Bianchi and Scope are celebrating Bianchi’s a hundred and fortieth 12 months within the business with limited-edition choices of the Specialissima and Oltre. One is for all-out highway pace whereas the opposite balances efficiency on and off the pavement.
The Founder Version Bianchi Specialissima RC and Oltre RC see best-in-class elements and are extremely restricted. Each have Scope’s Artech 6.A wheels, the model’s high providing for highway and gravel racing.
Bianchi: The Founder Version
Bianchi was based in 1885 by Edoardo Bianchi in Milan, Italy. Since then, the model has established itself as a legacy within the biking business. 100 forty years later, the model celebrates its founder’s imaginative and prescient with restricted releases of the Specialissima RC and Oltre RC.
Every Founder Version bike could have a selection of two particular paint choices — Blue Italia and Celeste Spectrum. Blue Italia represents the royal home of Italy, whereas Celeste Spectrum is a surprising mixture of blue, purple, and inexperienced with an iridescent end.
These Specialissima RC and Oltre RCs even have particular markings, indicating their Founder Version standing. Each are marked with “999,” signifying a motorcycle collection created for skilled racers. The Letter “B” can also be integrated into the fork’s paint close to the headtube. Discovered on particular frames and components, a Bianchi “B” represents the model’s historical past and legacy.
Lastly, a restricted version stamp is on every bike, indicating its quantity out of 85. Solely making 85 frames to represent the model’s founding 12 months, 1885, these Bianchi Founder Version frames are very restricted.
Bianchi can also be not holding again on element spec, giving the Founder Version bikes a top-of-the-line therapy. Scope partnered with Bianchi to have a good time the Italian model’s imprint on the game, offering a spectacular wheel providing.
Scope Artech 6.A
Fitted with the Artech 6.A all-road wheels, these carbon choices are merely one of the best that Scope affords, with wheelset choices beginning at above $4,000.
The Artech 6.A wheels function Scope’s Aeroscale rim sample, a fish scale-like design the place the scales diminish in dimension as they get nearer to the within of the rim. This design claims to create considerably much less drag throughout the wheel whereas providing elevated stability.
Scope saves weight by reinforcing the carbon layup across the spoke holes, however not the whole lot of the spoke mattress. In addition they use Carbonlite AeroSpokes to maintain general weight down whereas retaining stiffness and power.
In addition they use their Artech hub, with 3D printed hub shells from Scalmalloy, a light-weight scandium alloy. The result’s a high-performance hub with an unimaginable strength-to-weight ratio, paired with their F1-inspired Diamond Ratchet SL freehub physique.
Scope Artech 6.A Particulars
- 65mm profile
- 25mm inner width
- 33.7mm exterior width
- 29-71mm tire width compatibility
- 30mm optimum tire width
- HG physique
- 36T Diamon Ratchet SL
- 12 x 100 / 12 x 142 (F/R)
- Centerlock brake interface
- 18/24 (F/R) spoke depend
- 1319g (per set)
Bianchi Specialissima RC & Oltre RC Founder Version Builds
Together with the Scope Artech 6.A wheels, the Specialissima RC and Oltre RC Founder Editions see the restricted Blue Italia or Celeste Spectrum colorway choices. Each frames are utterly internally routed, with no further routing for non-electronic groupsets.
Geometry
Construct
Bianchi spec’d the 2 body choices with the identical top-of-the-line elements:
- Shifters: Shimano Dura Ace Di2 hydraulic disc brake for highway, ST-R9270, BR-R9270, for 160mm rotor
- Derailleur (rear): Shimano Dura Ace Di2 12sp, RD-R9250 CeramicSpeed cage, OSPW RS Alpha
- Derailleur (entrance): Shimano Dura Ace Di2 12sp, FD-R9250
- Crankset: THM-Carbones Clavicula SE Powermeter, BCD 110 mm, 5 bolts
- Chainrings: Carbon-Ti X-CarboRing 52x36T
- Cassette: Shimano Dura Ace 12sp, CS-R9200, 11-12-13-14-15-16-17-19-21-24-27-30T
- Chain: Shimano Dura Ace 12sp, CN-M9100
- Brakes: Shimano BR-R9270 Hydraulic disc
- Rotor: Carbon-Ti, X-Rotor SteelCarbon 3, Middle Lock, 160/140mm (F/R)
- Tire: Pirelli P ZERO Race RS TLR, 30-622, SmartEvo compound, Speedcore TLR expertise, 120 tpi
- Bar/stem: Bianchi Reparto Corse carbon built-in handlebar
- Seatpost: Bianchi Specialissima, full carbon, aero form, 20 mm offset size
- Saddle: Fizik Vento Argo 00 Adaptive, full carbon shell, adaptive padding expertise, carbon rails
The selection is yours on whether or not you need all-out highway pace (Oltre RC) or are searching for the right all-rounder (Specialissima RC).
Not only a bike. A “Bespoke Expertise”
To actually set these bikes excessive, Bianchi appears to be together with a “bespoke expertise” with every buy. That features a possibility to gather your bike on the pre-season coaching camp of Bianchi’s WorldTour staff in January with a meet & greet and experience with the staff. You’ll additionally discover proprietor’s playing cards to show your membership to the unique ‘Founder’s Membership’, a certificates of authenticity, knowledgeable bike bag to journey residence along with your bike, and a WorldTour Bianchi biking staff package.
And the value? It appears to be a kind of, if you need to ask… However you may register on the Bianchi website to get extra info when it turns into out there. In the event that they’re not already offered out.
