Officina Battaglin confirmed us two all-new bikes at Eurobike – this premium mixed-material Cortina gravel bike, and a Siena all-road bike that makes fashionable handmade Italian metal surprisingly inexpensive. The Cortina is a reasonably large departure for Battaglin, well-known for his or her basic brazed metal bikes, now bonding a motorcycle with Italian-made carbon tubes, titanium tubes, and 3D-printed titanium lugs. The Siena then again, is a mainstay for the Marostica body workshop, however now modernized for all street driving and produced in batches to rein in value.
Battaglin Cortina titanium & carbon gravel bike, made-in-Italy
The brand new Cortina gravel bike is sort of distinctive in that it retains the basic solid lugged seems of Battaglin’s conventional street bikes, however eschews each brazing and metal for an all-new development optimized for a contemporary gravel bike.
The lugs themselves are 3D-printed titanium, formed to match the custom-drawn & butted Columbus Hyperion 3AL-2.5V titanium tubeset and the made-in-Italy solid hi-mod carbon tubes. And since they had been already bonding the carbon into the ti lugs, Battaglin determined to bond the tit tube & ti lugs collectively as a properly, making a string joint with out subjecting the titanium to the excessive temperatures of welding.
This allowed Battaglin to craft the Cortina from exceptionally skinny tubing. It’s so skinny in reality (simply 0.6mm thick at their thinnest level), that they’ve to strengthen the bottle cage mounting factors with structural carbon plates to distribute the burden of a bottle over a bigger floor space.
It’s true that Battaglin’s new Cortina is the primary bike from the storied Italian frame-building workshop to be produced from carbon and titanium. However it isn’t their first totally bonded body. That milestone would go to the Roma street bike that debuted final summer season, sharing very comparable development and styling, however with Columbus metal tubes, 3D-printed stainless lugs & comparable carbon tubes.
Tech particulars
The brand new Battaglin Cortina gravel bike options 700c x 50mm tire clearance from straight seatstays and dramatically formed chainstays.
It will get a T47 threaded backside bracket, totally inside routing by means of the headtube,12mm thru-axles, flat mount disc brakes, and a UDH.
Battaglin Cortina gravel bike – Pricing, availability & choices
The Cortina is 100% handmade in Italy, and is available in 5 inventory body sizes (XS-XL). Pricing begins at ~5490€ (4500€ excluding VAT) with an ordinary brushed end to the titanium tubes & lugs. However since Battaglin loves their distinctive shiny cromovelato end, you’ll be able to at all times add some deep mirrored coloration to it, as an upcharge.
Officina Battaglin makes the frames to order. However they do a fairly good job of turning bikes over rapidly, so an ordinary end bike might be able to ship in as quick as one month’s time.
Battaglin Matera small batch Italian brazed metal gravel bike
We already coated the launch of the brand new manufacturing metal Matera gravel bike earlier this spring. However whereas wanting on the tremendous fancy Cortina, it’s additionally good to keep in mind that Battaglin builds far more inexpensive bikes in Italy, too.
It is a fairly fashionable metal gravel bike. Battaglin brazes it from {custom} Columbus Spirit HSS tubing with 50mm tire clearance, totally built-in routing, T47 BB, and UDH dropout.
And it is available in the identical 5 inventory sizes because the Cortina, however the Battaglin Matera sells for simply 2562€ (2100€ with out VAT) for the one coloration body and matching fork.
Battaglin Siena small batch Italian brazed metal street bike
Identical to the extra inexpensive Matera, Battaglin will quickly add a really comparable Siena street bike too. Like all of their bikes, the Siena is 100% made-in-Italy in Battaglin’s Marostica workshop.
The story is nearly precisely the identical, simply with extra typical endurance street bike geometry mixed with area for contemporary broad all-road tires for added versatility.
With clearance for as much as 700c x 35mm tires, the brand new Battaglin Siena will probably be excellent for mixed-surface street driving, fairly becoming as Siena the place Strade Bianche finishes after racing over Tuscany’s iconic white gravel roads.
Siena tech
The brand new Battaglin Siena will get all the fashionable requirements you may hope for in a light-weight brazed metal all-road bike: totally built-in routing, T47 BB, and UDH dropout, and naturally that 35mm tire clearance.
Though the Siena is supposed to be an inexpensive Italian metal street bike, Battaglin couldn’t resist constructing it up with the newest Campagnolo Tremendous Report 13 wi-fi groupset. What higher groupset for an Italian street bike than Campagnolo, proper? And if you happen to saved cash on the body, why not splurge of the gruppo and wheels!
However the Siena was additionally the primary time we received to see the brand new Campy groupset’s new direct mount hanger designed to suit UDH-equipped bikes. By eradicating one hyperlink from derailleur to border interface (like Shimano’s previous direct mount derailleurs did), Campy says it will enhance shift high quality.
Just like the Matera, the Battaglin Siena additionally sells for 2562€ (2100€ with out VAT) for the one-color body and matching fork – from 5 out there colours. The bikes hasn’t but launched formally, however you must have the ability to preorder one for supply later this summer season if you happen to contact Battaglin instantly.
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