The lightest lugged road frame we've ever made

Between Bologna and Modena, the flat fields of the Po Valley begin to fold toward the Apennines, and along that gentle gradient lies a stretch of land that has shaped the world’s idea of speed. This is the Motor Valley, home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and Pagani. On a quiet morning, you can hear it before you see it: an engine note rising from a test track, fading between rows of poplars, returning a moment later a little sharper, a little faster. Generations of engineers here have given their working lives to a single pursuit, performance without compromise.
Motor Valley runs on a specific kind of obsession. Grams are counted, then counted again. Each material is chosen for a reason, placed where its properties matter most and removed wherever it adds nothing. The question on every workbench is always the same: how can this be made better?
A road bike asks that same question, and a rider feels every answer. Stiffness when you sprint out of a hairpin. Calm on a fast descent. Comfort still intact after five hours in the saddle. The ideal frame places each material exactly where it serves the ride, the principle that guides every racing chassis built a few kilometers from Modena’s historic center.
It shouldn’t surprise that the Modena project began with a fellow cyclist. The owner of an Italian carbon manufacturing facility, a lifelong rider and a tifoso of Giovanni Battaglin, approached us with the idea of working together. That conversation opened the door to an engineering team active in motorsport, and to methods rarely applied to handmade bicycles: structural calculation and load analysis borrowed from racing car development, and autoclave processes designed for components that face far greater forces than any road will ever impose.
Working with those engineers took us outside the usual framebuilding playbook. Titanium went where resilience and vibration damping matter most, forged carbon where stiffness and steering precision define the ride. A new kind of oversized lug was designed to join them. The frame that emerged still carries the Officina Battaglin signature: lugged construction, Italian manufacture from start to finish. But its performance belongs to a new category.