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Came back a few times to check again if I was too harsh with that marble paint and because I was sure I've seen a similar bike but I was sure it wasn't a Tommasini. The triangle reinforced fork helped me to remember the Modular, masterpiece of Andrea "Laserman" Pesenti (the man who built the Lasers) I have once posted, and look:




Since there are photos of the bike in its "Pesenti form" over the net, but seemingly not a single one as Tommasini besides the one posted by smallfrontwheel , it must be the rarest of rares.

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smallfrontwheel if you wonder about what model it is, it's a Carbitubo (if you just wonder how cool it is, hell yeah...), designed (many websites claim manufactured) by Alan. Actually a spit-out copy of Alan's Super Record in lo pro, minus the double, thin down tubes and for sure the lower head lug and BB shell to accomodate them, as Colnago being Colnago, unlike the other endless number of brands who sold badge engineered Alan frames (some even keeping the Alan pantos on lugs just changed the sticker), they had to have their own version. An article once claimed they are so rare, that when the guy called Ernesto himself, he asked back surprised, if he's really talking about a carbon twin tube pista lo pro, since he doesn't remember they made these. Then a few days later someone from Colnago called back to confirm they (he actually) built like 5 or so.

Here's another one, looks like it has a 24" front:


and a picture of my Alan Super Record for reference on the lugs and dropout (unfortunately not the carbon version) - it also fits your mention for the zunow pic regarding the background, in its initial form this poor bike really blended in well with the environment both looked like an after war picture.

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That real wheel looks even better in this beaten up shape compared to other pics in NOS state

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These two picture here were recently on ebay for like 100k (I don't even remember if USD or EUR, not that it matters - unfortuantely) each. The Mig-signed Banesto is still there if I remember, and the other was new never used and the only one produced in non-Banesto livery.

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Thats more or less about the whole Dosi heritage on the net when it comes to lo pros... awesome bikes indeed. But that Bianchi is also no joke.... even if its a different league.

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I always think about the Leader AX as one of the rather underrated Mosers... while "THE" Moser will always remain the Va Por La hora, many think, life just stopped there, well it's not. And man, those colors...

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Thanks, I must say, I understand why was all the hype around these Alans and the similars (TVT, Vitus) back then... in the above setup it is 8.6 kgs/18.96 lbs, and it had the 40th birthday last month (minus the cheating "modern" front wheel which is "only ~15 years old)... I have never ridden a top shelf bike, and most likely never will (especially not modern carbons weighing 5kg) but this thing flies.

This Benotto sums up everything why I'm green with envy about track bikes.... could not be simplier and cleaner...

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This would make a good panic room for most of us in this forum I guess. Any problem could occur, if I lock myself up here, its like asylum.

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There are a few interesting things going on here... anyone wants to make a guess?

noglider 

I don't often look in on this thread. Whenever I do, I get back aches.

malcala622

Whatever you guys might think, this isn't my front gate and bike

malcala622

The wife only allowed 1 bedroom wall be painted Celeste

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Thanks, these really make my eye pop, and they are good at something I really like... I really appreciate if someone can make something (be it bike, car cloth, painting, anything) which overall pleases my eyes from shapes/colors whatever I usually don't like... e.g. I'm sick of neon or vibrant colors besides marker pens and safety equipment, where it is the functional point, but, would the wonder ever happen that I could put my hand on a Lamborghini, I couldn't imagine I would go for any of the "normal colors I prefer on most of the cases". Pistacchio or Magenta or Neon Orange... Same with Bianchi, even when I had mine, I insisted, that the seafoam green is a horrid color, but it happens to be the most beautiful on the Bianchis... Would someone ever told me a few years back I might want a neon or magenta or burgundy racing bike, would have rolled on the floor shouting its not me. Once I missed out a buy on that last color version magenta frame for a laughable amount of money, needless to say I badly miss it.

Well as you like that neon bike, and also the FIR front, here's another pic of the same with black wheels. I guess its not any more common in black, but here the whites work better (plus I'm unsure about that rear...Usually these Moser wheels were Ambrosios). I still need the front wheel of the golden one the FIR Aria650c.

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There's definitely the organization behind those gates, its the factory gate. What caught my eyes is I have seen this bike many times in articles, but only yesterday felt somehow strange. Then it popped in, its not in the usual Mercatone yellow/blueish celeste, as it can be seen all over the web with Pantani but the pure green older color. The other interesting thing (at least for me) is the disc brake. Since yesterday I re-read one of the "factory visit" articles, where it is described, that this might have been the first road bikes with disk brakes. It was made for the Russian Evgeni Berzin, from titanium (the big tubes were folded from sheets) but he found it too heavy so it was not used (I wonder what "heavy might have meant back in 1996 on the top level). But this became the base for Pantani's machine. Anyway... cool as cool can be if you ask me.

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Tom, I guess its a confirmation that something is done properly here, a mostly lo pro thread could not get a better compliment.

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So the rest are Gios blue?

noglider 

True. No particular design is for everyone, and no one will like all kinds. I've always had an inflexible back, even when I was young.

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That's right, and on top there is another side of the whole thing. Just because one likes something, it does not necessary implies that 1., it is the best thing 2., he needs it as well.

There are people on forums talking about battleships or fighter planes... I could sit and watch the '61 Ferrari "sharknose" Formula car all day, but it doesn't mean it would make it or I would like it as a good daily commuter or shopper car.

Most of the bikes here we have (an most likely will) never see in our lives, but adore them for how they are made or look like, how rare they are, or what certain sportsmen achieved with them. While surely would be fun to just own all of them (like to own said Ferrari as well), with racing cars, bikes, motorcycles and plenty of other things it is senseless to put them on the scale seeking for sense in a real life context. These are still purpose-made racing equipment, and it didn't change just because they are affordable to a few more people than formula cars or jet planes. But I guess every person has a thing - not necessary a bike, anything - where there is the clear separation when one certain object triggers emotions and the other "more or less the same" one triggers rationality. In my case my road bikes are singing to my heart and eyes, but the city bikes talk to my A55, my neck and wrist pain, carry the kid around and bring home the stuff I shop. As said, your comment is a complement here.

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I like old ads like this... and Stelbel as well...

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While the frame is nice, I guess the seat steals the show here (both for the fans and the haters).

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Funny how the crank looks like they borrowed it from a kids bike. I guess that chainring would make my EGOist a cool lo pro... its almost big enough for a front wheel.

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must be something special...

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Looks like Tommasini was not the only one who jumped on the Pesenti Modular bandwagon.. unless its a Pesenti or Tommasini badge engineered for sponsor reasons. I guess we'll never know.

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Talking about "Laserman" Pesenti, he also contributed to the "Battaglin Piranha" shaped era as well... I've never seen this until now, but knew after the Laser times were over
and he started to make bikes under his name, and for others, he bacame a well respected pioneer in the carbon bike evolution with several patented solutions.

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One last for "yesterday"... it looks like it was the "as soon as we talked about it, I've found new pics" day.. I admit the more I look at it, the more I like this.
At first sight it immediately landed in a remote corner of my brain where I store memories of the expedimental Cannondale on skate wheels.