necessary due to orders, a new major project is on the agenda for 2019: the new building. Not far from our current location, our own building will be completed and we will soon be moving into it.

Here, in addition to the existing business areas, a separate bike store with high-end products for road bikes and MTBs and space for further growth are planned.