good morning i'm on the way to italy for a series of business meetings and stuff this video may span
one day it may span two days it may span three i'm not quite sure i need to see the guys and
work out what's actually going on over the next couple of days but i'm starting off here with
daisy in the car on the way to the airport i just love travelling with a massive bike box
this is
that was just two short flights but it basically was a whole
day of traveling turned up in the dark last night now at the villa offices
and straight into the bike room where they have a room with one of every single bike that they make
here bike box has been safely deposited upstairs with the mechanics i'll be sad to see the rave go
but rest assured i'm going to be taking a bike home in replacement of it unfortunately i can't
really show you today what that's going to be because really are going to be making something
about it on their own channel first it will be worth the wait though i promise
check out this one here so this is a fairly new release from villa called the gada and it was the
instigator of many arguments on twitter because it's one of the few performance bikes released
recently that has come out with rim brakes still long live the rim brake other cool stuff that
they've got in here e-bikes that don't look like e-bikes the perfect crime i'm serious i've got to
get myself one of these because uh i'm documenting bike rides now you know so i've got to get the
shots and carry all the heavy camera equipment lots of zero slrs this is a spanish national champ
one louis leon sanchez's to be exact i don't know if this is one that they had as a spare
or his actual one because it looks very new i always think how crazy it is sponsoring a team
like astana how many bikes they have to have prepared and ready for the team if someone
becomes national champ they've got to paint them up and probably supply more than one bike as well
and tt bikes and if they end up in a certain jersey at a grand tour that's a lot of bikes
and a lot of painting that's down a team edition zero slr really cool paint job on
this might have been inspired slightly when i designed my xero slr and then did some riding
with the team i'm sure they won't mind if one bite goes missing right they've got loads
jimmy nichols actual bike oh hang on no this is pantani so pantani's actual bike with
pirate saddle because his nickname was the pirate when i approached this bike two minutes ago
i thought this was the one that i had ridden it's actually not this is not carbon fibre the
other one that i rode a couple of years back now must have been from a couple of years later the
most ridiculous thing about this bike though the gearing look at the state of this 53 on the front
then look at the size of the cassette pantani would erase these up mountains
nine speed maybe i can sneak a ride on that one one day i remember the carbon fiber one i rode
was so much better than i thought it was gonna be considering it was like first era of ever using
carbon fiber to make a bicycle frame out of after some quick research on google this bike is in fact
from 1997. pantani won multiple mounting stages on this bike with that gearing and set a record time
of help de wiz hands down the coolest bike here 73 years old the first example of a romato finish
this bike was raised by a guy called fiorenzo magni he was the captain of the villia racing team
at the time won the giro d'italia tour of flanders and he did it over three years racing this
steel frame with a copper finishing to it that later became a very recognizable paint job that
vilia do on their bikes called romato which you can see on numerous bikes in here like this
superleggera this is like a modern day tribute to the steel frame that you can still buy get
a little tiny dinky cassette maybe i've just gone soft with my uh 28 hey back to modern day
i've actually found 12 speed dura ace which i haven't seen yet it's very nice it's black
and 12 speed maybe i'm seeing things but this mech looks like it has a very long cage on it
which previously durace would just come with like a medium cage there wasn't many options
they've also quite drastically changed the shape of the hoods it definitely feels quite different
from the old dura ace nice but different this is all fitted to a philante slr which you will
have seen on my channel a few months ago or maybe even a year ago maybe even longer my perception
of time is definitely all screwed up because of covered anyone else having the same experience i
keep walking past this bike and you know what it's really growing on me the idea of having an e-bike
flat bar it's like the ultimate bike imagine that commuting home from newcastle
uphill the hallway e-bikes are the future and the solution to lots of traffic based problems
lovely day out here in italy today but on the plus side time for some lunch pizza lunch
complete disaster they've run our pizza
sorry
material is loving life he also loves being on camera
lunch has been eaten the next few hours are going to be spent in this room
having some top secret meetings so i'll see you guys in a minute
that's an expensive pen yeah
i'll look after it just temporarily yeah
so that was a very productive day business-wise very productive day because
i acquired this pen special edition romato it was a shame however to have not been able to ride a
bike because one it's absolutely brilliant to ride bikes in this area for viewers who may not
have seen my previous episodes based here this is the venito region of italy so near venice and
basically at the base of montegrappa which is an amazing mountain you can ride on your road bike
but it's been absolutely shocking weather and i don't have a bike now because i dropped it off
upstairs fingers crossed though i can borrow something either tomorrow or the next day and
get out for a ride in the meantime we're going out and i think there might be actual pizza involved
i don't think there's a shortage around the whole of italy well i hope