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Formula Bici: An Almost Cinelli Story


Recently we received some photos from a Cinelli collector asking whether a track frame he had recently acquired was a Cinelli or not.  It had a graphic schema similar to that of the supercorsa, utilised...

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NEW Product Focus: Gazzetta della Strada


Last year Cinelli designed and released the Gazzetta, a reasonably priced all-purpose track frame.  The design priorities were straight-forward and decisive and the result was a product which distinguished...

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Ciclisticapericolo RIDES: Maratona dles Dolomites Pt4


Salto in Lungo. Episode 4.La Maratona dles Dolomites 2010 vista con gli occhi di una Cinelli.“Il cacciatore d’ombra”Egli guarda dritto verso l’ignoto di questa selva oscura in cui si ritrovò,...

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Cinelli Tour @ Eurobike, R´bike, Expobici and Interbike


In the month of September Cinelli and it’s Milano family will take its travelling circus to four of the world’s largest trade fairs: Eurobike - Friedrichschafen, R’Bike – Lyon, ExpoBici – Padova...

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Ciclistapericoloso RIDES: Maratona dles Dolomites pt3


Wearing: Sidi Egro Carbon 2, the ones with the gloss black paint, cost: fuck-off kind of money. Wearing: black Sportfull windbreaker, thin as tracing paper, with carbon fibre inserts, fuck-off kind of...

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Ciclistapericoloso RIDES: Maratona dles Dolomites pt2


The morning is cold. But it doesn’t have the taste of a mountain morning. You can feel it. Waking up is crammed with fatigue and pre-race trance. The dangerous one asks around for somebody to sign him...

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Ciclistapericoloso RIDES: Maratona dles Dolomites pt1


SALTO IN LUNGO by Giacomo Pellizzari (http://americancyclo.wordpress.com/ )Friday 2nd July 2010.  Time: 21:55.  An old beat-up Peugeot station wagon drives alone along the winding hairpins of...

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Messenger exclusive colourway: Gazzetta Black


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A Uniquely Vibrant Ride: Cinelli XCR


Next time you visit a framebuilder or see us at a trade fair or race come up to our stand and have a look at our bikes made from Columbus XCR Stainless Steel tubes.  Once you’re done looking at...

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Underwater


Last week Matteo of UBM, Milan’s only bike messenger company, passed under my flat after work to pick up some Cinelli soft goods to accompany his Bootleg Mystic for the full “Cinelli-look” at ECMC,...

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NEW Bike shipping out: MASH Green


The new green MASH Cinelli is in!  This new colour way has hit stores in a whirlwind, we’ve already seen all sorts ofbuilds popping up on the net and from friends so we decided to build one up for...

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Fast Friday Staff Bike Focus: Carlo’s Strato


Wednesday lunch hour at Cinelli all the able are out for a quick 30km spin around the flatlands surrounding Caleppio di Settala, the Cinelli HQ.  Friday afternoon, though, it’s a whole other discourse,...

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Beautiful Madness


The authors of FIXED: GLOBAL FIXED GEAR BIKE CULTURE on why they love riding fixed (words by Max Leonard; pictures by Andrew Edwards). “In England – where there has to be a product – they ask: ‘Is...

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Vigorelli Competition: enter now!


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Bike Focus: Cinelli Vigorelli


With the launch of our 2010 Vigorelli Competition, we take a moment to explain the genesis of a frame that has become one of the new legends of a brand full of legends from each new cycling movement of...

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Red Hook Criterium 2010


Last month Cinelli sponsored the fixed-gear only  3rd Red Hook Criterium arguably the most competitive race to belong to the loosely categorised “fixed-gear movement”, having been won, in its...

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Cinelli Gran Fondo del Conero 2010


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MASH San Francisco: new stills


For the last ten years picking up a track bike and riding it around the city fast nodding your head at anybody else on one has felt like riding the cutting aesthetic edge of the times.  The...

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From one logo to another


The original Cinelli logo, created by Cino Cinelli and used up until 1979, consists principally of two elements: the “biscione” and the “giglio”, both traditional heraldic symbols.  The “biscione”...

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The Future of the Laser


From the 1992 catalogue:

When a new material or contruction method is introduced in Cinelli, the product is rethough and redesigned in the light of the new possibilities on offer, in complete
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Dear old fixed gear...



Last week two Cinelli employees attended an equipment testing session for Italy’s leading Professional team and another Professional youth development squad which has this season begun to use Cinelli
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What the world looked like from a track bike in ´93




(Mortimer in New York, 2003.  Photo Maria Laub)

MORTIMER, OWNER OF TRACK BIKE-SPECIFIC STORE KEIRIN BERLIN (www.keirinberlin.de), TELLS HOW IT WAS AND HOW IT IS:

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Mike Giant for Everyone



On February 25th 2010 Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea of Milan opens the first solo show in Italy by American artist Mike Giant. “I got the name Giant from skating with some friends, actually,
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Barry McGee x RVCA


We are very pleased to announce the inclusion of the Cinelli x Barry McGee Supercorsa Pista in a new important museum show, “Apocalypse Wow” at the MACRO in Rome.  The show aims to highlight the...

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Cinelli Fan: Dario Pegoretti



"When I first met Cino, he made the immediate impression, as one sometimes does, of being a man of other times.  I was just a junior rider at the time, this was in around 1972, and I was riding
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Cinelli: Advertisements without products since 1991


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