Waterworks-Lamson Information

Waterworks-Lamson is not a typical fly fishing company. We are C1 Design Group, and our core expertise is in product design. We innovate, invent, design and engineer. In 1988, C1's design team was ready to revolutionize a sport. It's hard now to picture performance cyclists reaching down and tightening leather straps around their feet to stay fast to their pedals, but that was the state of the art at the time. Our first patented product, the Avant Sport Talon clipless pedal was about to make the practice obsolete. C1 Design went on to sharpen another cutting edge in sport, pioneering bike suspension for companies like Cannondale, Kestrel and Scott USA. In a move that would become typical of C1 Design, the DeltaV/Headshok program ignored the impulse to simply scale down motorcycle technology, instead creating a telescoping assembly small enough to fit in the bike's head tube. The approach, using rolling bearing elements instead of sliding surfaces, transmitted torque, saved weight, improved steering precision and enhanced suspension sensitivity. The Headshok patented technology lives on today in Cannondale's Lefty system, still unique in the world of cycle sport. C1 Design continued innovating, developing component, tire and suspension concepts and licensing designs to Vetta Sports, Scott USA and Kestrel Composites. The Kestrel Rubicon Comp, an embodiment of our dual rate suspension frame won the prestigious Mountain Bike Magazine "Best Downhill Bike" award in '97.