Here's some more of his Art.

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Investment cast stainless steel dropouts... Hand polished by Darrell.

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Did he cast those himself?

Its funny how our hearts are in those older bikes from the 80s and 90s. The appearance still yank our emotions. I don't ride any of them anymore but my Torelli alum/carbon bike once every blue moon. I think today's top end bikes are pretty ugly.

He produces those and supplies them to other steel frame builders. Richard Sachs in the US is one of his customers. Traditional lugged steel frame building is becoming a very small world.

Llewellyn Framebuilding Supplies

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Everything looks just right on that Sachs. I would change that out to e shifting. Does Campy make them now?

Campy started with e shifting with their 11 speed. The newer 12 speed has hydro disk brakes as well. (I've never been a fan of hydro disk brakes. I prefer the cable operated version)

I was messing around with an SRAM e shift bike today. A little green LED blinks on the derailleurs every time you shift. Rather nice :)

At the time, I.E. 1983 through my retirement in 1985 I was riding 400 miles a week for training and racing nearly every weekend with my oldest daughter Lisa who was the CA State road and track champion for several years until we both got burned out. I was president of the LaJolla cycling club, same a Mark Gorski and George Mount who was racing in Europe at the time. A couple weeks before the 1984 Olympics Mark got a ticket for riding through a stop sign in La Jolla as the SD Police did NOT like cyclists at the time. We got the ticket thrown out as we got the judges family several tickets to the new velodrome where the track events were held (sort of a "fine")!

A funny note: The afternoon before the 1984 Olympic road race Lisa and I along with Mariane Bergland who was the world road race champion in 1983 with her "rainbow Jersey" road around the course to see what the hills were like and people were hollering "hi Lisa" as she had on her "Bear Jersey" and nobody seemed to know who the world champion was!

My daily ride was from Naval station San Diego, up 30th street to University Ave the draft behind a city bus or other large truck out to Lemon Grove then South-East out highway 94 to Jamul then West on Otay Lakes Road back home to Chula Vista. Lots of hills and down hills but all two lane roads so I learned to love my small rear view mirror.
Still have the painted marks on our back sidewalk so we could measure the "rollout" of Lisa's junior class bicycles.

Yeah, that little blond beat out my sweet heart, baby faced, Twigg. Its really cool you got to do that with some world class riders. You kid must have raced against our hot shot Jenny Ikhoff (sp?) around the same time. She was one fast track rider.

Its nice that you still have the markings for her jr road bike.

Right at the very beginning month of Covid, I basically stopped work and was putting in 250+ miles weekly, got stronger then I had been in the past ten years. Amazing how just putting in long miles can get one fit so easily. I was doing about 3-400 miles weekly from late teen into my late 20s. got burn out too form all the riding and doing the same damn thing for over 10 years. It became work and was no longer fun.