The early spring trip to visit Dario Pegoretti has become a Mosquito tradition over the last few years, this trip marking our 5th visit to Dario’s Caldonazzo workshop. However this year was a bit different as we also visited the Columbus factory and Tiziano Zullo in his workshop on the edge of Lake Garda.

The Columbus facility sits in an industrial landscape in the Milanese suburbs and is home to not only Columbus tube engineering but also warehousing and R&D for Cinelli. To learn more about Columbus and its’owner Anton Columbo take a look at the the latest issue (17) of Rouleur where you will find a great article and interview by Editor Guy Andrews.
We were shown round the factory by Lodovico (Special Projects Manager!) - lots of shiny tubing, impressive machinery - the usual bike factory stuff. It was interesting to hear how closely Columbus work with Dario Pegoretti on developing tubing, the man is held in great respect.

After the factroy stuf, time for a bike ride. We had brought along a number of journalists and Lodovico kindly supplied us all with carbon Cinelli’s for a quick spin around the local lanes. Very pleasant it was too, early spring sunshine and gentle banter (for the first half hour, after that things got a bit more serious…..).

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