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The latest jewel of Italian craftmanship out of the Battaglin workshop is this ultra-limited edition Verona road bike, with gold-plated lugs and stays. Surely, this is a premium collector’s item, but wow does that shiny steel look great built up with the carbon of a mechanical Campagnolo Super Record groupset and those stealth edition Lightweight Meilenstein wheels!
Battaglin Verona 2022 limited edition gold-plated lugged steel road bike
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Battaglin created the Verona 2022 to honor the return of this year’s Giro d’Italia finish to the Verona amphitheater, the same place where eponymous founder of Officina Battaglin, Giovanni Battaglin won his Giro victory back in 1981.
This new limited edition bike is based on the standard edition lugged steel Arena 1981, which itself harkened back to Giovanni’s win inside the ancient amphitheater. As said by his son Alex Battaglin and now CEO of the custom bike workshop, “the city of Verona has changed Giovanni Battaglin’s life forever, laying the foundation for what we do today“. So since the Giro finish came back this year, they thought it deserved an extra limited update.
Tech details
The Verona 2022 is a custom-fit (after a personal consultation with Giovanni) lugged steel frameset made by hand entirely in Battaglin’s northern Italy workshop from Columbus SL tubes and cast lugs. It is finished in a high-polish blue cromovelato mirror-finish, before the lugs and stays get gold-plated. Battaglin describes it as an interpretation of the blue & yellow colors of the city of Verona’s flag.
Only 10 of the limited edition Verona 2022 bikes will be sold, with each complete frameset selling for 3800€, including a gold-plated individual number plate, Certificate of Authenticity, and delivery anywhere in the world. And if you want Battaglin to build it up into a modern classic superbike, they’ll be happy to arrange that with you directly.
Claim yours at: OfficinaBattaglin.com
Cory Benson is the EU Tech Editor of Bikerumor.com.
Cory has been writing about mountain bikes, enduro, cyclocross, all-road, gravel bikes & bikepacking on and off for over 25 years, since before several of these even had names in our industry.
Prior to that (and at times, concurrently), Cory worked as an Architect specializing in environmental sustainability, a IBD bike shop designer & consultant, an independent product designer, a bike shop mechanic, and a mountain biking instructor.
Based in the Czech Republic for over 15 years, Cory spends much of his time traveling around Europe, riding bikes, and meeting directly with many of cycling’s key European product developers, industry experts & tastemakers for an in-depth review of what’s new, and what’s coming next. A technical off-road rider at heart since the 1990s, Cory’s cycling has evolved to cover everything from the wide range of riding aero road bikes on dirt roads to thrashing enduro bikes in the European bikeparks & trail centers, with plenty of XC, CX & gravel in between.
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