Customized metal bike builder Officina Battaglin makes a giant leap into new supplies with an all-new carbon & metal Roma highway bike. By combining a lugged metal spine with light-weight cast carbon tubes, the Battaglin Roma guarantees that traditional metal really feel at a lighter weight, utterly made in Italy and topped off with their superb {custom} cromovelato end.
Battaglin Roma lugged metal and bonded carbon (all) highway bike
With the brand new Roma, Officina Battaglin got down to “redefine what’s potential with metal”, mixing that candy easy trip high quality of traditional lugged metal with the lighter weight advantages of latest carbon fiber. The thought was to interchange the extra vertical components of the body with lighter carbon, whereas retaining the extra horizontal components in metal to retain the metal damping character.
“Historically, the unrivaled consolation of metal comes with a sure weight penalty, a trade-off we’ve embraced as a devoted metal bicycle producer. Nevertheless, with the Roma challenge, we got down to redefine what’s potential with metal whereas staying true to the fabric’s roots. We’ve challenged ourselves to see how a lot weight we might remove with out compromising the distinctive trip high quality that solely metal can provide.”
– Alex Battaglin, Officina Battaglin CEO
The top result’s a combined materials body stated to be on par with titanium body weights, however with the distinctive energetic really feel of a metal body.
Metal + Carbon building
The brand new Battaglin Roma body is fully hand-built in batches, in Marostica, Italy.
The body begins in two halves – high & backside – becoming a member of a Columbus GB81 metal tubeset custom-drawn for Battaglin with proprietary 3D-printed stainless-steel lugs. With specifically developed body jigs within the Battaglin workshop, the body builders braze the lugs onto both finish of the toptube, and construct the entire decrease backbone – dropouts, chainstays, backside bracket, downtube & decrease headtube lug. Battaglin mirror polishes these completed metal assemblies, then absolutely chrome plates them within the traditional silver chrome that varieties the premise of their cromovelato end.
Then, Battaglin bonds within the full set of Italian-made ultra-high-modulus T1000 cast carbon fiber tubes to finish the Roma body. Solely when you select the ultimate end, does Battaglin add the final coloration tint layers of paint to the end. Lastly, topping it off with logos and a deep shiny clearcoat, whereas leaving the solid carbon tubes uncooked.
Tech particulars & inventory geometry
- straight 1.5″ headset for absolutely inside cable routing with the tapered steerer full carbon fork
- wi-fi digital groupsets solely
- disc brake solely, flat mount 140/160mm
- T47 threaded backside bracket
- 31.6mm spherical seatpost
- plus, 700c x 35mm max tire clearance
- after which, 12 vibrant cromovelato colours to select from, plus this new Rose Gold nod to Giovanni Battaglin’s Giro d’Italia win
The brand new Battaglin Roma highway bike is available in seven inventory sizes (XS 48 – XXL 60cm). It’s all-road-ready with large trendy tire clearance. Nevertheless it’s meant to really feel fast, with all-day endurance highway geometry, trendy lengthy Attain and fairly low Stack.
Battaglin Roma – Pricing, Cromovelato For You choices & availability
Officina Battaglin sells the all-new carbon and metal Roma all-road bike as a frameset, by way of their increasing seller community. For 5500€ they ship a inventory measurement Roma body {custom} completed within the single cromovelato deep chrome coloration of your alternative, plus an identical carbon fork, headset, seatpost clamp, and thru-axles. Frames are made to order, and like their different new Cromovelato For You semi-custom bikes. And Battaglin says they’ll ship your bike out in simply 4 weeks.
And naturally, certainly one of Battaglin’s new world premium companion bike outlets will deal with your {custom} construct. The, they’ll flip your new Roma body into an entire trendy highway bike.
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