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Part 15 - September 15-18:
Rudy Project rocks with two new Italian eyewear offerings for 2007
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By Tim Maloney in Milan, Italy
Treviso-based Rudy Project has always been on the cutting edge of design and style with its sport optics and for 2007 the company will launch two new styles that will be well appreciated. Debuted at this years Tour De France by Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Fondital), who won the Best Young Rider, and Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank), who was awarded Best Climber, Rudy Project's new Syluro model has plenty of features liked by top riders. Created with ultralight CarboGrilamid frames, with hidden hinges and the Ergonose3 adjustable bridge, Syluro has Quick Change lens technology that is especially adapted to prescription lenses. Syluro fits poly-carbonate RPOptics lenses, with Rudy Project's patented easy-in, easy-out, lens system which allows prescription lenses to be clipped in behind the outer lenses.
For the two wheel fashionist and style dudes, Rudy Project's new SportMask model has a fashion sensibility with sport optical performance. SportMask features large, wraparound lenses with stylish tone-on-tone tints. For that presto-changeo effect, Rudy Project's new SportMask has Quick Change lens technology and a durable frame made in tough Grilamid TR 55 LX material. Shown here in Pink Girl colorway, the new SportMask brings the catwalk to the bike ride!
Black Hole Sun
Italy's FRM is a cult brand popular among the Gran Fondo crowd that makes a
wide range of extra light and highly engineered CNC machined components. At
the 2006 EICMA Milano show, FRM had a special super-light road bike on display
that weighed in at 5.38kg for a full bike. Blak Hole (sic) 5.0 has an Italian
made high modulus unidirectional 'fasciata' (wrapped) carbon fibre frame, with
a 1 1/8" integrated headset. It also features a unique 37 x25x 7 integrated
bottom bracket that is compatible with any crank system and saves 40-grams by
not mounting external bearing races.
Shown here with FL-R24 Aerolite wheels, SRAM Force groupset, Black Hole 940 carbon monoblock style stem, Black Hole 65-gram monocoque carbon fibre saddle and CL2 Team brakeset, FRM's Blak Hole was certainly one of the most unique and lightest bikes on show in Milano.
San Patrignano + Pesenti = Power To Help
Andrea Pesenti has turned his four decades of bicycle design experience in helping
recovering substance abusers learn how to build high-end bicycles at the San
Patrignano community in San Vito Valsugana, Italy. Founded in 1978 by Italian
philanthropist Vincenzo Muccioli and a group of volunteers in Rimini, San Patrignano's
mission is to welcome and rehabilitate socially marginalised individuals and
drug addicts without any social, political, or religious discrimination.
The program aims at putting an end to addiction and social marginalisation through individualised paths to recovery based on dignity, honesty, responsibility, respect for oneself and others. At three sites in Italy, San Patrignano uses professional training as an instrument for the total social rehabilitation of the people welcomed into the community. In San Vito works with recovering addicts to create some of the most distinctive and special bikes on show at Milano.
Photography
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Images by Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews.com
- Too Light? FRM's Black Hole isn't street legal as it's under the UCI's minimum weight limit
- Sleek, smooth lines for FRM's wrapped Black Hole carbon frame
- Close up look at FRM's unique Black Hole stem
- San Patrignano's Echo is Andrea Pesenti's design for a sloping "fasciata" (wrapped) carbon fiber frameset.
- San Patrignano's Delta is blending of lightweight Tig welded steel with a carbon fiber seat tube
- Detail of lug work on San Patrignano's Delta with steel and carbon fiber blend
- Andrea Pesenti & Friends: Pesenti (center) gets a visit from Giro d'Italia boss Angelo Zomegnan, Italian Cycling Federation president Renato Di Rocco and retired journalists Gianfranco Josti
- Pretty In Pink: Rudy Project's new SportMask, shown in a stylin' Pink Girl colorway
- The Choice Of Cunego: Rudy Project's new Syluro shades
