some changes to the "zero"

Recently I've changed saddle, seat post and clinchers to the zero.
The old clinchers was really bad, the new Vittoria zaffiro are cheap but with a good grip.
Saddle and seat post was for the belted bike, but they fit better to the Zero, even if the white Concor is a little hard to keep for an everyday bike.

The visit of my friend Pio and his '69 Charger was the occasion to take some pics.

                                      

 

show time

In this week-end I am in Genova to a music fair.
I show the bikes and Christian of Plan B Motorcycles shows his motorbikes. 
The fair location is an amazing place to take some good pics! 

old memories

when I was young I raced in road bike, from 14 to 19 years old.
My first bike was an Edoardo Bianchi: a traditional steel frame with lugs, with the original "celeste Bianchi". It was a special series, the X4, with Columbus tubes and Campy Record group.
It was and old bike, and all my competitors used the shift levers, but I won the first race, so it was special for me! Unluckily I crashed the frame in a winter training, so it went to the junkyard.

The first year of "allievo" category I had a brand new Amelio Bianchi with a Shimano 600 group, an incredible improvement for me!

Second year of Allievo: new team, new bike. This time an aluminium frame, made for a local dealer with his own label, with Easton aero tubes and Ultegra group. I added an AdvancedPro carbon fork and a Look carbon seatpost. That was a good bike, not so heavy, rigid and reactive. I won a lot with her, and at the end of the season I bought, as a mule bike. This is the frame of the "zero", the fixed that I use almost everyday! 

The year after I changed category and team, so I had a new bike. Aluminium frame for the yellow Detto Pietro. Oria tubes, Ultegra group and Ambrosio wheels because it was the technical sponsor.

The second year of Juniores I had a very light aluminium frame, with Easton tubes marked as "Milani". Maybe it was too much light, and I broke two frame in a season, in the same area (the rear stay, near a small bridge close to the bottom bracket)

what is mosca bianca

mosca bianca is my passion and handcraft for bicycles, and mechanical stuff. I started from my personal race aluminium frame, that I used for road racing when I was young and I modified the rear-end to accomodate a fixed wheel, I added a new minimal two-tone colours, a bullhorn and the game begun! Now I play with frames, both aluminium and steel, and I like to give us a second chance to live again, but as a unique, customized, handmade bikes. Something simple but exclusive, a project that buzz in your head like a whitefly