Product Description
Barely used, absurdly rare, and super high end sub 17-pound steel road racing bike from the late 1990's or early 2000's made in the Italian Masciaghi workshop by the legendary Giovanni Pelizzoli (founder and framebuilder of Ciöcc). The frame is made from a modern wonder steel tubeset called Ultra-Foco Thermachrom (which was tweaked & renamed Spirit in 2004). It has a straight forward high end build based around a FULL 2011-2014 Campagnolo Record 11 speed carbon / titanium drivetrain down to the chain/cassette, plus Campy Neutron wheels and 3T/Thomson/Deda elsewhere. The paintjob is glorious & needs to be seen in person to be appreciated. The silver center sections organically fade into the black in a shine of glittery dark silver which makes the silver sections seem like they're lit from inside! Sitting at 16.9 pounds as photographed, it would be possible to get it under 16 pounds by throwing some money at it.
The tubing is heat treated triple butted, and crazy thin at .038mm at the thinnest spots (round tubes are.05/.038/.05 but I can't find details on this shaped tubing)! The tubing is heavily shaped and oversized giving it the strenght to allow this ultrathin tubing, making it look like aluminum. Luckily the headtube is round, keeping it looking vaguely like a classic road bicycle frame. It has integrated headset cups in a standard sized headtube, mated to a carbon fork.
This bike's closest thing to a model name is Coppi UF Integrated Reparto Corse. Coppi's model names were easy enough to figure out with their aluminum frames (Galaxy, K19, Team Polti KT2 with Altec2 tubing) but their high end steel frames don't appear to have specific model designations. They seem to be identified by their tubing than an actual model, such as the Coppi Genius had Columbus Genius tubing. This one's only potential model name in the decals is UF Integrated, which seems to refer to Columbus Ultra Foco tubing and integrated headset.
Some history around the brand, the estate of Fausto Coppi sold the rights to produce bikes under the Coppi name to Masciaghi (and maybe other Italian builders) in the very early 1990's. The high end frames that Pelizzoli built are easily identified by the Reparto Corse decal. They made some lower end bikes, which are easily identified by having a generic replaceable derailleur hanger and sometimes a seattube that requires a separate seatpost binder clamp. The high end frames made by Pelizzoli had classically styled Italian dropouts with integrated derailleur hanger, as well as integrated seatpost binders.
Condition
This bike came to me from a collector who had way too many bikes, and this one just barely got ridden! It is VERY close to perfect. The only wear to note is driveside fork leg decal wear from a cyclometer sensor and two TINY discrete little paint rub marks on the driveside top tube between Coppi's signature and the C in Coppi. They are only visible at certain angles and are just barely noticeable. All components show barely any use matching the frame's condition. Bar tape is brand new. Cables/chain/cassette/chainrings show almost no use. Professionally tuned and ready to ride. This bike isn't new, but it's damn close.
Geometry & Frame Info
- Effective top tube: 54cm
- Seat tube: 54cm (c-t)
- Head tube: 151mm
- Chainstays: 407mm
- Seat angle: 74 degree
- Head angle: 72.5 degree
- Serial number: 21 C3 58 B54
- Color: Black, silver, red accent
Components
- FULL Campagnolo Record 11 speed down to the cassette and chain
- Crankset: 175mm x 50/34t
- Cassette: 11-23t
- Wheelset: Campagnolo Neutron (note different decals front/rear)
- Bars: Deda Newton
- Stem: 3T ARX Pro
- Saddle: Selle Italia SL
- Seatpost: Thomson
- Tires: Vittoria Rubino Pro
