It may be a 1978 frame with 90s Campagnolo components but this De Rosa Professional doesn’t look anything like a slapstick pastiche. Rather, in a world of overbuilt ‘gravel grinders’ and adventurers, it is the very picture of combined elegance and speed.
The head tube of Ugo De Rosa is emblazoned with a big heart, symbolizing the passion that he imbues into his frames. For over sixty years Ugo and, more recently, his sons, have been producing bicycles of the high standard that Italy is famous for, ridden to victory by some of the biggest names in…
Ugo De Rosa, another padre of the Italian racing bicycle tradition, celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday in January this year. The De Rosa business doesn’t show…
