Back to the late 80′ with the beautiful line “SPLASH” and “MACRO SPLASH” the famous Cinelli Cork Ribbon 100% made in Italy, splashed in a variety of colours. Info & orders: welcome [at] aerodinamica.ch. Aerodinamica is official CINELLI distributor for Switzerland. Shop now >>>
RED HOOK CRITERIUM returns to Milano on October 15th. 120 turns, 15 total laps, 27 km overall distance for a 35 minutes hard and fast race. Really only for “gente cazzuta”. This evening opening party and registration event. More info & press release here.
THOMAS during the last edition of the “GIANNETTI DAY” 17th overall with a fantastic 2:46:39 only less than 4 minutes to first.
Preparing the next delivery for EDU’S in Biel/Bienne. Question: how many have you sold this year guys? Next week I will be in Biel to deliver the first stock of Mash bullhorn bar, so please Yvan prepare a lot of your fantastic “Cantuccini” and a good glas of “Vin Santo”. See you there. See you soon. Shop now >>>
Cinelli Mash Bullhorn handlebar, last collab between Mash and Cinelli, is now available. One width(40), hydroform molded aluminium 6061 T6, available in black or silver anodized. Stem CNC machined, aluminium 6066 T6, four bolts and 3 sizes(90/100/110), only black anodized. First dispatch end of Nov, limited quantities, pre-order yours before they are gone. Info & orders: welcome [at] aerodinamica.ch. Aerodinamica is official CINELLI distributor for Switzerland. SHOP NOW >>>
The new 2012 Gazzetta “nero” pure track geometry and track construction, made with COLUMBUS Cromolly tube set, micro-welded TIG junctions, microfusion stainless steel dropouts and seat collar and unique to its market, equipped with a segmented steel fork with a rake of 32mm. Be urban, be minimal, be chic. Pre-orders are open! First delivery end of November. Info & orders: welcome [at] aerodinamica.ch. Aerodinamica is official CINELLI distributor for Switzerland.
LUIGI riding the TIME VXRS Assos Factory Team Edition.
This fantastic frame was made by the genius of a French engineer called JEAN MARC GUEUGNEAUD (an unpronounceable name) who was one of the forerunners of carbon fibre in cycling. TIME bicycles is the “Phoenix” which rose from the ashes of TVT, company which in fact was fathered by engineer Gueugneaud. TVT frame made its debut in 1985 with the team La Vie Claire of BERNARD HINAULT, GREG LEMOND and the visionary PAUL KOEKLI and it in fact went on to win the Tour de France of 1986. Lemond immediately fell so in love with the frame that he introduced it to the United States becoming its importer. From that point onwards the TVT frame accompanied for the rest of his career even if at times obscured and relabelled underneath the paint jobs of demanding sponsors.
He won, always on his TVT, the Tour in 1989, the year of his rebirth at the hands of poor LAURENT FIGNON, the Worlds of 1989 at Chambery, and the Tour in 1990. And before him it had been PEDRO DELGADO who in 1988 won the Tour also on a TVT (relabelled Pinarello) and then in 1991 another Spanish champion enamoured with TVT won the tour: MIGUEL INDURAIN who would go on to win another 2 and a bit Tours on TVT (even if here it was also occasionally relabelled as a Pinarello).
But he wasn’t the only one, numerous were the professionals who used TVT frames which were relabelled and repainted, the glorious PDM team of which almost the entire team used TVT: ROOKS, THEUNISSE, ALCALA, BREUKINK, SEAN KELLY and many others, then later also STEVE BAUER, and MAURIZIO FONDRIEST (in 1991 when he was at Panasonic he won the UCI Road World Cup aboard his TVT).
Subsequently the engineer Jean Marc Gueugneaud landed at TIME in 1993 and for them he developed the ‘Time Composites Department”, using its exclusive Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) technology. During these years carbon fibre became ever more ‘domesticated’, as it were, to use in cycling, to the point that it became the material of choice for race frames.
2003 TIME presented the new VXRS frame. It was a condensation of the innovations which signalled a new conception of the construction of carbon fibre frames and beyond that, the very essence of the racing bicycle frame itself. The presented numerous innovations which have in time become standards: the VXRS frame presented for the very first time the integrated seatpost mast, then, less visible but even more important in terms of steering and stability of the bicycle, the variable headtube diameter – from 1” 1/8 in the upper part to 1” ¼ in the lower part. Also present were a whole other host of small but significant details and technical innovative strategies which further added to the value of this frame: the ‘quick-set’ system for the adjustment of the fork separate to the stem and handlebars, carbon fibre fork tips and a new method of working the carbon with RTM technology.
This new TIME frame debuted in the world of pro racing with the Quick Step team which at the time was comprised of JOHAN MUSEEUW, TOM BOONEN, PAOLO BETTINI, FILIPPO POZZATO, LUCA PAOLINI, RICHARD VIRENQUE and with these riders the VXRS very quickly began to collect and extraordinary string of results, 3 World Championships, the Olympic Gold with Paolo Bettini, Paris-Roubaix, Ronde van Flanderren, Milano-San Remo, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Flèche Wallonne, Giro di Lombardia, etc.
All this, simply, to evidence the thread which lies hidden beneath a product (or in this case two products, borne of the same father) which is connected with the history of cycling and its heroes by virtue of the passion, knowledge and innovation whose attention was turned to the search for the apex of performance.
Text by Luigi Bergamo. All rights reserved.
RYAN HESHKA – New modern bicycle – 2011 and WES FREED – Country romp with a robust red – 2011.
“In 1979 I asked Italo Lupi to redesign the Cinelli logo. He knew what I wanted and I gave him “carte blanche”. The result was the most imitated logo in modern cycling. Hard to imagine now but the mix of design, fashion and competition embodied in the logo was startling, even Cino was a little bit offended. The collaboration with MASH SF began after they sent me a t-shirt with on it a deformed version of the logo of my other brand, Columbus. I sent them an email saying “What the hell do you guys think you are doing???” And we became friends. The colours in the winged-C of the Cinelli logo had nothing to do with cycling when Italo Lupi chose them. They were inspired by the enamelling on old British trains. They were ‘chic’ colours. Barry McGee wanted to work with Cinelli because when he was a kid he lusted after the Cinelli BMX frame, CMX – it was the most expensive BMX on the market, and also the lightest, at the time we only had the Italian racing performance mentality – we thought it was best for the athlete to have the lightest frame possible even if it meant it last less time – we were completely wrong, the market wanted mass – produced cheap stuff and everybody complained about our CMX and tried to return the frames. Now people buy broken ones on ebay for as much as they used to cost new. When Andy Hampsten won the Giro d’Italia in 1989 with his heroic ride on Passo del Gavia in an enormous snowstorm he was riding Cinelli products. If you look closely you will notice that the bar tape is not standard cork but a special edition with screenprinted pattern designed by Milan’s most famous design studio at the time Alchimia. In all that Spartan heroism Cinelli inserted a sense of humour without ever compromising professional performance. All this to say: Cinelli bikes aren’t just designed to look good. They’re designed to combine the essential technical elements for performance – be it the legendary ‘no flex downtube’ or Saetta’s lauded ‘skeletal efficiency concept’ – with an unparalleled emotional and cultural sophistication – what bike will ever be considered more of a reflection of its times, historically speaking, than the MASH? Riding a Cinelli FEELS EXCITING in the most complete sense of the expression.”
Antonio Colombo
The new 2012 ZYDECO yellow and grey, Columbus alloy 7005 T6 triple butted Zonal tube set, Columbus carbon Tusk Cross fork 1-1/8. Available as frame or full Shimano 105/ Fsa equipped. Wheel set Fulcrum racing 5CX, brakes Tektro CR710. For bad boys only!
Pre-orders are open! Info & orders: welcome [at] aerodinamica.ch. Aerodinamica is official Cinelli distributor for Switzerland.