Pinarello It is bicycles that Ferrari is cars. Which cyclist wouldn't want to go on a route with the group wearing a Pinarello?
The Italian brand has become the object of desire of thousands of cyclists worldwide. They are elegant bicycles, of refined lines and since the 1990s they have dominated the podium of the Tour de France.
Perico Delgado, Miguel Induráin, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal are some of the cyclists who have dressed the yellow jersey in the Eliseos fields of Paris with a Pinarello.
But the truth is that the origin of this Italian brand is not at the top of the podium, but was born following the dismissal of the last winner of the
Maglia Nera of the turn. This jersey was reserved for the last classified of the general.
The Maglia Nera
Giovanni Pinarello He was an Italian cyclist from 1940 and 1950. He ran alongside Coppi, Bartali and Bobet during the call was
Eroic of cycling. However, unlike his compatriots, he was not a successful corridor.
Although he won more than 60 races at the amateur level, as a professional he reaped a discreet palm tree. However, in the middle of the rivalry between Coppi and Bartali, his charisma made him very popular among the fans and won the sympathies of the media.
In 1951, Giovanni Pinarello The Giro of Italy ended as the last classified of the general. By the then who ended last was dressed in the
Maglia Nera (Black jersey) and was invited to go around honor with the champion. Precisely that year was the last one in which this black jersey was delivered.
It was also the last year that Giovanni Pinarello He participated in the turn, since the following year his team fired him so that his place was occupied by a Coppi partner who had been fired from the team Bianchi.
The settlement, to make bicycles
The dismissal of the team meant Giovanni's farewell Pinarello of professional cycling. But also the beginning of one of the most prestigious bicycle brands in the world.
They gave him 100,000 lires for his dismissal, which was a fortune for the time. And Giovanni decided to invest in a workshop for the manufacture of bicycles in the town of Treviso.
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The Pinarello Acciaio Columbus by Franco Chioccioli.[/caption]
From the beginning its goal was to create lighter and faster bicycles. However, they had to spend some years to begin harvesting hits on the roads.
In 1961 CICLI Pinarello -This was the official name of the brand- he sponsored his first carrera Cyclist to break down gradually as a supplier for professional cyclists of the time. And in 1975 Pinarello He won his first victory in the Tour of Italy.
The 'sword' of Induráin
The jump of
bicycles Pinarello In professional cycling it occurred in the 1980s, by the hand of two stars: Alexis Grewal and Perico Delgado.
The first won the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games (1984) riding a bicycle Pinarello. Four years later, Perico Delgado was proclaimed champion of the Tour de France with a bicycle of tubes as fine as his last name.
The 1990s was the great domain of Pinarello In the international platoon. The Italian brand was the bicycle supplier of the Banesto team with which Miguel Induráin won five consecutive tours.
The image of 'Miguelón' pedaling on the Burreloj bicycle as Pinarello He designed exclusively for him is part of the history of this sport.
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With the mythical
Sword, as this bicycle was called, Induráin starred in one of the greatest exhibitions in the history of the Tour de France. It was in the counterreloj stage of the 1994 tour between Périgeux and Bergerac.
There were 64 kilometers to fight the chrono that Induráin completed at a rhythm superior at 50 kilometers per hour.
His exhibition was such that at kilometer 15 he already took Tony Rominger a minute, his main rival. And in the 17 he folded to Lance Armstrong, then world champion!
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Photo credits: Eric Budas (Creative Commons License)[/caption]
Induráin's deed with
Sword Pinarello At that stage he made the French media nickname
Bergerac tyrant. A few months later, and after winning the room of his five tours, Navarro beat the record of the time at the controls of the
Sword.
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From Sky Telekom
In addition to their relationship with Banesto, Pinarello He decided to join a German team that at that time had run out of sponsor.
It was nothing less than the Team Telekom by Bjarne Rijs and Jan Ullrich, who would end up being the great dominator of the platoon during the end of the 1990s and early 2000s.
In addition, I also equipped the cyclists of the Italian Fassa Bortolo team, so the bicycles Pinarello They continued to climb to the top of the podium in the big races.
In Sydney's Olympic Games, the three cyclists who won gold, silver and bronze rode a bicycle Pinarello (Ullrich, Vinokourav and Kloden).
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The Pinarello Dogma with which Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France 2012.[/caption]
In recent years the relationship of Pinarello With the Tour de France he has intensified from the hand of Team Sky Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas wore the yellow jersey in the Paris Eliseos fields with a bicycle Pinarello.
Egan Bernal, winner of the 2019 Tour with the Team INEOS, gave him Pinarello His fourteenth tour of France.
Innovation in DNA
In addition to the elegance of their designs, competition and innovation have always been present in the Bicycle DNA Pinarello.
Your most representative model, the Pinarello Dogma, It stands out for being the first asymmetric bicycle produced in series. The tubes on each side are designed with different lengths to compensate for pedaling forces.
Another prominent element of bicycle design Pinarello They are your saber -shaped forks.
Giovanni Pinarello He died in 2014. As a cyclist, his most remembered milestone was the
Maglia Nera which wrapped in the 1951 turn after being last classified. As a bicycle manufacturer, his legacy is to have created one of the most competitive and winning marks of the road cycling, desired by both professional cyclists and amateurs.
Main bicycle models Pinarello:
