Leveraging a $10,000 inheritance from his grandmother, Lennard starts Zinn Cycles, building custom fillet-brazed mountain and lugged road frames out of double-butted steel tubing in a basement in south Boulder. He sketches each frame full size on a huge piece of paper. First employee Kate Inskeep miters the tubes with hand files, and Lennard silver-solders (lugged frames) or brazes (fillet-brazed frames) them together on a wooden jig he built resembling Tom Ritchey’s. Two years later, Zinn Cycles moves into the basement of Lennard and Sonny’s new house in Lafayette, CO.
