Pinarello
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Bicycles |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Founder(s) | Giovanni Pinarello |
| Headquarters | Treviso,, Italy |
| Products | Bicycles and related components |
| Website | pinarello.com |
Cicli Pinarello S.p.A. (1952–present) is an Italian bicycle manufacturer in Treviso, Italy. It supplies mostly hand-made bicycles for road racing, track racing and cyclo-cross.
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[edit] History
[edit] Models
[edit] Montello SLX
The Pinarello Montello SLX model frame was one of the most responsive of the mid to late 1980s as shown by wins in events such as the 1984 Olympic Road Race, Vuelta a España (English: Tour of Spain), the Giro d’Italia and stages of the Tour de France.[1] The Montello had a brake cable through the top tube, chrome sloping front forks and a chrome rear triangle. The Montello SLX was in red, blue and Spumoni.[2] Pinarellos from the mid-1980s have had their paint and decals restored by collectors as factory-applied decals flaked.[3]
The Montello was fabricated from Columbus SLX butted tubing with rifling down the inside center. The bottom bracket was investment cast with the Pinarello logo and the drop-outs were by Campagnolo. Braze-ons for down-tube shifters, front derailleur and two water bottles were provided. The GPT logo (for Giovanni Pinarello, Treviso) appeared in many locations.
[edit] Treviso
The Pinarello Treviso was the second-in-line model under the Montello SLX in the mid-to-late '80's. Built with Columbus SL tubing, it featured a painted fork and seat stays, with chromed chain stays. This model also featured the sloping for crown. On the road it is easily distinguished from the Montello by the single chrome chain stay.
[edit] Gavia
After the Montello SLX, Pinarello departed from his standard production design with parallel seat and head tube angles and created the Gavia. This provided more saddle setback than the Montello or other Pinarello designs. Greg Lemond, the winner of the Tour de France in 1986, 1989 and 1990,[4] promoted designs that pushed the saddle further back.[5] The Gavia was constructed of Columbus TSX tubing. This model was available in red, blue with pearl white panels and pearl white with fluorescent splatter.[2]
[edit] Paris FP
The Pinarello Paris in the mid-1990s was a 7005 series aluminium bike with an aluminium fork later replaced by the aria carbon fork. It was upon this frame that Jan Ullrich and Bjarne Riis won the Tour de France. Winner of the 2007 Editor's Choice award for a road racing bicycle from Bicycling Magazine, the Pinarello Paris FP is the premier monocoque, high modulus, unidirectional carbon fiber frame. In 2009, the FP6 replaced the Paris FP and F4:13. The monocoque frame uses the same mold as the Paris FP, but with different carbon fiber (30HM3K).
[edit] Frame materials
Originally, all Pinarello frames were steel. Pinarello used Columbus tubing for most of the 1980s but with tubing by Oria in the lower models in 1989. The first non-Italian tube was Tange Prestige for the US-based Levis Cycling team headed by Michael Fatka and ridden by Andy Hampsten, Steve Tilford, Roy Nickmann, Thurlow Rogers in the mid-1980s.[6] Throughout the 1990s until 2004, Pinarello produced frames from conventional steel tubing using lugs, oversize tubing, oversize aluminium with TIG welded joints, magnesium and frames of carbon fiber and other materials. In 2005, Pinarello produced its first all-carbon fiber frame, the F4:13.[7]
[edit] Sponsorship
Pinarello has sponsored professional teams since 1960. Teams include Team Telekom, Banesto, Caisse d'Epargne, Fassa Bortolo, Team Sky and Movistar Team.[8]
Alexi Grewal won the road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics and Jan Ullrich won a gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics on a Pinarello. Miguel Indurain (1991–95),[8] Bjarne Riis (1996), Pedro Delgado (1988), Jan Ullrich (1997) and Oscar Pereiro (2006) all rode Pinarello to victory at the Tour de France. Alessandro Petacchi rode a Pinarello to victories that include Milan – San Remo and 19 stages in the Giro d'Italia. Erik Zabel won six green jersey competitions on a Pinarello.
[edit] References
- ^ The History of Pinarello - bicyclerenaissance.com
- ^ a b GITA Sporting Goods, Pinarello Catalogue #65
- ^ RoadBike Review's Forum Archives
- ^ Tour de France 2007 - Stage by stage
- ^ Lemond G, Gordis K. "Greg LeMond's Complete Book of Bicycling" New York, NY, Perigee Books,1990
- ^ GITA Sporting Goods, Pinarello Catalogue 1989
- ^ 2008 Pinarello Prince Carbon - Competitive Cyclist
- ^ a b "Sponsors". Team Sky. http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17618_5792270,00.html. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
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