Now that our new shop is getting up to speed, I thought I'd post a few pics of some of the latest stainless lugs coming out of the shop. One of the interesting insights for us coming out of NAHBS was that people are as excited by our lugwork as they are inspired by what we are doing with wood.
We offer stainless because of its many advantages (beauty, strength, longevity, durability, low impact). But what may not be apparent is how challenging it can be to work with Stainless, relative to other materials more commonly used in bicycle manufacture. Here at Sylvan, we have worked to develop proprietary methods of machining, joining and finishing stainless that enable us to offer our unique lugs. It's truly exacting work: there's no hiding. All the work is right out there in the open -- no paint!
I should also mention that we make bicycles with lugs from other materials – and we have some rather interesting things in development -- but more on that in a later post. Back to the Shop! John
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