The 12 months was 1975. Fausto Bertoglio was racing the Giro d’Italia with the Jollj Ceramica crew on a Pinarello bicycle. In the long run, it could be the 26-year-old Italian’s first and solely Grand Tour win. The 1975 Giro d’Italia would even be the primary Grand Tour win for Pinarello Bicycles, and simply the beginning of the model’s 30 — and counting — Grand Tour victories thus far.
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of this historic victory and the start of the model’s profitable custom, Pinarello is producing the Dogma F Edizione Speciale. This particular version bike shall be ridden by the INEOS Grenadiers crew on stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday, Could twenty fourth. This stage was chosen particularly as a result of it begins in Pinarello’s dwelling metropolis of Treviso, simply outdoors of the model’s headquarters.
Pinarello President Fausto Pinarello stated: “We’re proud to mark such a landmark second in Pinarello’s historical past by launching the Dogma F Edizione Speciale. Fausto Bertoglio’s victory in 1975 was one among grit, willpower, and unimaginable panache, and his relentless assaults on the Stelvio helped earn him his victory in inconceivable circumstances.” He went on to say: “The Giro d’Italia is a part of our DNA too, and seeing the INEOS Grenadiers compete on this stunning bike on stage 14 – which begins proper outdoors our headquarters – shall be an equally particular second.
The most recent model of the Pinarello Dogma F is a superlight and aerodynamic carbon race bike from the longer term, and it bears little resemblance to the bike ridden to victory by Bertoglio 50 years in the past. However the fashionable superbike will get an Edizione Speciale paint scheme utilizing colours resembling the profitable Pinarello from 1975.
The particular version paint job additionally contains the letters GPT (Giovanni Pinarello Treviso) on the fork, commemorating the model’s founder and origins. A fiftieth anniversary decal on the highest tube marks the special day. And if the bike wasn’t already eye-catching and lust-worthy sufficient, the entire Dogma F Edezione Speciale bikes include custom-painted Princeton Wake wheels.
In accordance with Pinarello, this launch additionally marks the beginning of an ES (Edizione Speciale) line. The model shall be celebrating sure performances in its historical past with {custom} bikes provided in restricted portions.
Talking of restricted portions, solely 100 items of the Dogma F Edizione Speciale shall be accessible for buy by means of Pinarello sellers. It’s being bought as a whole bike or frame-only. Construct specs and pricing info weren’t offered, however it seems to be a Dura-Ace drivetrain and brakes within the photographs. If we needed to guess, it’s in all probability going to be fairly costly, given the value of the inventory Dogma F body and Princeton Wake wheels, including as much as a cool $10,100 on the naked minimal.
Nonetheless, should you’re eager on celebrating Pinarello’s fiftieth anniversary of its first Grand Tour win on the Giro d’Italia bikes, the Dogma F Edizione Speciale shall be on sale between Could twenty fourth and June fifteenth, 2025.
