TEAM ENGINE11 TRIP TO ASIA (BANGKOK CRITERIUM)
TEAM ENGINE 11 TRIP TO ASIA (BANGKOK CRITERIUM)
ESSOR USA FLIGHT-WEIGHT SEAT POST BLACK
The Essor USA Flight-Weight Seat Post is one of the lightest seat posts on the market. Essor USA only utilizes high-quality components and materials: CNC-machined 2014 T6 Aluminum tube and precision-machined premium titanium bolts.
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GOD & FAMOUS | DFL BAR TAPE
Featuring a EVA Foam Bar Tape with DFL pattern for a constant reminder.
GIOVANNI OCCHIPINTI | LACREMO’
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
Two years ago I started to work in my laboratory in Lacremò.
Lacremò is the dialect noun for a neighborood of Finale Ligure , where I live. So Lacremò is a toponym.
I love to think of it in this way, as a point on a map.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
I started with a minimum manual knowledge due to my father massive experience as a worker in shipyard, mixed with my experience as a designer and the big will to learn.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
The passion for bikes and cyclism is a great motivation, we can’t forget that it has been an important part in the past of our country both for what concerns cycling and the cyclistic productions.
Bricklayers wins the ”Giro D’Italia”. Cyclist that becomes designers and succesfull businessmen.
This is a story made of people who had the chance to run unknown roads. The heroic aspect and the social emancipation that the bikes brought, it’s still bringing is a vector of noble values.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
Unfortunately modernism and hyper technicism have distort this aspect, and that’s why I choose a different road, a more romantic and emotive road without ending in the melancholy of vintage. The spirit of vintage cycling fascinates me and
I would like to link to the future.
That’s the theme of my research.
I really like to have a wide open view, to think the bike as a way transport, trying to value the most important aspects of the materials and their use.
The most important part of a bike is the frame, the frame must answer a need.
We should consider it as an extention of our body, at the same time as a driver and fuel.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
The frame is a complex product.
I’m in the planning and realization of frames, filled brazed and conjuctions .
I’m the businessman and worker of a small reality.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
I like to define my laboratory as an experimental laboratory of artisan production.
We not only produce, we study with an eye on past, the tradition , innovation , melting together other arts to create a unique results. To enjoy the personal experience of freedom.
Photo by Emanuele Barbaro
Sections, tubes, angles, trail, wagon length, lowering the bottom bracket, are only few aspects that allows us to customize a frame, we add the measure and the new construction could start.
Everyone has its own style and interpretation, some answers come through experience, other through study and other with knowledge but there is quite never a unique response.
The only certain thing is that the bike is sweat and tears, it requires always a strong effort but it gives you more : new perspectives, wellness and freedom.
“Passion is the motivation of a unique object.”
Emanuele Barbaro
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TONI DE LA TORRE | RAW SANTAFIXIE TEAM
Photo courtesy of Steff Gutovska
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ACAMOCHI ART | GERARDO YEPIZ
Bike frame paintings
Mi Apartamento
Growing up in Ensenada-Tijuana was a uniquely strange experience. Fairly removed to what is commonly considered as authentic “Mexican” and being overwhelmed by California’s influence, I came across underground subculture in the mid 1980s that became the outlet for my creativity and sociopolitical consciousness . Discovering “DIY” also brought my interest to reach out and to network internationally. Without feeling confined into geographical traps, I was able to gravitate freely, focusing on quirky and spontaneous nature of every day life. Feeling the urge to testify and to record interpretations, I sought out to freeze ephemera, making the impermanent permanent, the intangible something anyone could grasp and hold onto.
I’m interested in the exploration of mass produced waste and urban environments. I experience its intervals and document alterations found in weathered mechanical patterns and compile them into humorous poetic compositions. This is also a very healing process. Filtering emotions while using discarded materials represents a new contemporary identity of what it means to be Mexican, projecting a daring vision of self and the internal struggle, breaking the mold and creating a brave new example for future generations.
gErardo yEpiz
Tijuana Rider
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STAY ALIVE PARIS | GET ME TO THE AIRPORT!
“June 2015, i took a trip to Paris to document Couriers for an ongoing photo collection of mine.
This short video is about my last day in Paris, where i asked Sadio to get me to the airport before my plane back to NY took off without me! I couldn’t depend on a cab or the trains so i rode my bike”.
At the time i was riding a LOW Pursuit Track Bike.
Carrying all my clothes + equipment in my Trustee Road Runner Messenger Bag “The Americano” handmade in Los Angeles.
+ a Freight Bike Bag so i can throw my bike on the plane.
TONI DE LA TORRE | RAW SANTAFIXIE TEAM
OFFICIAL SPONSORS
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WAU – We are united
MODEL DESCRIPTION
Frameset: Dosnoventa Detroit2 (Custom Color)
Wheels: HPLUS Son + BLB King
Tires: Continental GP4000
Handlebar: DEDA Zero100
Grip wrap: Siliconegrips
Stem: Thomson 90mm
Saddle: Selle Italia SLR Carbon
Seatpost: Thomson Elite
Clamp: KCNC SC9 Road Pro
Crankset: SRAM Omnium 165mm
Chainring: Miche Primato Avanced
Pedals: Mavic Zxellium Elite
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TONI DE LA TORRE
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Bike check photo credits of Steff Gutovska
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Race photos
Ori Vermell
Chiara Redaschi
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2016 STOKE ARMA WHEELS
Shawn Remy
A look into my new Carbon Tubular wheel set from ARMA WHEELS.
FFWD | FOUR-T FOR TRACK
FFWD is well established on the track, delivering high quality and performance to top athletes including World Champions. The already broad range of track wheels that FFWD Wheels offers is now extended with an all new wheel set. Besides the well known FIVE-T front wheels there is now a four spoke wheel set.
The FFWD FOUR-T brings optimal aerodynamics and stiffness but can be perfectly handled in peloton races on the track.
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