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CosmoBike, day two
Ah, the object of dreams — the sleek, elegant De Rosa SK Pininfarina is the offspring of a joint project between the 60-year-old bike company and the 85-year-old (primarily automotive) design firm. Obviously, it is designed for performance with a high emphasis on style. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
The De Rosa SK Pininfarina aero road bike comes in eight sizes and five colors/color combinations. The frame has a press-fit BB386 EVO bottom bracket shell (86.5mm long, 46mm inside diameter). Its claimed weight is 14.77 pounds (56cm, with Super Record EPS). Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
The fork shaped by Pininfarina accepts direct-mount brakes, and its steerer tapers from 1.125-inch to 1.25-inch. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
The SK Pininfarina’s plug-in internal system accepts either electronic or cable-actuated shifting. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
A flat rubber cover conceals the seatpost binder bolt on the SK Pininfarina’s top tube. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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Direct-mount brakes are a bit less clunky on to such a refined shape. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
Despite all of the Pininfarinas being Campagnolo-equipped, only one of the display models had Campagnolo’s new direct-mount brakes; the others had De Rosa’s own direct-mount stoppers. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
Perhaps saying it is “for those who are pretentious” was an unfortunate translation from Italian on De Rosa’s part when trying to sell the SK Pininfarina, or it may be a Freudian slip. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
Only in Italy do you see displays of elegant and fast Italian cars from days gone by at bike shows. This is a 1961 collaboration between Ferrari and Pininfarina. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
Milanino is De Rosa’s townie brand meant to reflect the lifestyle of De Rosa’s hometown of Milan. It includes elegant retro bikes like this 87 Journey model, as well as modern belt-drive aluminum fixies and e-bikes. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
T-Red’s Bestianera (Black Beast) is a “hybrid” in a new sense of the word for bicycles. Like a hybrid car, it has an electric motor and an internal battery that recharges during braking and coasting. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
Included in the Bestianera’s 21.6-pound mass is not only the rear disc wheel with Zehus hub motor, but also a carbon cell phone mount, a pair of powerful headlights, a SRAM X0 hydraulic front disc brake, and cool, pointed end plugs on the cowhorn bars. The rider can control the motor’s power output wirelessly from a smartphone. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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The Bestianera is also hybrid in the sense that, with a change of fork and handlebar, you can build it up as a full-on human-power-only track bike or as a flat-bar eBike or fixie. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
T-Red’s Aracnide titanium disc road bike with through-axles (front 15mm, rear 12mm) weighs 17.2 pounds in a 57cm size with Ultegra Di2, R785 hydraulic disc brakes, and deep-section wheels. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
This is the Vivax fully internal electric motor that the UCI keeps checking for in grand tours. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
This Bhoss Wind Star custom carbon eBike with internal Vivax motor and Ultegra components sells for 9,900 Euros and weighs 19.8 pounds. And nobody will be the wiser until you ride away. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
What would an Italian bike show be without a Mario Cipollini video playing continuously on an enormous screen? This one, promoting the Cipollini NK1K road bike, features the Lion King flipping icons around on a clear screen like Tom Cruise in “Minority Report.” He watches as robots construct the frame from carbon filaments all of the way to installing the wheels. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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And here is what the robots in the video came up with! Cipo rides it at high speed down a narrow passage like the one in “2001: A Space Odyssey” without hooking a handlebar on the walls zooming by. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
Stelio Belletti started TIG-welding bicycle frames in 1968, more than two decades before what is considered the start of TIG-welded bicycles. He closed his Stelbel company in 1990, but collectors of his bicycles have brought it back. Belletti himself, now 84 years old, rides three times a week and still advises Stelbel’s new owners. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
This Stelbel SB/03 Disc road model is built of Columbus superlight tubes developed for Stelbel. It has a PF30 bottom bracket and routing for Shimano Di2 and hydraulic discs. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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Bressan, a local Veronese framebuilder, won the CosmoBike design award for this Riviera steel/carbon model. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
This elegant Bressan Ginevra women’s city bike is as retro as it gets, with linkage brakes and fender weaving to keep a skirt out of the rear spokes. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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Check out the linkage rods that push the Ginevra’s brakes! Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
The linkage brakes pull the brake pads up against the underside of the rim to slow the bike down. I suspect you wouldn’t want to descend l’Alpe d’Huez with them. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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This Bressan Vintage lugged bike is dedicated to the customer’s grandfather’s memory. “Sempre con Giovanni” means, “always with Giovanni.” Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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The entire bike, dedicated to grandfather Giovanni. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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CosmoBike, day two
Alcide Basso has gone back to his roots with this retro lugged frame. It even has down tube shifter mounts in case you want to put some of those on! And it only weighs 15.4 pounds. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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Basso still had inventory of Mannesmann double-butted steel tubes that he hadn’t used for 25 years or so. He dusted them off, along with elegant investment-cast lugs from days gone by, and churned out some beautiful retro steel bikes. With an office in the U.S., Basso can directly sell to American customers. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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Olmo has been around since 1939, but fat bikes are a new thing for an old company. I didn’t get a straight answer for why the fork on this Rifugio fat bike is turned around backward. It certainly could be an attempt to combat the heavy steering feeling of fat bikes at low tire pressures by using negative fork rake. But then why not weld the disc mount to the non-drive side? And why wrap the hose around the crown like somebody spun the fork around as an afterthought, or no thought? Toe clearance with the front tire could be an issue. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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The fact that this Olmo Frontemare beach cruiser has a straight hose run to the front brake lends credibility to the idea that perhaps its fat bikes were intentionally set up with the forks turned around backward. And I can see how grabbing the rotor in front of the fork leg might be beneficial, tending to force the axle up into the dropout, rather than trying to yank it out of the dropout upon brake application the way a mount behind the fork leg does. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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What would a bike show be without a wooden bike? This one by Woobi doesn’t try to do everything in wood. Steel seat stays, dropouts, seatpost mount, and headset bearing mounts simplify the wooden parts. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com
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