Francesco Moser Classic Road Bike 1980s

Among the small number of great champions who set up a bicycle production whilst still riding races is Francesco Moser, the 'Sherriff'.
In his professional years, Moser, one of the most winning riders ever, equipped his team with bikes that were labelled with his own name. Almost all of those team bikes were built by Ugo de Rosa.

Later, around 1977 De Rosa helped to transform the small workshop of Francesco Moser’s brother Aldo Moser into a high end frame manufacture. In the late 1970s the Family Moser started manufacturing professional Road bikes in Trento, northern Italy. When Francesco broke the world hour record in 1984, the cycling line was named 51.151 after the number of meters that were covered in this attempt.

Our Francesco Moser Classic Road Bike in its lovely 1980s style is proof that even bikes for ambitious amateurs were made with attention to detail. Instead of using cheap lugs or no name tubes, the Moser frame builders used the same nice cutout lugs as on top models. The straight gauge tubing comes from Italian specialists Columbus. These cold drawn tubes are thinner at the ends and thicker in the middle than butted ones.
To make the bike a real performer, they decided for a Campagnolo Record shifting paired with Gipiemme components. That way, it was possible to produce an ambitious amateur model without losing much on the performance side.

Our Moser is a nice 1980s bird and suitable for all kinds of activities, including L'Eroica festivals or similar events.