Customized Italian body builder Officina Battaglin has simply launched their first true endurance street bike – the brand new restricted version metal Grand Tour – and it’s constructed to go the space with all-road tire clearances. Whereas Battaglin is greatest recognized for his or her shiny chrome finishes, distinctive lugs, and basic street racing roots… most consumers of their premium handmade-in-Italy bikes will profit from fashionable high-volume tires too…
Officina Battaglin Grand Tour {custom} endurance street bike
Let’s not neglect that the namesake and founding father of Officina Battaglin,1981 Giro-Vuelta back-to-back double Grand Tour winner Giovanni Battaglin is now 71-years-old himself. And whereas lots of Battaglin’s prospects are youthful than the person himself, lovers of basic handmade Italian metal street bikes are typically fairly a bit older and fewer race-focused than these younger weapons racing round France proper now on carbon tremendous bikes.
If you will have a contemporary metal street bike custom-made for you nowadays, there’s little motive to not add the consolation of recent large street slicks on high of that basic forgiving metal body journey. And actually when you purchase a {custom} Italian metal street bike, it deserves to be ridden on a little bit of strade bianche gravel too, proper?
For many people, the sense of freedom that comes with exploring unfamiliar and unbeaten roads is what makes a protracted journey worthwhile. We designed the Grand Tour to fulfill this longing for exploration.
– Alex Battaglin, Officina Battaglin CEO
Tech particulars
The brand new Grand Tour is fillet brazed from a custom-drawn outsized Columbus GB81 tubing in Officina Battaglin’s Marostica workshop in northern Italy. Its signature characteristic past that shiny {custom} metal is clearance for as much as 700c x 35mm tires. That’ll certainly increase rider consolation, all-weather grip, and diminished rolling resistance, plus it makes it a succesful all-road bike that may transfer from easy asphalt to quick dust & gravel roads, too.
You get fully-internal cable routing by way of the outsized 1.5″ DCR headset, barely dropped seatstays under a basic spherical seatpost with its common exterior clamp, a threaded backside bracket, flat mount disc brakes, and 12mm thru-axles.
True to Battaglin type, the Grand Tour is available in considered one of two high-gloss polished cromovelato colours normal, and with the simplest subdued logos we’ve seen on considered one of Officina Battaglin’s bikes. Simply the pantograph portray of the headbadge emblem, a easy Officina Battaglin label on the highest tube, your restricted version quantity plate on the highest of the downtube, and slightly bas-relief Italian flag on the chainstay.
Battaglin Grand Tour – Pricing, choices & availability
The restricted version Battaglin Grand Tour body equipment sells for 4000€ – together with Officina Battaglin’s Certificates of Authenticity signed by Giovanni Battaglin – however solely 50 can be out there this 12 months. That will get you the custom-sized (following a distant session with Giovanni & Alex) metal body its individually numbered plate and carbon fork completed to match in your selection of ultra-shiny crimson or blue cromovelato. Plus, the body equipment additionally features a Deda Superzero carbon seatpost, Superzero DCR carbon handlebar, Superbox stem, DCR headset with full inner routing guides, plus light-weight alloy thru-axles.
Battaglin is all the time blissful to work with consumers to place collectively a personalized full bike construct and may ship it worldwide. This pattern construct with Shimano Ultegra Di2, Deda carbon ending equipment, and 30mm Conti GP5000 tires is claimed to weigh in at simply 8.5kg full.
