Part 9  The Llewellyn Casting Story Casting design # 2 # XLS. The Crescendo Lug set.

Part 9 The Llewellyn Casting Story Casting design # 2 # XLS. The Crescendo Lug set.

Part 9  The Llewellyn Casting Story Casting design # 2  # XLS. The Crescendo Lug set. (formerly called the “Slant 6 lug set” )  Year…

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Part 8 Casting # 1 The Llewellyn Stem lug set.

Part 8 Casting # 1 The Llewellyn Stem lug set.

Part 8 Casting # 1 The Llewellyn Stem lug set. The sketches of my stem lug desires commenced, I had chats with Kirk Pacenti and…

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Part 7 The Llewellyn frame casting story.

Part 7 The Llewellyn frame casting story.

Part 7 The Llewellyn frame casting story. For many years I was making fillet brazed stems to compliment a client’s Llewellyn bike. This came about…

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Part 6 The Llewellyn frame casting story.

Part 6 The Llewellyn frame casting story.

2001, I want to make steel frames. Every one tells me I am mad, steel is over. It is aluminium now. Aluminium is a terrible…

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Part 5 The Llewellyn frame casting story

Part 5 The Llewellyn frame casting story

  Part 5 The Llewellyn frame casting story   While I was galloping about Europe, washing bikes in a different country every week (23 in…

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Part 4 The Llewellyn Casting Story

Part 4 The Llewellyn Casting Story

Part 4 Six years at Hoffy Cycles and I had become severely bored. There was a limit to how many coaster hub rebuilds I could…

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