Metal bike builder Officina Battaglin has an all-new, no-nonsense made-in-Italy Matera gravel bike of their line-up, mixing basic and fashionable tech to “sort out even essentially the most difficult gravel terrain”. Fillet-brazed from mild Columbus Spirit HSS metal, Battaglin give the brand new Matera a greatest-hits of contemporary gravel tech: huge 50mm tire clearance, inside routing, and a UDH, for instance.
Plus, every bike is finished-to-order for the customer, so that you get to choose the paint for a {custom} search for your new Italian-made gravel bike…
Officina Battaglin Matera fashionable Italian metal gravel bike
Named and impressed by the oldest metropolis in Italy – claiming steady settlement for one thing like 12,000 years – Battaglin created the Matera to tackle any floor. Campy might say they’d been making drivetrains since earlier than there have been paved roads. Effectively, Matera might say they’ve been inhabited since earlier than gravel roads and even wheels. (That occurred 4-5 millennia BC, in keeping with Wikipedia).
“There’s an virtually philosophical connection between Matera’s historic stone dwellings, etched instantly into the limestone, and a metal body handmade in Italy. Simply as Matera has withstood the check of time, handcrafted metal frames have maintained their particular place in biking regardless of newer supplies coming and going. We’ve created a motorcycle that connects riders to the terrain in the identical manner Matera’s historic buildings hook up with the panorama – by concord, not domination.”
– Giovanni Battaglin, Officina Battaglin founder and double 1981 Giro d’Italia & Vuelta a España winner
Tech particulars
totally made in-house by Officina Battaglin in Marostica in northern Italy
fillet-brazed from custom-draw Columbus Spirit HSS tubing
full carbon tapered steerer fork
1.5” straight headtube for seamless absolutely built-in, inside cable routing
1x solely, suitable with mechanical or digital shifting
T47 threaded backside bracket
flat mount disc brake solely
12mm thru-axles
UDH dropout
max 700 x 50mm tire clearance
obtainable in 5 inventory sizes (XS-XL)
Battaglin Matera gravel – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new metal Matera is on the market now instantly from Officina Battaglin in Marostica. Or decide one up from their worldwide supplier community of boutique bike retailers. Battaglin {custom} finishes every customary geometry frameset for every purchaser, with pricing beginning at 2100€ earlier than taxes or tariffs for worldwide gross sales (2562€ with VAT of their native Italy). For that value Battaglin provides the Matera Minimal, in your alternative of 5 customary earth-tone paint colours. Or additionally, for an additional 1000€, Battaglin provides you the Matera Choose with their iconic shiny coloured chrome Chromovelato end in 15 attainable colours to make this bike actually pop!
For a ‘very restricted time’, Battaglin is providing an reasonably priced mechanical Italian construct equipment for simply 980€ extra (pre-tax). After which, that features the Campagnolo Ekar GT 1x 13-speed groupset (170mm, 42×10-48T), alloy Deda cockpit & carbon seatpost, a 40mm deep carbon Fulcrum Velocity Lite wheelset, and your alternative of 45mm or 50mm Maxxis Ravager tires.
Battaglin finishes each framesets and full bikes to order, so every has an approximate 4-week leadtime out of your order.
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