Customized metal bike builder Officina Battaglin makes an enormous leap into new supplies with an all-new carbon & metal Roma highway bike. By combining a lugged metal spine with light-weight solid carbon tubes, the Battaglin Roma guarantees that basic metal really feel at a lighter weight, fully 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 attainable with metal”, mixing that candy clean journey high quality of basic lugged metal with the lighter weight advantages of latest carbon fiber. The thought was to switch 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 unequalled consolation of metal comes with a sure weight penalty, a trade-off we’ve embraced as a devoted metal bicycle producer. Nonetheless, with the Roma venture, we got down to redefine what’s attainable with metal whereas staying true to the fabric’s roots. We’ve challenged ourselves to see how a lot weight we may remove with out compromising the distinctive journey high quality that solely metal can provide.”
– Alex Battaglin, Officina Battaglin CEO
The tip result’s a blended materials body stated to be on par with titanium body weights, however with the distinctive energetic really feel of a metal body.
Metal + Carbon development
The brand new Battaglin Roma body is fully hand-built in batches, in Marostica, Italy.
The body begins in two halves – prime & 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 basic silver chrome that types the idea of their cromovelato end.
Then, Battaglin bonds within the full set of Italian-made ultra-high-modulus T1000 solid carbon fiber tubes to finish the Roma body. Solely when you select the ultimate end, does Battaglin add the final colour tint layers of paint to the end. Lastly, topping it off with logos and a deep shiny clearcoat, whereas leaving the cast 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 massive fashionable tire clearance. However it’s meant to really feel fast, with all-day endurance highway geometry, fashionable 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 means of their increasing supplier community. For 5500€ they ship a inventory measurement Roma body {custom} completed within the single cromovelato deep chrome colour of your selection, 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, considered one of Battaglin’s new international premium associate bike outlets will care for your {custom} construct. The, they’ll flip your new Roma body into a whole fashionable highway bike.
