Sannino Road Bike (54cm)
Born of necessity, this bike was hurriedly (but lovingly) pulled together for my entry in the Tour of Wessex.
Given that I was going to be racing against lightweight modern machinery, I picked a relatively young (just the 20 years old) frame and groupset to make my assault...
The frame is a NOS hand-built, lugged-steel roadie -unmarked, but believed to be from the hand of famed Italian builder Mauro Sannino. It was found in Turin and has all the correct details, including his trademark super-steep angles - ‘twitchy’ doesn’t even come close! A Gios fork, Cinelli Pinocchio stem and Nerve bars help to tame the lively front end...
The groupset is full NOS Dura-Ace 7410, including a svelte seatpost, beautiful headset and a truly spectacular crankset. We also had matching Dura-Ace bars, stem, pedals, clips and straps ready for the build, but a couple of lengthly test-rides persuaded me that modern contact points would be of benefit! Still got the Brooks leather treatment, of course...
Big thanks to Luke and Will at John’s Bikes for helping to pull this together in the limited time-scale.
Pics show the post-race scars...
Sannino Road Bike (54cm)
NOT FOR SALE
