Titici’s sixtieth anniversary Progetto Sessanta challenge is one other reminder that metal remains to be actual, celebrating handmade-in-Italy heritage with fashionable restricted version Strada highway & Sterrato gravel bikes. Out and in of the highlight, Titici has been crafting bike frames in northern Italy for six a long time. And with a comparatively latest resurgence of the model and all-surface resurgence of metal, it was time to name again to that heritage of metal bike constructing that laid the inspiration for work in different supplies – a contemporary highway bike ties again to the previous, and new gravel bikes look extra to the long run…
Titici Progetto Sessanta sixtieth anniversary Italian-made metal
“Custom and expertise, artwork and Italian craftsmanship of a fabric that for many years has been skillfully labored on the Castelnuovo di Asola plant, to create hand-welded frames and shipped all around the world, earlier than being put aside for extra fashionable supplies reminiscent of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber.“
This Progetto Sessanta got here out of two years of R&D collaboration between Titici & Columbus to create unique Spirit & Life tube units for the Strada highway & Sterrato gravel frames (respectively), every with Titici’s signature flattened toptube for added consolation. In metal bikes, they name it PAT.P (Plate Absorber Know-how Pressed), developed to cut back vibration earlier than it will get to the rider, with out compromising total body rigidity & efficiency.
Titici Strada metal highway bike
The road-going Strada is the lighter of the 2, produced from custom-shaped, triple-butted and super-thin Columbus Spirit tubing created solely for Titici. It’s made by hand in northern Italy by Titici with a basic mixture of TIG-welding and brazing.
The Strada is a basic Italian metal highway bike up to date for the trendy age with the outsized straight headtube that Titici developed for his or her Vento aero carbon highway bike, that includes fully hidden inside cable routing that passes via the straight 1.5″ headset into the within of the body.
In fact, the Strada will get a flattened PAT.P prime tube for consolation, plus fashionable flat mount disc brakes, 12mm thru-axles, 27.2mm seatpost, a T47 threaded backside bracket, and room for 28mm tires. Claimed body weight is 1990g (M), painted with all {hardware}.
Titici describes the Strada’s geometry as “made to race”, even when it guarantees unbeatable consolation.
Titici Sterrato metal gravel bike
Just like the highway bike, the gravel Sterrato will get its personal custom-shaped tubeset. This time it’s the marginally thicker, extra sturdy triple-butted Columbus Life tubing, once more developed solely for Titici with their PAT.P flattened toptube. The Sterrato is made by hand in northern Italy with an analogous of TIG-welding and brazing combine.
The Sterrato is extra of a flexible all-rounder in a position to be constructed up for crunching mixed-surface Euro backroads, as a full-tilt gravel racer, or loaded down as a bikepacking journey bike. All profit from that basic metal is actual really feel, enhanced by the additional PAT.P vibration-eating consolation enhance. We truly already teased the Sterrato final summer time when it debut Shimano’s uncommon polished silver GRX group – and that bike remains to be formally out there in ultra-limited portions for 6000€ full.
However the Sixtieth Venture additionally brings a manufacturing model of the brand new metal Titici gravel bike. Just like the highway bike, the Sterrato inherits a straight outsized headtube from its carbon Relli gravel analog, now fully hiding totally inside cable routing contained in the metal body via the higher headset bearing.
The Sterrato will get its flattened PAT.P prime tube, flat mount disc brakes, 12mm thru-axles, toptube bag & rear rack mounts, a 27.2mm seatpost, and T47 threaded backside bracket – with clearance for as much as 700c x 40mm or 650b x 45mm tires. Claimed body weight is 1999g (M), painted with all {hardware}.
Titici Sessanta bikes – Pricing, availability & choices
Titici’s bikes are built-to-order, however the sixtieth anniversary Progetto Sessanta metal bikes are additionally supplied with inventory geometry in 4 sizes (S-XL) and premium inventory builds to maintain costs affordable.
A inventory Titici Strada metal highway bike frameset in basic metallic copper with blue accents round a silver panel paint job sells for 2990€ together with a painted-to-match carbon Columbus Futura Disc fork. Full Strada highway bike builds function a mechanical Campagnolo Report carbon groupset with Shamal Carbon wheels and Deda Zero100 cockpit for 7990€.
A inventory Titici Sterrato metal gravel bike frameset in Nineteen Nineties retro-fade Tinge 90 paint sells for 2590€ together with their carbon Gravel DCR fork with something cage mounts. Full Sterrato gravel bike builds function Campagnolo’s light-weight 13-speed Ekar carbon groupsets, plus Fulcrum Fast Pink 300 wheels and Deda Gravel100/Zero100 cockpit for simply 5490€.
