Craftsmanship

Royal Asport "Poxolo", the first collaboration with Vincenzo Forgione, our frame builder.

This bike was a command by Osborn Metals, a french steel tubing manufacturer who's seeking to diverse its business into the Cycling industry.

Osborn provided us with its entry level, single-butted steel tubes - the only ones available at the time of the order. The order: Build a made-to-measure gravel bike for Osborn's CEO, to be displayed at tradeshows.

I decided to go for an agressive, racing-oriented design, with an ISP integrated seatpost, raw steel finish, and Rotor 1x13 groupset. The goal was to highlight the Osborn tubes whilst provoking a "wow" effect...

As is, this bike weights 8.5 kg.

Vincenzo did a tremendous job mixing Osborn tubes with lightweight Columbus ones, then the parts do the rest, for instance the Magped carbon pedals.

The first public appearance of this bicycle has been at... the Paris Air Show back in June 2023. Yes, you read it right: A bicycle at the World-biggest airplanes exhibition.

Steel is real. It's just a matter of passion.