Pinarello (1952 - present) is an Italian high finish bicycle firm in Treviso, Italy. The firm supplies mainly hand-produced bicycles. The firm tends to make bicycles for road racing, track racing and cyclo-cross. Pinarello has a history of sponsoring skilled teams that started in 1960 and continues at this time. They have sponsored various teams such as, but not limited to, Team Telekom, Banesto, Caisse d'Epargne, Prima Alliance and Fassa Bortolo. In the 2010 season, Pinarello will provide the newly formed Pro Tour squad Team Sky. 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, 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 Pi narello to victories that contain Milan-San Remo and 19 stages in the Giro d'Italia. Erik Zabel enjoyed extraordinary success upon a Pinarello wining six green jersey competitions upon a single at the Tour de France. Montello SLX The Pinarello Montello SLX model frameset was a single of the most responsive framesets of the mid to late 1980s as shown by its a number of wins in events such as the 1984 Olympic Road Race, Vuelta a Espaa (English: Tour of Spain) and the Giro dtalia and diverse stages of the Tour de France. The Montello was distinctive in the Pinarello line with brake cable routing by way of the top tube, chrome sloping front forks and a chrome rear triangle. The Montello SLX was offered in Team Red, Chrome Red, Cobalto Blue and Spumoni paint schemes. Plenty of of the Pinarello's from the mid 1980's have had their paint and decals restored by collectors as the original factory-applied decals had been notorious for flaking conveniently. The Montello was fabricated from Columbus SLX tubing. Columbus SLX is a butted tubing with rifling down the inside center of the tubes. This offered rigidity comparable to the a great deal more generally utilized SL tubing of the day, but with lighter weight. The bottom bracket was investment cast with the Pinarello logo and the dropouts had been produced by Campagnolo. Braze-ons for down tube shifters, front derailer and two water bottles had been offered. The attention to detail on the brazing and investment castings on this frameset had been very exquisite with GPT (for Giovanni Pinarello, Treviso) appearing in a variety of tasteful places. This frameset was suitable for stage races, lengthy road races and club rides. The sample shown in the photographs is a 55 cm (center of seat-tube to center of bottom bracket) 1987 Montello SLX that was professionally repainted and refinished in 1995. The seat tube angle and the head tube angle are both 73.five degrees. Wheelbase is 97 cm and the top tube is 55 c m. Un-retouched headbadge from 1987 Pinarello Montello SLX Note sloping chrome forks, Olympic decal, lug cutouts and Aero brake cable routing Note chrome rear triangle, GP engraving, cutouts on brake bridge, Pinarello signature and Aero brake cable routing 1987 Pinarello Montello SLX built with Dura Ace and Campagnolo C-Record. Repainted and refinished 1995 Jan Ullrich bike on Pinarello frame Gavia Subsequent to the successes of the Montello SLX, Pinarello departed from his standard production style with parallel seat and head tube angles and designed the Gavia. This resulted in a frameset that offered a great deal more saddle setback than the Montello or other Pinarello designs. Greg Lemond, the winner of the Tour de France in the years 1986, 1989 and 1990, actively promoted frame designs that pushed the saddle further back.. The Gavia was constructed of Columbus TSX tubing. This model was readily available in Team Red, Deep Blue with Pearl White panels and Pearl White with Fluorescent Splatter. 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. Frame Supplies Originally, all of the Pinarello framesets had been constructed of steel tubing. Pinarello utilized tubing created by Columbus for most of the 1980s but with tubing created by "Oria" showing up in the lower models in 1989. The very first time Pinarello utilized a non-Italian tube was when they utilized Tange Prestige tubing 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. All through the 1990s until 2004, Pinarello created frames from standard steel tubing making use of lugged construction, oversize steel tubing, oversize aluminum with TIG welded joints, magnesium and frames with a combination of carbon fiber and other supplies. In 2 005, Pinarello created their very first production all carbon fiber frame, the F4:13. Less Widespread Models Pinarello introduced the Marvel Frame circa 2003 and it was pretty related to the Prince. It utilized 7005 series aluminium and had a carbon rear triangle. As opposed to the higher-finish Pinarello it was readily available in fewer stock colors. Paris FP The Pinarello Paris arrived very first in the mid 1990s and was an all 7005 series aluminium bike with an aluminium fork which was later replaced by the aria carbon fork. As opposed to a variety of organizations Pinarello colour matched their carbon forks and rear stays to match the paint colours. For instance, a Fassa Bortolo bike would have blue carbon fork and seat stays. It was upon this frame that Jan Ullrich and Bjarne Riis claimed Tour de France victories. Winner of the 2007 "Editor's Option" award for a road racing bicycle by "Bicycling Magazine", the Pinarello Paris FP frameset is their premier monocoque, hig h modulus, unidirectional carbon fiber frameset. According to the editors at Bicycling Magazine, "...The 'compliant, brilliantly executed all-rounder' complete-carbon Pinarello Paris FP has proved its worth in the Classics and Grand Tours but is also perfect as 'a fast all-day bike,' with a 'refined ride and impressive comfort.' Those attributes demand no substantial compromise in stiffness or lightning-rapid handling. 'It's the most desirable combination of every thing,' was the definitive verdict..." The carbon fiber Pinarello framesets are conveniently identifiable with their exclusive "S" curvature of the front ONDA forks and rear triangle that help in absorbing high frequency vibrations. Current Offerings Pinarello currently produces the following race frames: Dogma 60.1 -- 60HM1K Torayca Carbon Fiber Dogma FPX -- Magnesium Prince -- 50HM1K Torayca Carbon Fiber FP7 -- 46HM3K Monocoque Carbon Fiber FP3 -- 30HM12K Monocoque Carbon fiber FP2 -- 24IM12K Monocoque Carbon Fib er FP1 -- Aluminum 6061T6 Triple Butted References ^ a b 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 ^ Bicycling Magazine, February 2007 External hyperlinks History of Pinarello on their internet site Categories: Cycle manufacturers | Manufacturing organizations of Italy | Organisations established in 1952 | Mountain bike manufacturersHidden categories: Articles containing explicitly cited English language text
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