If you’ve ever looked at a cargo bike and thought “nice, but could it be a bit more… Milanese?”, then today is your lucky day.
Danish cargo-bike disruptor Omnium and Italian bike brand Cinelli have teamed up to launch the Omnium x Cinelli Supercargo – a limited-edition steel cargo bike celebrating their shared love of fast city riding, messenger culture and carrying alarming quantities of stuff at improbable speeds.
The collaboration coincides with the Cycle Messenger World Championships 2026 in Milan – 27th May until 1st June – which both brands are sponsoring.
The Cycle Messenger World Championships – CMWC to its friends – is an annual urban cycling event that’s held in a different city each year. Riders test their skills in various competitions, many of which simulate everyday courier tasks. For example, this year’s CMWC features trackstand and trick competitions, alongside workshops and races.
The main race involves riders picking up and delivering items to locations around the city as quickly as possible. It is designed to simulate a cycle messenger’s normal workday, but in a competitive format. Other CMWC favourites include bike polo, sprints, skids, cargo bike race… and there’s a lot of partying involved too.
The first Cycle Messenger Championships took place in 1993, and although road.cc didn’t exist at the time, of course, we were writing about it as far back as 2010. Riders were due to race in Guatemala on a figure-of-eight shaped track called ‘La Ocha’, although it wasn’t used in the end due to extreme weather.
Here’s footage from the Alleycat event at last year’s CMWC in Sydney…
And here’s a taste of the 2023 CMWC from Yokohama, Japan…
Anyway, we’re getting sidetracked. We’re here to tell you about the Omnium x Cinelli Supercargo bike.
Cinelli says, “Just 120 of this limited edition Supercargo are being produced, each frame numbered and in an iconic colorway – Azzuro Laser, as featured on Cinelli’s Olympic and World Championship-winning Laser track bike.”
The Cinelli Laser was designed with a smaller-diameter front wheel and a larger rear wheel, intended to put the rider in an efficient aero position. It looked like it had been dreamed up by a sci-fi film director with access to steel tubing and strong espresso.
Cinelli says, “Built from a unique combination of Columbus and Omnium tubing, marking Omnium’s first use of Columbus on its bikes, the [Supercargo] frame blends classic Italian steel heritage with modern cargo functionality.”
You get a large load-carrying platform up front, an Omnium Wide Narrow crankset with a 42-tooth chainring, SRAM Apex shifter and derailleur, and SRAM Level TL hydraulic disc brakes.
Cinelli says the project is rooted in the same messenger culture that helped establish the its urban credentials. The Milanese brand has long been associated with urban riding and racing, championing several well-known fixed gear designs. The world’s first urban-specific performance track frame, the Cinelli–MASH, was released in 2009 and became an instant classic.
Omnium, meanwhile, was founded by Danish cycle courier Jimmi Bargisen in 2012 and has been building bikes for couriers and other urban riders since then – and even picked up wins at CMWC in 2018 and 2019.
“We both bring our unique skills and histories to this one — it’s a mashup of Omnium’s functionality and ruggedness blended with Cinelli’s Milanese design language, all driven by our shared passion and love for the global messenger community,” said Cinelli chairman Victor Luis.
The Omnium x Cinelli Supercargo is available in three sizes and retails for €3,500 (around £3,030) for a complete bike and €1,800 (around £1,560) for a framekit.
As mentioned, only 120 are being made so they could sell out before most of us have finished explaining to our partners why we definitely need a cargo bike with a track-bike paintjob.
Naturally, there’s merch too. Cinelli and Omnium have dropped a limited collection of clothing and accessories, as well as a messenger bag.
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