Brett Flemming established Efficient Velo Tools in 1999 with a mission to offer bombproof tools that are highly functional and highly efficient. He is the only non-Shimano employee to feature be named in a Shimano patent for his work on their derailleur hanger alignment tool.
Brett began his working as a bicycle mechanic in 1979. By 1998, he was the Workshop Manager at a large shop in Portland, Oregon. With 35 mechanics under his supervision, he had become a master mechanic by day and a hobby shop machinist by night. Using his metalworking skills to support the service department by making shims, bushings, hard-to-find parts and eventually his first marketed shop tool, the “Offset Velo Clamp”.
EVT remain a small company, employing 6 staff members in their small workshop in Washougal, Washington.
