Featured In the June 2022 issue of Roadracing World:
Vanson Leathers was founded in 1974 by hard-core motorcycle enthusiast and old-school, do-it-yourself visionary Mike van der Sleesen.
Originally based in Boston before re-locating south to Fall River, Massachusetts, Vanson is a microcosm of both American manufacturing and the broader U.S. motorcycle economy, and the company makes some of the toughest leathers and highest-quality products in the world…
—Shops: Vanson Leathers Factory, by Sam Fleming
Vanson started in a Boston garment industry cluster of sewing machine manufacturers, leather tanners, thread suppliers, producers of cloth for jacket linings, and a well-paid motorcycle enthusiast market of riders who wanted top-quality motorcycle gear. All these years later, they are still going strong. Read about the journey in the latest issue of Roadracing World!
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