It’s Friday at Eurobike, the feet are tired now and the camera is rapidly filling with photos of shiny bikes, but I’ve just stopped for five minutes for some much-needed coffee, which gives me time to share some of the nicer bikes I’ve spotted this morning.
Mason Resolution with new Hope wheels and cranks
Mason’s Resolution was taking pride of place on the Hope Technology stand. It’s fitted with the new Aperture2 thru-axle fork and it’s been built up with some brand new Hope components, including a new RDThirty carbon fibre wheelset that is still a prototype.
It has a wide profile disc-specific rim and is tubeless compatible, with Por R54 Disc hubs and CX Ray bladed spokes.
Also new and still in prototype form is the RC Crank. It uses a 5 bolt 110 BCD spider with a 149mm Q Factor and is available with 170, 172.5 or 175mm crank arms. It’s pictured in single ring guise and is paired with Hope’s own massive 10-40t 11-speed cassette.
Koga Colmaro
I’ve got a soft spot for a nicely put together aluminium frame, and here’s the new Koga Colmaro. It’s an endurance disc road bike but adaptable if gravel is your thing, the pictured bike is the Colmaro Gravel racer with a SRAM 1×11 drivetrain.
It features an aluminium frame with a carbon fork, wide tyre clearance – up to 35mm – and disc brakes using the now common flat mount standard. There are mudguard mounts hidden neatly on the frame and fork and an integrated seat clamp in the top tube maintains the clean lines.
There’s full internal cable and hose routing including in the new carbon fibre fork. It’s using thru-axles at both ends. The geometry has been intended for endurance riding, so expect a shorter top tube, longer wheelbase and taller head tube than out-and-out race bikes.
Koga is calling it a prototype but it looks pretty finished to us, so we expect production bikes should be ready fairly soon. There’s a press-fit bottom bracket and a tapered head tube. There’s also a version of the Colmaro in a more conventional road build with Ultegra and 28mm tyres.
Gios
Gios is an Italian bicycle brand that you possibly haven’t heard much about here on road.cc, which is a shame, as it makes some very pretty road bikes. This is its most modern mode, the Gress, which features aero shaped tube profiles with Toray T-700 carbon fibre and a tapered head tube.
Open UP
The Open UP was launched this time last year and it’s still turning heads this year, especially in this bright orange with a very snazzy finishing kit, which includes a custom painted 3T stem and seatpost with matching fork decals.
We’re not sure yet if the 3T parts are available to buy but we’re certainly going to try and find out.
Passoni
Passoni is an Italian bicycle company that makes some of the most expensive titanium frames we’ve ever tested here at road.cc. It also does carbon fibre but it’s not like any other carbon frame, it uses a process that weaves titanium into the carbon fibre.
Cipollini
Cipollini’s stand at Eurobike is always mobbed, and it was today when we swung by. The NK1K, the company’s top-end carbon fibre race frame, was centre of attention and it’s available with disc brakes or regular rim brakes, as pictured here. And also, didn’t camo go out of fashion a couple of years ago? Clearly Mario didn’t get the memo…
De Rosa
I’ve saved the best (for me at least) till last. There were some carbon fibre superbikes on the De Rosa stand, but my eye was drawn by this gorgeous Nuovu Classico. It’s how road bikes used to look when steel was the only material available to bike companies, with skinny tubes and an even skinnier fork, with some beautiful lug work.
Here’s how the company describes this frame on its website: “Strength, determination and tradition are the words that describe the Nuovo Classico steel frame, a made to measure for cyclists of discerning taste who appreciate classic styling and exclusivity.” Hard to argue with that I reckon.
Not enough De Rosa bike porn for you? Then how about this SK Pininfarina?
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5 thoughts on “Seven pretty bikes from Eurobike 2016 – Mason, De Rosa + bonus Video, Passoni, Cipollini, Open and more”
Interesting that they’re
Interesting that they’re mostly fairly restrained, traditional-looking machines, not blingy bikes.
I’d post a picture of how
I’d post a picture of how much better a bike like that De Rosa would look with shiny metal cranks, mechs, brakes and levers, but googling for “blue steel” just returns hundreds of pictures of Ben Stiller looking constipated. It makes me feel like I am taking crazy pills.
C’mon, never heard of Gios? –
C’mon, never heard of Gios? – They were one of the best known pro-bike brands in the 70/80s particularly when ridden by Roger deVlaminck and very popular in the low countries. Sadly the Gios product you’re featuring is a rebranded generic frame – go to GiosTorino for genuine, Italian-made product.
@montydog … Gios Torino in
@montydog … Gios Torino in “that” blue and c record …. class 🙂
it’s not a real Gios, Gios
it’s not a real Gios, Gios Torino sold the name to the Chinese, if you want the real deal you have to go to Italy and visit Aldo Gios