De Rosa has launched its latest bike, the De Rosa 70, with a frameset claimed to weigh 730g, a 280g fork and aero design features.
De Rosa says the new bike took 22 months from idea to development with “maniacal attention to every single detail”, resulting in “the most evolved De Rosa ever”.
The heart of the new bike is 12k high-modulus carbon fibre for stiffness, which is then wrapped in 1k unidirectional carbon.
There’s full cable integration into the head tube with an FSA Vision single-piece bar-stem designed specifically for the bike.
A hexagonal seat tube sits close to the rear wheel.
De Rosa says its CFD modelling shows the new bike to be its most aero yet.
Name celebrates the life of Ugo de Rosa
The 70 name celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of the De Rosa brand by Ugo De Rosa, who died in March this year.
Like Colnago (whose C68 the new bike has upstaged by a couple of years), De Rosa’s history goes back to the golden age of racing on steel-framed machines, with De Rosa a favoured framemaker of Eddy Merckx among others.
De Rosa claims that of 100 riders who started the 1974 Giro d’Italia, 80 were on frames it made, although it was customary for frames to be badged with the team bike sponsor's name.
The brand's association with the Pininfarina design house has a slightly shorter history, going back to the De Rosa SK Pininfarina, which was launched in 2016.
Pininfarina is another Italian brand with a long history, stretching back to the 1930s. It originally built custom bodies for cars and is associated with some of the classic designs of the 1950s and 1960s, although it’s now expanded to provide design services across a wide range of industries.
High-spec builds
As you’d expect from an Italian premium frame builder, the De Rosa 70 is offered with an array of top-spec components. For the groupset, you can choose between Campagnolo Super Record, Shimano Dura-Ace and SRAM Red AXS.
You can choose Campagnolo Hyperon Ultra 37mm mid-profile wheels, as well as Campagnolo Bora Ultra WTO, Fulcrum Speed and Vision SL, with Vittoria Corsa N.EXT tyres. De Rosa offers a choice of saddles from Selle Italia and Fizik.
There's no word on price, but you know what they say: if you have to ask…
