Nothing! Good things take time, that’s all.
The demand for L1 caught us by surprise too, as everyone had told us that lever machines were dead & buried – something that would only be found in a museum in the very near future
That terrifying prospect was probably what galvanised us into action as much as anything; lever machines are still the way to achieve the optimal espresso extraction, as painful as that might be for the proponents of the high tech approach to espresso
The funniest thing that was ever written about the L1 was that we knocked it out in 3 months from start to finish
To quote that over-used phrase from a New Zealand beer advertisement; ‘yeah right’.