The family sold the bike business in 1999 and restarted in 2005, probably after a non compete expired. AFAIK, they never did non-bike machine work once the bike biz took off.
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Originally Posted by 54ny77
100% agree.
They have a lot of history in titanium. No opinion one way or the other, the bikes always seem very nice and priced competitively. Plus, they're made stateside. Bravo to that.
Pardon if I completely butchered this....but if I recall, bikes were somewhat of a side gig for the original family-owned company years ago (Litespeed), which was primarily industrial/aerospace. And then it got spun off, rebranded to the original family name (Lynskey), yadda yadda. Or something like that.
For the dinosaurs amongst us, the Litespeed "Ultimate" was one of *the* swank ti frames in its day, swooping curved stays and all. 
It's just funny that the past several+ years they always seem to get buzz about frequent sales. |