My wonderful assistant NIKO wearing a late 80′s fluo winter jacket with incorporated cap, vintage ASSOS. Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
Tag: aerodinamica
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squadra corse
LOLA wearing a vintage black and brown CINELLI Racing Team polyester shirt. Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
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elektrisch blau
NICO wears a late 80’s blue winter tight, vintage ASSOS. Photo Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
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07/12/12
“You won’t find many people who share all our interests from cycling to design to architecture, but we are lucky to say that Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis is one of them. He wrote an exclusive article about Mr. Bayer for the third number of the Pedal Project magazine. Are you asking why an Italian is writing an article about a forgotten producer of carbon rims from Moravia?
Antonello, whom we have met through our various activities in 2010, is just like that. Our conceptual harmony was obvious right after our first meeting in Café Louvre, where this energetic design and cycling expert likes to take a break. Antonello grew up in the small village of Cornaiano near Bolzano, Italy in a unique house that the legendary Carlo Scarpa built for his father, an important producer of design and furniture, in the seventies. This might be the cause for Antonello’s natural fascination with art and design. Antonello studied architecture in Venice but bicycles got into his life eventually. A big fan of cycling, close to Antonio Colombo and Cinelli and a blogger on his aerodinamica website, he is ignited for all good things. Now he lives in Zurich as a Cinelli distributor and consultant for some famous Italian furniture brands. Beside of that he continues to conquer his own limits in cycling. From time to time you can meet him in Prague, a favorite city of his since the nineties, where he supervises the production of his own brand of scarves and caps, Superleggero, which you can buy on his website, but also to see us or Mr. Bayer, with whom he is planning great things for the future. We have lots to look forward to.”PEDAL PROJECT MAGAZINE, issue nr. 3 For those that missed our article about JOSEF BAYER …
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la 4×100
1988 Olimpic Games in Seul. Team Time Trial. 100 km in 1:57:47. One of the fastest “quartetto” in cycling history: MARIO KUMMER, UWE AMPLER, JAN SCHUR and MAIK LANDSMANN. What shown yesterday is TTT for sissies, just good to make money, not to write history.
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josef bayer
The first time I ever saw a pair of JOSEF BAYER’s wheels was this summer at the Favorit Velodrome in Brno. They were a 3-spoke and a disc wheel. They were all black and aggressive looking, but they had a small green symbol on them, very speedy, very romantic. They made a strong impression on me and I asked the man responsible for the Velodrome about them. He replied by telling me about a certain JOSEF BAYER, builder of fantastic rims from the south of Moravia, but beyond that he knew little. The more I thought about it the more I realised that I needed to find this Mr. JOSEF BAYER, even if nobody knew how to help me, nobody had an address or contact.
My internet research also yielded no results. Then one day I decided to ask for some information from the TUFO brand, they could have known him, I reasoned, their base was in the south of the Czech Republic and perhaps some old mechanic there would remember a Mr. JOSEF BAYER. My decision was a lucky one, that very morning Mr. BAYER had visited them and I was able, finally, to get his email address.
I wrote to him immediately, telling him that I would very much like to meet him, that he must certainly be a very interesting person and that a trip to see him would be worth my while.
After about a week I received his response and we fixed a meeting for mid-December.